dnstracer

The dnstracer command determines where a DNS gets its information from. More information: https://manned.org/dnstracer.

• Find out where your local DNS got the information on www.example.com:

dnstracer www.example.com

• Start with a specific DNS that you already know:

dnstracer -s dns.example.org www.example.com

• Only query IPv4 servers:

dnstracer -4 www.example.com

• Retry each request 5 times on failure:

dnstracer -r 5 www.example.com

• Display all steps during execution:

dnstracer -v www.example.com

• Display an overview of all received answers after execution:

dnstracer -o www.example.com