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Check DNS with DIG command

4th June 2019Miscellaneousbind, bind9, dig, dns, dns check, dns diagnosticManish

General Query

dig @ns2.dnsserver.com TXT domain.com +short

With the +short it will show only the value of the queried field(s). Without +short it will show the full result

Querying CNAME records

dig @ns2.dnsserver.com CNAME 4xugchxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx3eread3uc._domainkey.domain.com +short

This will return the value of that particular CNAME field.

Querying particular entry

dig @ns2.dnsserver.com TXT domain.com +short
dig @ns2.dnsserver.com NS domain.com +short

Good DNS Query Tools

9th January 2019Miscellaneousdns, dns check, dns query, dsn toolsManish

http://dns.squish.net/

Check CNAME or TXT records

9th January 2019Miscellaneouscheck cname, check txt, cname, dig, dns, dns check, dns query, txtManish

If the CNAME or TXT records are not displayed with normally available online tools, then they can be found using

dig TXT _axxxxxxxs.kolkataonweb.com +short
OR
dig CNAME 4xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxc._domainkey.kolkataonweb.com +short

(mention the keys that you want to lookup)

If everything is fine then the answer section will return the record (like below)

;; ANSWER SECTION:
xxxxxxxxxxxx 3584 IN CNAME xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

The +short can be omitted or +all can be used or nothing can be given