hotmail.com
The domain hotmail.com answers at IP address 204.79.197.212. That address belongs to Microsoft Corporation, based in United States. The domain DNS is managed by Microsoft Azure, which decides where each subdomain points. Mail for hotmail.com goes through 1 servers; the highest priority one is hotmail-com.olc.protection.outlook.com. It also publishes 3 TXT records, used to verify domain ownership with external services and to configure mail security through SPF, DKIM and DMARC.
A A records
- 204.79.197.212 864s
MX MX records
NS NS records
- ns4-205.azure-dns.info 15829s
- ns2-205.azure-dns.net 15829s
- ns1-205.azure-dns.com 15829s
- ns3-205.azure-dns.org 15829s
TXT TXT records
- v=spf1 include:spf2.outlook.com -all 3029s
- google-site-verification=VdfSHp3aOmiGxd6jcbkRPFy6EERzln_hMR3byLjU__w 3029s
- google-site-verification=gqFmgDKSUd3XGU_AzWWdojRHtW3_66W_PC3oFvQVZEw 3029s
SOA SOA records
- ns1-205.azure-dns.com 3600s
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 8 hours ago.