Check DNS records for any domain — A, AAAA, MX, TXT, CNAME, NS, SOA, CAA, PTR. Powered by Cloudflare DNS-over-HTTPS.
The DNS Lookup tool fetches the live DNS records behind any domain — A, AAAA, MX, TXT, CNAME, NS, SOA, CAA, and PTR — and shows them with their TTL values in a clean, copyable layout.
When you enter a domain and hit Lookup, the tool sends a query for each selected record type to Cloudflare's public DNS-over-HTTPS resolver (cloudflare-dns.com). These are genuine network requests made from your browser, so the answers reflect what Cloudflare's resolver currently sees — not a cached snapshot stored here. You can toggle which record types to fetch using the tabs, and every value returned can be copied with a single click. Because the lookups run against an external resolver rather than your computer's local DNS settings, results stay consistent regardless of how your own machine or router is configured. People use it to:
Each record is shown alongside its TTL, the time a resolver is allowed to cache it before re-checking, which helps you predict how long a change will take to spread. The tool is free, requires no account, and queries domains read-only — it never modifies any DNS records. For authoritative configuration changes you still need access to your domain registrar or DNS host, but for quickly seeing what the internet currently resolves for a name, this gives you an instant answer.
example.com) — any https:// prefix or path is stripped automatically.Queries are sent over HTTPS to Cloudflare (cloudflare-dns.com), so your local resolver isn't used.
Cached records (TTL) at intermediate resolvers continue to serve the old answer until they expire. Check your domain's TTL in the SOA record.
MX (mail server), plus TXT records for SPF and DKIM, and a TXT record for DMARC. CAA records help control which CAs can issue certs.
An A record maps a domain to an IPv4 address, and an AAAA record maps it to an IPv6 address. A CNAME record does not point at an IP at all — it makes one name an alias for another name, so the resolver follows it to find the eventual A or AAAA record.
MX records tell other mail servers where to deliver email for the domain, ranked by a priority number where lower wins. TXT records hold free-form text and are widely used for email authentication such as SPF, DKIM, and DMARC, as well as domain-ownership verification for various services.
TTL stands for time to live, the number of seconds a resolver is allowed to cache a record before fetching it again. A low TTL means changes spread quickly but generates more lookups, while a high TTL improves performance at the cost of slower propagation. This tool displays each record's TTL beside its value.
This is DNS propagation. Resolvers around the world cache old answers until their TTL expires, so a change you make can take anywhere from a few minutes to a day or more to be seen globally. Because this tool queries Cloudflare's resolver directly, it often shows the updated record sooner than a resolver still serving a cached copy.