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A Record Lookup

Find the IPv4 address (A record) a domain or subdomain points to.

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Enter a domain or subdomain to see the IPv4 address its A record points to - the first thing to check after changing hosts.

What is an A record?

An A record maps a domain name to an IPv4 address - it is the record browsers use to find the server a website is hosted on. A domain can have several A records for redundancy or load balancing.

How to look up A records

Enter the domain or subdomain in the box above.
Click Look Up A.
Compare the IPv4 addresses shown with the ones your hosting provider gave you.
If they differ after an update, wait for the old record's TTL to expire or check propagation.

Related checks

For the IPv6 equivalent, use the AAAA Record Lookup.
To see every record type at once, use the DNS Lookup.
To check whether a new A record has propagated, use the DNS Propagation Checker.

If the IPv4 address above is not the server you expect, visitors are being sent somewhere else - often an old host after a migration. Add the domain to JustChecker and you will hear about it the moment the A record points somewhere new.

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. Several A records spread visitors across multiple servers (simple round-robin load balancing), and CDNs often return several addresses.

Your hosting provider shows it in the control panel or welcome email. Set that address as the A record for your domain and for www (or point www at the domain with a CNAME).

When a CDN proxies your site, the A record points to the CDN, which then fetches pages from your real server. That is expected and hides your server's address.

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