Live checker
DNS record checker
Look up a domain's live DNS records with their TTLs. Queries run from your browser against Cloudflare's resolver (1.1.1.1) over DNS-over-HTTPS — nothing passes through our server.
Record types:
What the records mean
- A / AAAA
- The IPv4 (
A) and IPv6 (AAAA) addresses the domain points to. - CNAME
- An alias pointing one name at another. A name with a CNAME can't also have other records, so a lookup for
Aoften returns the CNAME plus the resolved address. - MX
- Mail servers, each with a preference number — lower is tried first.
- TXT
- Free-form text, used for SPF, DKIM, domain verification and more. Long values are split into chunks at the protocol level; they're re-joined here.
- NS
- The authoritative name servers for the domain.
- SOA
- The "start of authority" — primary name server, admin contact and the zone's refresh/retry/expiry timers.
- CAA
- Which certificate authorities are allowed to issue certificates for the domain.
About TTL and propagation
TTL (time to live) is how many seconds a resolver may cache a record. After you change DNS, the old value can linger anywhere up to its previous TTL. This tool asks Cloudflare's resolver directly, so it reflects what 1.1.1.1 currently has cached — another resolver may still serve a stale answer until its own cache expires.
Sources & references
- DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) JSON APICloudflare
- An introduction to DNS recordsCloudflare
- RFC 1035 — Domain NamesIETF