There may be occasions when you wish to query a name server directly. I usually do it when debugging DNS servers configuration for a domain that is experiencing difficulties.
I recommend that anyone running DNS services (in cluster mode or standalone) to looks into the following tool. It is very useful, especially when you’re debugging.
My tool of choice (available on Linux, OS X and BSD) is dig
dig has a feature which allows you to specify a name server along with the record you want to query.
For example, DNS servers for google.com are:
ns1.google.com
ns2.google.com
ns3.google.com
ns4.google.com
We may query a random NS by issuing the following command:
dig google.com
We can query a particular server directly by doing the following:
dig google.com @ns1.google.com
Feel free to open a support ticket if you would like us to perform it for you.
