congress.gov
The domain congress.gov answers at IP address 104.18.43.50. That address belongs to Cloudflare, Inc., based in Canada. The domain DNS is managed by Cloudflare, which decides where each subdomain points. Mail for congress.gov goes through 3 servers; the highest priority one is mx22.loc.gov. It also publishes 2 TXT records, used to verify domain ownership with external services and to configure mail security through SPF, DKIM and DMARC.
A A records
- 104.18.43.50 300s
- 172.64.144.206 300s
AAAA AAAA records
MX MX records
- 5 mx22.loc.gov 300s
- 5 mx41.loc.gov 300s
- 5 mx42.loc.gov 300s
NS NS records
- alice.ns.cloudflare.com 21600s
- kevin.ns.cloudflare.com 21600s
TXT TXT records
- v=spf1 include:spf1.loc.gov include:spf2.loc.gov mx ~all 900s
- google-site-verification=NKXJwj1XXYcyc7HB9HJsgC_vnJWvx-Y1oO44EVXdgrc 900s
SOA SOA records
- alice.ns.cloudflare.com 1800s
What each record means
- A and AAAA: the server IP address, in IPv4 and IPv6.
- MX: the servers that receive the domain mail. The number is the priority; the lowest is tried first.
- NS: the name servers, which have the final say over the domain DNS.
- TXT: free text. Mostly used for SPF, DKIM and DMARC, and to verify ownership with third parties.
- TTL: how many seconds the record may be cached before asking again.
Checked 17 hours ago.