Field

Description

Query

Fill in a domain you want to check.

Type

Select a type of DNS record you want to check a domain for.

Lookup

Click the button to perform a query.

To Clipboard

Click the button to copy query results to a clipboard.

Name, TLL (time to live), Class, Type, Result

Query results.

DNS

Fill in the IP address of the DNS server you want to perform query against.

By default, the IP address obtained by Windows from your local network is used.

Timeout (Secs)

Fill in a maximum time your query should last.

Cache

Tick the box if you want to have query results cached. If the same query is launched, it is not really performed – results are loaded from a cache.

Status bar

Result summary is shown here.

Field

Description

Test

Click the button to perform connection test against the list of global DNS servers defined in the left-hand frame.

Stop

Click the button to stop a ongoing test.

Rounds

Fill in a number of test rounds to be performed.

Middle frame

This frame includes test results.

DNS, Timeout, Cache, Status bar

See the Query tab description.