Test DNS servers and settings for a domain name

 http://dnscheck.pingdom.com/

Test DNS servers and settings for a domain name

 

 

About the DNS check test

The DNS Check in Pingdom Tools will check your DNS health and help you find errors, and verify that you domain name has been set up correctly.

The DNS check will automatically find out which DNS servers are used by the domain name you specify, then perform a number of tests on them to make sure that the domain name is properly set up and that those DNS servers are responding in a consistent and correct manner.

There is also a DNS troubleshooting guide to help you interpret the potential errors and status messages for your DNS check.

We hope you will find this test helpful. If you got any questions regarding the test you can read about it here, about the test.

Very briefly about the DNS

The Domain Name System (abbreviated DNS) is simply put like the phone book of the Internet. It helps us, the users, keep track of website names like pingdom.com or google.com, rather than having to remember the IP-address that the computer needs to start any form of communication.

 

Where is my domain name routing?

When troubleshooting a website issue, if you were to start at step 1, it would be checking to make sure that your domain name is registered and that the DNS is routing your domain name to the correct web server.
When checking the routing of a domain name, most professional use tools such as dig / ping / tracert. For the average user that does not perform this type of test on a regular basis, connecting the dots to see how a domain name is routing can be quite difficult.
To help everyone, we've created a tool that performs the necessary lookups that check where a domain name is routing, and it graphically displays this information for easy review.
Please enter a domain name below and click submit to see where your domain's website and email traffic is being routed to on the internet.

(Click the image below to view a larger version)

http://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/tools/visual-domain-routing?domain=google.com