Do you need to find DNS address of a website from command prompt? Learn how to use Windows command nslookup
to find DNS addresses.
Run below command to find DNS address.
nslookup DomainName
An example command below that finds DNS address for this website.
C:\>nslookup www.windows-commandline.com Server: UnKnown Address: 192.168.0.1 Non-authoritative answer: Name: www.windows-commandline.com Addresses: 2400:cb00:2048:1::6819:550c 2400:cb00:2048:1::6819:540c 104.25.84.12 104.25.85.12 C:\>
As you can see the command displays both IPv4 and IPv6 DNS addresses.
Also Read: How to flush DNS cache from Windows command prompt.
You can find the email server in a similar way:
nslookup
> set q=mx
> DomainName
Server: one.one.one.one
Address: 1.1.1.1
windows-commandline.com
primary name server = olga.ns.cloudflare.com
responsible mail addr = dns.cloudflare.com
serial = 2029260140
refresh = 10000 (2 hours 46 mins 40 secs)
retry = 2400 (40 mins)
expire = 604800 (7 days)
default TTL = 3600 (1 hour)
>
set q=mx
> DomainName
Server: one.one.one.one
Address: 1.1.1.1
windows-commandline.com
primary name server = olga.ns.cloudflare.com
responsible mail addr = dns.cloudflare.com
serial = 2029260140
refresh = 10000 (2 hours 46 mins 40 secs)
retry = 2400 (40 mins)
expire = 604800 (7 days)
default TTL = 3600 (1 hour)