Log all DNS activity on your Windows PCs with DNSLookupView

guest · Aug 12, 2021

Log all DNS activity on your Windows PCs with DNSLookupView
August 12, 2021
https://www.ghacks.net/2021/08/12/log-all-dns-activity-on-your-windows-pcs-with-dnslookupview/

DNSLookupView is a new portable application by Nirsoft, which logs all DNS activity on Windows devices. DNS is a cornerstone of the Internet, as it translates domain names such as ghacks.net into IP addresses. Communication on the Internet needs DNS, and DNS may reveal a lot about a user's activity on the Internet.

It is compatible with Windows 8.1 and up, and can be downloaded free of charge from the Nirsoft website. Just extract the archive it is supplied as after the download finishes and run the program to use it.
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Nir Sofer describes how the program works on the official webpage.

This tool uses the event tracing of Windows operating system with the 'Microsoft-Windows-DNS-Client' provider ( 1C95126E-7EEA-49A9-A3FE-A378B03DDB4D ). The captured event ID is 3008, which contains the information about every DNS query handled by the DNS Client service of Windows.
Activate the play button in the program's toolbar to start the recording. DNS queries are added to the program interface as they happen from that moment on. For each query, information such as the host name, query type and result, process or process folder is listed.
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Closing Words
DNSLookupView is a straightforward application, just like many other Nirsoft programs. It is useful if you want to monitor DNS traffic, e.g. to spot programs that communicate with the Internet without your consent, for troubleshooting purposes, or just for getting an overview of the communication.
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