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Dig, the domain information grouper, is a tool that sends DNS queries to servers and prints the replies. I think most network engineers find it more useful than nslookup, which has now be depricated by ISC, anyway.

The Web form below uses a Perl script to make DNS queries. It's output is similar to Dig, but not identical, since it's purely Perl-based, so that it works on Windows systems that don't have Dig. If it doesn't work, try the original version at freesoft.org. Dig is available as part of the Bind distribution.

Domain Name: Class:
Nameserver: Type:
Recursion Enabled Authoritative Answer Only

$ dig @172.30.0.2 www.freesoft.org A IN


;; query( www.freesoft.org A IN )

;; udp send [172.30.0.2]:53

;; reply from [172.30.0.2] 140 bytes
;; HEADER SECTION
;;	id = 57553
;;	qr = 1	aa = 0	tc = 0	rd = 1	opcode = QUERY
;;	ra = 1	z  = 0	ad = 0	cd = 0	rcode  = NOERROR
;;	qdcount = 1	ancount = 5	nscount = 0	arcount = 0
;;	do = 0

;; QUESTION SECTION (1 record)
;; www.freesoft.org.	IN	A

;; ANSWER SECTION (5 records)
www.freesoft.org.	300	IN	CNAME	dueu8q3q1ezfh.cloudfront.net.
dueu8q3q1ezfh.cloudfront.net.	60	IN	A	18.165.83.39
dueu8q3q1ezfh.cloudfront.net.	60	IN	A	18.165.83.54
dueu8q3q1ezfh.cloudfront.net.	60	IN	A	18.165.83.71
dueu8q3q1ezfh.cloudfront.net.	60	IN	A	18.165.83.96

;; AUTHORITY SECTION (0 records)

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION (0 records)


;; errorstring: NOERROR
;; query status: NOERROR


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