I think its safe to say that DNS is part of the fabric of the internet. I don’t remember how many times I had (or helped someone with) issues with public DNS, but I can assure you that it has been a lot. DNS controls everything about your domain, from the correct resolution of your website to where your email should go.
My two favorite sites for troubleshooting public DNS issues are www.dnsreport.com and www.dnsstuff.com. These two sites have saved me in numerous occassions and whenever somebody is having some DNS issue they are my first stop to help determine the problem. I encourage you to familiarize yourself with each site… I can assure you that you will find them as useful as me. Did I mentioned that both sites are free? 🙂
Ok. So, those sites are old news for you? Well… I have something here that you might like. I “borrowed” an idea from Susan’s blog and created a registry file that adds a set of keywords to the IE address bar so you can use this site even faster.
Right click here, select “Save As” and save it to your desktop renaming the extension to .reg (alternatively you can just click the link to see what we are adding to the registry). Double click on the file and allow it to be imported into the registry. That’s it! You can now open IE and use the following keywords to do amazing stuff…
DNS somedomain.com – Generates a DNSReport for that domain
A something.somedomain.com – A record for that hostname
MX somedomain.com – MX record(s) for that domain
PTR x.x.x.x or something.somedomain.com – Reverse DNS records for that IP/Hostname
WHOIS somedomain.com – Registration information about a domain
So, do you think this is useful? Comment below and let me know what you think!
Very useful, thanks 😀
I couldn’t get this to work. I added the key into the registry but when I go into IE and type DNS domain.com into the address bar I get a page cannot be displayed error message.
Thanks, good work.
dnsstuff rocks.
I am a recruiter with a technical staffing firm. I am currently working on a job opportunity for a Sharepoint Developer in the St. Louis, MO area. This person will be the sole Sharepoint resource for this company. Day-to-day activities would include implementing Sharepoint and the applications that go with them at various sites. Other technologies that are a necessity are VB.Net and SQL Server. If anyone is interested in a new position or could help me by pointing me in the right direction I would really appreciate the help. You can contact me at acreighton@apexsystemsinc.com or 314.822.9700. Thanks in advance for all your help.
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This is cool. Thank you very much. I will use this alot.
cannot download the .reg 🙁
I would love to use this but my firewall will not allow me to download a .reg extension. Can you offer an alternative, other changing my firewall settings?
The link to the file with the reg hack “here” no longer works… too bad!
5WIfsd
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