DNS Lookup

Our DNS lookup efficiently retrieves the most common DNS records, including A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, NS, and PTR records, accurately against your entered domain by querying DNS servers. Simply enter your domain below.

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DNS Lookup  - Check DNS Records for Any Domain

Our DNS lookup tool helps you check DNS records for any domain. You can find records such as the A record, AAAA record, CNAME record, etc., with just a few clicks. Our tool can be very helpful for network administrators and web developers to manage domains and websites.

Our DNS record checker is accurate, easy to use, and free to access. You can check all the records across different servers, including Google, Cloudflare, Yandex, Quad9, and OpenDNS.

How to Perform DNS Record Lookup Using Our Tool

The process of looking up DNS records through our tool is quite simple. To perform the DNS records lookup, take the following steps.

  • Open the DNS lookup tool.

  • Enter the domain name that you want to check in the provided space.

  • Select the server by clicking on the drop-down menu.

  • Choose which DNS record you want to check from the provided options. (If you want to run the DNS check for all records, simply click on “ALL.”)

  • Click on the “Lookup DNS” button to start the process.

  • After a few seconds, the records for the domain will be provided. You can click the Download Results button to save the information to your device’s storage.
Note: There is a + sign in front of each record. You can click on this button to view the raw data for the record, such as ID, flags, query, status, and so on.

What Makes Our DNS Lookup Stand Out

Check Multiple Records in a Single Click

One of the best features of our online DNS lookup tool is its ability to check multiple types of records in a single click. You don’t have to run the process over and over again for the different records.

This feature makes our tool particularly useful for people who have to diagnose and troubleshoot problems with DNS records. They can check all the records at once.

Here are the types of DNS records that you can check with our tool:

  •  A Record
  • AAAA Record
  • CNAME Record
  •  MX Record
  • NS Record
  • PTR Record
  • SRV Record
  • SOA Record
  • TXT Record
  • CAA Record
  • DS Record
  • DNSKEY Record

Choose Between Different DNS Servers

Another great feature of our DNS record check tool is that it supports various DNS servers. You can check your domain’s records against different servers, such as:

  • Google: This is the DNS server managed by Google LLC. It can be found on different IP addresses, the most popular of which is 8.8.8.8.
  • Yandex: This is the DNS service owned and managed by Yandex, a Russian search engine similar to Google.
  •  Quad9: Quad9 is a DNS server owned and managed by Quad9 Foundation, a not-for-profit Swiss organization founded by IBM. This DNS server can be found on the IP address 9.9.9.9, among a few others.
  • OpenDNS: OpenDNS is an online DNS service provider, and their DNS server goes by the same name.
  • Cloudflare: Cloudflare also provides a DNS service to help people deploy and manage their cloud solutions. The Cloudflare DNS server can be found at the address 1.1.1.1.

Download Records for Future Reference

Our DNS record lookup also provides a downloading feature that you can use to save the DNS records for future reference. Once the DNS records are provided, click on the button that says “Download Records.”

A drop-down menu will appear, where you can select from the four options:

  • Download in Markdown
  • Download in Text form
  • Copy in Markdown
  • Copy in Text form

What is DNS?

DNS (Domain Name System) is responsible for translating human-readable domain names (such as Google.com) to IP addresses (such as 8.8.8.8) so that the websites, devices, and other online services associated with them (the domain names) can be accessed.

Just as humans use phone books to find the number of a particular person, DNS works to check the IP address of a particular domain. 

Since computers require IP addresses to communicate with one another over a network, it is necessary for domain names to be converted into their respective IP addresses using DNS.

What is a DNS record?

DNS records can be understood as instructions added to a DNS server for a particular domain. Different types of DNS records are added to a server against a domain. These records perform various tasks, such as defining the domain's IP address or the recipient's email server.

DNS records are added as textual information. Some records only contain numerical values, while others contain data in TXT format.

What are the Uses of our DNS records lookup?

Checking Proper Domain Configuration

Our DNS lookup tool can be used by network administrators and website managers to check all of the DNS records of a domain at once. This can help them confirm whether the records have been correctly configured or not.

Instead of navigating to the DNS settings every time and clicking through the maze of menus just to view the records, you can do it quickly and easily using our online tool. 

Troubleshooting and Error Detection

If there are any problems with the domain that you suspect to be originating from the DNS records, such as issues in email deliverability or domain aliasing, you can use our DNS record checker to quickly run a check. Our tool will show you all the details of the DNS records, and you can go through them to see if they are causing the error.

Finding Useful Information About a Website

Running a DNS lookup online against a website can help you learn many useful details about it. For example, you can learn the IP address of the website, the hosting service it is using, whether it has PTR records set up or not, and so on.

Even if you don’t own the website, you can simply enter the domain name into the tool, and all the records will be given.

FAQs

How to do a DNS record lookup?

A DNS record lookup can be performed easily with the help of our online DNS lookup tool. However, if the need arises, you can also use the command line interface to run the process.

What are the two types of DNS lookup?

There are two types of DNS lookup. One is the normal forward DNS lookup in which the IP address of a domain is queried so that the browser can load it. The other type is reverse DNS lookup. A reverse DNS lookup is the process in which the domain name is discovered based on a provided IP address.

Can I disable DNS on the router?

Yes, you can disable DNS in your router by visiting your router settings. Depending on the ISP that you’re using and the firmware installed in your router, the exact method to disable DNS can be different. However, there is typically an option provided to disable the DNS resolution process.