Recursive name servers find the IP address for a domain by retrieving it from authoritative name servers. When you request a domain (e.g. via browser or curl), the request is handled by a recursive name server. If you want to, you can specify which recursive name server should be used. For example:
dig @<recursive_ip_address> example.comOfficial Hetzner domain name servers:
These ONLY work on cloud servers and dedicated servers in Hetzner data centers.
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IPv4 addresses of our recursive DNS servers:
185.12.64.1 185.12.64.2 -
IPv6 addresses of our recursive DNS servers:
2a01:4ff:ff00::add:1 2a01:4ff:ff00::add:2
Due to the load balancer setup, the IP addresses that we use to perform DNS queries from our recursive DNS servers to other authoritative DNS servers are not identical with those IPs mentioned above.
We publish a list of the network ranges from which we perform queries with the TXT record locations.recursivedns.hetzner.com.