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Free NS lookup

See which nameservers are authoritative for a domain.

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A nameserver change is an incidentTenium can watch NS records and alert before a delegation change takes the whole zone with it.

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What NS records are

NS records name the servers that hold the zone. They are published both in the zone and in the parent (the registry). This check shows what a public resolver returns, which is usually the set from the parent after it has cached.

Two servers, minimum

A zone should list at least two nameservers on independent networks. One NS is a single point of failure for every other record.

Related checks

SOA lookup · DNS lookup · A lookup · DNS monitoring

Command-line equivalent

dig +short example.com NS