Check ability to resolve domain names
- Tamás Utasi
- Andy Clowe
Owned by Tamás Utasi
Following instruction on this page you can test if your host can resolve domain names (such as patientsknowbest.com) to an IP address.
On the machine that runs the service run below command:
nslookup my.patientsknowbest.comThe command will query a name server for our address. Which name server is picked depends on the confguration of your system/network.
TIP: Run:
nslookup my.patientsknowbest.com sonia.ns.cloudflare.comornslookup my.patientsknowbest.com shane.ns.cloudflare.com
to query one of the authorative nameserver for patientsknowbest.com.
Expected success output
Server: 127.0.0.53
Address: 127.0.0.53#53
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: my.patientsknowbest.com
Address: 35.246.122.93The Address: 35.246.122.93bit indicate that the domain name can can be resolved to an IP address.
Expected failure outputs
Time out
nslookup my.patientsknowbest.com
;; communications error to 127.0.0.53#53: timed outMissing record
Missing domain