Alternatives
intoDNS Alternative — Modern DNS Health Reports
intoDNS is the classic one-page DNS health report: enter a domain, get a long list of checks on its nameserver and mail configuration.
Why people look for something else
- You want the same report shape with DNSSEC and CAA included.
- You want to hand a colleague a link rather than a screenshot of a wall of text.
- You want the underlying checks available individually, and as an API.
What iPGaze does here
The DNS Report tool covers the same ground — nameserver agreement, SOA values and timers, address and mail records, SPF configuration — and adds the two things that have become standard since that style of report was designed: DNSSEC chain status and CAA records.
Each check is also its own tool, which matters when you already know what is wrong and just want to watch one value change while you fix it.
If you are diagnosing a delegation problem specifically, the nameserver lookup reports what the parent zone says versus what the zone itself says, which is the discrepancy behind a large share of DNS problems that look inexplicable from the inside.
The overlapping tools
All free, no account, no result limits:
- DNS ReportA health check of a domain's NS, SOA, A/AAAA, MX and SPF configuration.
- Nameserver LookupList a domain's authoritative nameservers and their IP addresses.
- SOA LookupFetch the Start of Authority record (primary NS, serial, timers).
- DNS LookupLook up A, AAAA, MX, TXT, NS, CNAME and SOA records for a domain.
- MX LookupList a domain's mail exchangers, sorted by priority, with their IPs.
- SPF CheckFind and parse a domain's SPF record and its policy.
- DNSSEC CheckCheck whether a domain is DNSSEC-signed and validates correctly.
- CAA LookupList the Certificate Authority Authorization (CAA) records for a domain.
Scriptable, if you need it
30 of these lookups are available as a free JSON API with no key, no signup and CORS enabled, so a check you run by hand can become a scheduled job. Read the API docs.
Other comparisons
We deliberately make no claims about intoDNS's pricing, quotas or feature set — those change, and a stale comparison helps nobody. Everything stated above about iPGaze is checkable by running the tools.