Adrián Bíro

Just Use Dig

Here is what you should now to use dig tool.

Search for particular record, default is A.

dig CNAME cloudflare.com

Make reverse lookup.

$ dig -x 104.16.132.229 
...
$ dig ptr 229.132.16.104.in.adde.arpa
...

Use specific DNS server and show shorter output.

dig @9.9.9.9 +short cloudflare.com

Traces how the domain it’s resolved, with TCP when querying name servers. The default behavior is to use UDP.

dig +trace +tcp cloudflare.com