How To Find Out What My DNS Servers Address

Linux / UNIX Find Out Dns Server Addresses

The resolver is a set of routines in the C library that provide access to the Internet Domain Name System (DNS). The resolver configuration file contains information that is read by the resolver routines the first time they are invoked by a process.

Commend to find out your dns servers ip address under Linux/BSD/Unixish system

To see your DNS server address type following command as shell prompt:
$ cat /etc/resolv.conf
OR
$ less /etc/resolv.conf

nameserver 203.54.1.20
nameserver 203.54.1.21

Where,

  • nameserver 203.54.1.20 : It is Name server IP address (in dot notation) of a name server that the resolver should query. All your application will use this IP address for DNS purpose.
under Windows
Just open command prompt and type
ipconfig/all

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