# How does one find the DNS address of their website?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-does-one-find-the-dns-address-of-their-website/112516>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [August 20, 2007, 3:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-does-one-find-the-dns-address-of-their-website/112516 "2007-08-20T15:41:13Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 20, 2007, 3:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-does-one-find-the-dns-address-of-their-website/112516/1 "2007-08-20T15:41:13Z")

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I hope this question is appropriate for this forum and hope it is an  
easy one? When I look at my, or any domain in WHOIS I find where it is  
being hosted (if any) but not what the DNS address is of the domain  
page?  
The reason I am asking this question is that I wish to point many of  
my distinct domains to one of my domain’s and then use a CNAME to  
point this to the hosting service’s address.  
Thank you,  
Kathy

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**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2007, 8:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-does-one-find-the-dns-address-of-their-website/112516/2 "2007-08-20T20:33:04Z")

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in windows xp, some where i red that you can use nslookup(name\_server  
lookup)

open command prompt type nslookup and enter  
it give a subprompt then type name of the website., example…  
([www.example.com](http://www.example.com))  
it if there is host with that name.

P.s: Sorry, if it din’t help, That’s all i know.

On Aug 20, 6:40 pm, “removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)

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**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2007, 8:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-does-one-find-the-dns-address-of-their-website/112516/3 "2007-08-20T20:47:06Z")

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removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid wrote:

> I hope this question is appropriate for this forum and hope it is an  
> easy one? When I look at my, or any domain in WHOIS I find where it is  
> being hosted (if any) but not what the DNS address is of the domain  
> page?  
> The reason I am asking this question is that I wish to point many of  
> my distinct domains to one of my domain’s and then use a CNAME to  
> point this to the hosting service’s address.  
> Thank you,  
> Kathy

Hi Kathy, you can use sites like [dnsstuff.com](http://dnsstuff.com) to find the name servers  
for your domain or if you are on a \*nix or os x platform you can run  
‘dig [mydomain.com](http://mydomain.com) ns’ which will return the name servers.

Hope this helps.