How do I check what my domain name's current nameservers are?

Question

I switched nameservers last night, but I don't know if it has fully made the switch yet.

I want to ping my domain name and see what nameservers it is set as...

Answer 1

There are two primary ways to do this, neither of which involves the ping tool.:

1. Look at the whois data.
   This will typically include a section titled something like "Domains servers in listed order", which lists your nameservers.

2. dig -t NS mydomain.com
   This will report the NS records that your local nameserver gets when it tries to resolve mydomain.com.

Ideally these two lists should match exactly. If you recently switched name servers it may take some time before dig results agree with the whois data (however long it takes the NS records to expire from the caches along the way).