kdig

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Advanced DNS lookup utility.

Examples (5)

Lookup the IP(s) associated with a hostname (A records)

kdig example.com

Specify a specific DNS server to query (e.g. Google DNS)

kdig example.com @8.8.8.8

Query a specific DNS record type associated with a given domain name

kdig example.com A|AAAA|NS|SOA|DNSKEY|ANY

Lookup the IP(s) associated with a hostname (A records) using DNS over TLS (DoT)

kdig -d @8.8.8.8 +tls-ca +tls-host=dns.google example.com

Lookup the IP(s) associated with a hostname (A records) using DNS over HTTPS (DoH)

kdig -d @1.1.1.1 +https +tls-hostname=1dot1dot1dot1.cloudflare-dns.com example.com