DNS Lookup

Diagnostics > DNS Lookup performs simple forward and reverse DNS queries. These queries obtain information about an IP address or hostname and also test the DNS servers configured on the firewall (DNS Server Settings).

To perform a DNS Lookup:

  • Navigate to Diagnostics > DNS Lookup

  • Enter a Hostname or IP address to query

  • Click fa-search Lookup

The page displays the results of the DNS query along with supporting information and options.

DNS servers included in testing

The page will query a specific set of DNS servers. This set depends upon the DNS Server Settings under System > General.

The page will test against 127.0.0.1 if the DNS Resolver or DNS Forwarder are active and the DNS Resolution Behavior setting is not set to ignore local DNS.

The page will test each of the DNS Servers from the list at System > General.

The page will also test DNS servers from dynamic WANs if DNS Server Override is set and the firewall has obtained servers from dynamic sources.

Note

The DNS Resolver mode does not impact the behavior of this test. Even in resolver mode the individual DNS servers are tested as described above.

Results

The Results panel contains addresses returned by the DNS query along with the record type.

Underneath the results is a table containing the resolution Timings per server. This shows how fast each of the configured DNS servers responded to the specified query, or if they never responded.

The More Information panel contains links to ping and traceroute functions on the firewall for this host.

Aliases

The GUI can also create a firewall alias from the results of the DNS Lookup query.

Click fa-plus Add alias to create an alias containing the results of the query.

The name of the alias is the text entered for the DNS query but with . characters replaced by _. For example, a DNS lookup for example.com results in an alias named example_com.

If an alias already exists with that name, the button is labeled Update Alias instead. That version of the button will replace the contents of the existing alias with the current results of the DNS lookup.