Wednesday, December 09, 2009

Find Out if Your DNS Server is Working

It’s relatively easy to configure our router to use an alternate public DNS service, but how do we know that the DNS server is indeed working?

 

In Windows, open a command line prompt, and type:

nslookup google.com

 

In Linux, open a terminal window and type:

host google.com

 

At the end of the result, you should be able to see the IP address of the site you queried, and it means your DNS server is indeed working.

 

(via Smarterware.org)

 

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