Met het terminal programma dig kan je de verschillende adressen terug vinden.
:~$ dig hotmail.com
; <<>> DiG 9.9.5-9-Debian <<>> hotmail.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 8010
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 4, AUTHORITY: 4, ADDITIONAL: 9
;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 1280
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;hotmail.com. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
hotmail.com. 3473 IN A 157.56.172.28
hotmail.com. 3473 IN A 157.55.152.112
hotmail.com. 3473 IN A 65.55.85.12
hotmail.com. 3473 IN A 65.55.77.28
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
hotmail.com. 116524 IN NS ns2.msft.net.
hotmail.com. 116524 IN NS ns1.msft.net.
hotmail.com. 116524 IN NS ns4.msft.net.
hotmail.com. 116524 IN NS ns3.msft.net.
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns1.msft.net. 12 IN A 208.84.0.53
ns1.msft.net. 289 IN AAAA 2620:0:30::53
ns2.msft.net. 115990 IN A 208.84.2.53
ns2.msft.net. 93413 IN AAAA 2620:0:32::53
ns3.msft.net. 12 IN A 193.221.113.53
ns3.msft.net. 289 IN AAAA 2620:0:34::53
ns4.msft.net. 115990 IN A 208.76.45.53
ns4.msft.net. 93414 IN AAAA 2620:0:37::53
;; Query time: 61 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.34.254#53(192.168.34.254)
;; WHEN: Fri Jun 05 17:42:36 CEST 2015
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 360
:~$