How to Verify DNS Records

After a site migration and other similar situations one may be curious if their DNS has propogated properly.

On Mac OS X please try the below.

Command$: dig @ns1.xenserv.net a xenserv.net

; <<>> DiG 9.6-ESV-R4-P3 <<>> @ns1.xenserv.net a xenserv.net

; (1 server found) ;; global options: +cmd

;; Got answer:

;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 60837

;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2

;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available

;; QUESTION SECTION: ;xenserv.net. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION: xenserv.net. 14400 IN A 66.55.72.34

;; AUTHORITY SECTION: xenserv.net. 86400 IN NS ns2.xenserv.net. xenserv.net. 86400 IN NS ns1.xenserv.net.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: ns1.xenserv.net. 14400 IN A 208.82.117.133 ns2.xenserv.net. 14400 IN A 66.55.72.34

;; Query time: 783 msec ;; SERVER: 208.82.117.133#53(208.82.117.133)

;; WHEN: Thu Feb 9 09:52:48 2012 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 113

Unix Platforms (Generic) You'll require the distributions basic networking tools and possibly install "dig".

On Microsoft Windows Platforms we cannot directly. Please download and properly install This if you want the Dig utility on Windows.

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