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DNS Inspector

Looks up every common DNS record type for a hostname in parallel — A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, TXT, NS, SOA, CAA, and SRV — plus PTR (reverse DNS) automatically when you enter an IP address instead of a hostname. Queries run server-side against Cloudflare's public 1.1.1.1 resolver (DNS-over-HTTPS) since browsers have no API to run raw DNS queries themselves — this tool requires a live network request, unlike most of this site. Nothing you look up is logged or stored.

A note on scope

Queries go through Cloudflare's own public DoH resolver, not necessarily the same resolver your own device/network uses — results can differ slightly from a local nslookup/dig during DNS propagation windows, or if a domain uses split-horizon DNS (different answers for internal vs. external queries). SRV records only return something if you search the exact service-formatted name (e.g. _sip._tcp.example.com) — most plain domains simply don't have one. See also the Email Header Analyzer for tracing a message's delivery path, and TLS Certificate Inspector for inspecting a live server certificate.