How To Find Out What My DNS Servers Address Is?

How do I find out my DNS Server Addresses under Linux / UNIX / Windows operating system? What is my dns server IP address under Windows operating systems? Can you specify a list of public DNS server for personal use or game consoles?

DNS is key to many network services. Internet browsing, mail server, web server etc all depends upon DNS server. Most ISP (Internet service provider) have their own caching dns server to reduce network load. But how do you find out DNS server IP address? How do you find out current DNS server IP address? Under Linux, FreeBSD and all UNIX like oses you have file called /etc/resolv.conf file. It is often know as resolver configuration file. If you are using MS-Windows version Vista / 7 / NT / 2000 / XP /98 etc then see below for how to find out DNS server address under MS-Windows operating systems.

Linux / UNIX / Apple OS X Find Out Dns Server Addresses:

The resolver is a set of routines in the C library that provide access to the Internet Domain Name System (DNS). The resolver configuration file contains information that is read by the resolver routines the first time they are invoked by a process.

Commend to find out your dns servers ip address under Linux/BSD/Unixish system

To see your DNS server address type following command as shell prompt:

$ cat /etc/resolv.conf

OR

$ less /etc/resolv.conf

nameserver 203.54.1.20
nameserver 203.54.1.21

Where,

nameserver 203.54.1.20 : It is Name server IP address (in dot notation) of a name server that the resolver should query. All your application will use this IP address for DNS purpose.Where,

Find Out DNS Server IP Address Under MS-Windows Version 7/Vista/XP/NT/2003

Click on Start button > Run > and Type command cmd > Press [enter] key

At DOS prompt type the command:

C:\>ipconfig /all

You should DNS server IP address, and other information related to Windows networking:

OR
You can Click on Start button > Settings > Network connections
Double click on Local Area Connection
Click on Properties button
Select Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
Click on Properties button and Look for Preferred DNS Server:

You Can Use The Public DNS Servers:

You can use the following Google public DNS (IP Addresses) servers for XBOX 360 / Sony PS3 & PS2 / Nintendo Wii game consoles or any other purpose:

8.8.8.8
8.8.4.4
They are free to all, pretty fast too and works with all sort of computers and game consoles.You Can Use The Public DNS Servers

Free DNS Server:

OpenDNS Free DNS Server IP address

=> 208.67.222.222
=> 208.67.220.220

ScrubIT Free DNS Server IP address

=> 67.138.54.100
=> 207.225.209.66

How do I setup DNS Server IP address?

Under Linux / UNIX / Solaris / BSD operating systems, just open your /etc/resolv.conf file and add above IP address:

nameserver 208.67.222.222
nameserver 208.67.220.220