Public dnsq Access

This is glucose.sugarmotor.net at 64.114.83.92 located in Vancouver, Canada. Run your dnsq queries from here.

What's dnsq, anyway? dnsq t n s sends a non-recursive DNS query to DNS server s for records of type t under the domain name n. It prints the results in a human-readable format.

Let's say your DNS server is at IP address 4.5.6.7 Let's say you want to know what your DNS server says about the IP address for the server with domain name 'quark.example.com'. Then you fill in A as the Type, quark.example.com as the Name, and 4.5.6.7 for the Server. See other possible types below.

The raw button gives the results as plain text which may be used as in

lynx -dump "http://stephan.sugarmotor.org/cgi-bin/dnsq.cgi?t=A&n=name&s=server"

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Type values according to section 3.2.2 of RFC 1035

Note that these types are a subset of "QTYPEs".

TYPE            value and meaning
A               1 a host address
NS              2 an authoritative name server
MD              3 a mail destination (Obsolete - use MX)
MF              4 a mail forwarder (Obsolete - use MX)
CNAME           5 the canonical name for an alias
SOA             6 marks the start of a zone of authority
MB              7 a mailbox domain name (EXPERIMENTAL)
MG              8 a mail group member (EXPERIMENTAL)
MR              9 a mail rename domain name (EXPERIMENTAL)
NULL            10 a null RR (EXPERIMENTAL)
WKS             11 a well known service description
PTR             12 a domain name pointer
HINFO           13 host information
MINFO           14 mailbox or mail list information
MX              15 mail exchange
TXT             16 text strings