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Ask a public DNS resolver, or any public address, for a record, live, from the isitdns seat. Returns the answer, the flags, the rcode, Extended DNS Errors and the latency in the shape dig prints, plus the JSON.
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| name | string | yes | The name to ask for, e.g. example.com or _dmarc.example.com |
| type | string | no | Record type: A, AAAA, MX, TXT, NS, SOA, CNAME, DS, DNSKEY, CAA, SRV, HTTPS, SVCB, PTR, or TYPE<n> |
| resolver | string | no | A board resolver id (cloudflare, google, quad9, opendns, adguard, cleanbrowsing, controld, quad9-unfiltered, adguard-family, cleanbrowsing-family, adguard-unfiltered, opendns-familyshield, nextdns, cloudflare-malware, cloudflare-family, mullvad-base, dns4eu-protective), a registry alias such as 8.8.8.8 or dns.google, "all" for every public resolver side by side, or any public IP address |
| transport | string | no | DoH (RFC 8484 wire format), DoT on 853, Do53 over TCP, or Do53 over UDP. udp53 is the transport the Cloudflare edge cannot run, so it is measured from our own probe off Cloudflare (each result says which seat measured it in vantage) and it carries RD and DNSSEC only: +cd, ECS and NSID are refused rather than dropped. |
| dnssec | boolean | no | Set the DO bit and read AD |
| cd | boolean | no | Checking disabled: ask the resolver not to validate |
| ecs | string | no | EDNS Client Subnet in CIDR form, e.g. 192.0.2.0/24 |
| norec | boolean | no | Clear RD, like dig +norec, when asking an authoritative server directly |
| nsid | boolean | no | Request NSID (RFC 5001) |
| family | string | no | Which address family to dial the resolver on |
Raw JSON schema
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"name": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The name to ask for, e.g. example.com or _dmarc.example.com"
},
"type": {
"type": "string",
"default": "A",
"description": "Record type: A, AAAA, MX, TXT, NS, SOA, CNAME, DS, DNSKEY, CAA, SRV, HTTPS, SVCB, PTR, or TYPE<n>"
},
"resolver": {
"type": "string",
"default": "cloudflare",
"description": "A board resolver id (cloudflare, google, quad9, opendns, adguard, cleanbrowsing, controld, quad9-unfiltered, adguard-family, cleanbrowsing-family, adguard-unfiltered, opendns-familyshield, nextdns, cloudflare-malware, cloudflare-family, mullvad-base, dns4eu-protective), a registry alias such as 8.8.8.8 or dns.google, \"all\" for every public resolver side by side, or any public IP address"
},
"transport": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"doh",
"dot",
"tcp53",
"udp53"
],
"default": "doh",
"description": "DoH (RFC 8484 wire format), DoT on 853, Do53 over TCP, or Do53 over UDP. udp53 is the transport the Cloudflare edge cannot run, so it is measured from our own probe off Cloudflare (each result says which seat measured it in vantage) and it carries RD and DNSSEC only: +cd, ECS and NSID are refused rather than dropped."
},
"dnssec": {
"type": "boolean",
"default": true,
"description": "Set the DO bit and read AD"
},
"cd": {
"type": "boolean",
"default": false,
"description": "Checking disabled: ask the resolver not to validate"
},
"ecs": {
"type": "string",
"description": "EDNS Client Subnet in CIDR form, e.g. 192.0.2.0/24"
},
"norec": {
"type": "boolean",
"default": false,
"description": "Clear RD, like dig +norec, when asking an authoritative server directly"
},
"nsid": {
"type": "boolean",
"default": false,
"description": "Request NSID (RFC 5001)"
},
"family": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"v4",
"v6",
"both"
],
"default": "v4",
"description": "Which address family to dial the resolver on"
}
},
"required": [
"name"
]
}