8194460 Look up domains whois/dns using terminal - DC Blog

Look up domains whois/dns using terminal

Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Development Tutorials Bash

Terminal is really powerful, I’m often looking up who owns a domain or what IP address a domain has or even it’s A/MX records that are all simple to do with the following commands.

Ping a domain to determine the IP address:

ping dcblog.dev

outputs:

PING dcblog.dev (104.31.82.117): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 104.31.82.117: icmp_seq=0 ttl=57 time=11.713 ms
64 bytes from 104.31.82.117: icmp_seq=1 ttl=57 time=10.418 ms
64 bytes from 104.31.82.117: icmp_seq=2 ttl=57 time=10.302 ms

Press ctrl + c to stop the ping running.

Look up the whois information for a domain:

whois daveismyname.com

Find what A records a domain has:

host -t A daveismyname.com

Find what MX records a domain has:

host -t MX daveismyname.com

 

Subscribe to my newsletter for the latest updates on my books and digital products.

Search DC Blog

Find posts, tutorials, and resources quickly.

Searching...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Senior Software Engineer

View all posts

Subscribe to our Newsletter

Subscribe to my newsletter for the latest updates on my books and digital products.

Related Articles

Laravel download base64 encoded files

Laravel download base64 encoded files

Apr 10, 2019
How to rebuild search indexes on a table.

How to rebuild search indexes on a table.

Sep 8, 2021
Switching between PHP versions with Homebrew

Switching between PHP versions with Homebrew

Dec 1, 2019

Categories

You Might Also Like