Ubuntu resolvectl set dns server

Introduction

When you browse the internet, you are actually accessing different websites by their domain names. However, your computer doesn’t understand domain names, so it needs to translate them into IP addresses.

This is where Domain Name System (DNS) servers come into play.

A DNS server is responsible for translating domain names into IP addresses. In this blog post, we will discuss how to check DNS server in Ubuntu.

Check DNS Server with systemd-resolve command in Ubuntu

In Ubuntu, you can check the DNS server by using the systemd-resolve command.

Open the terminal and type the following command:

This command will display the DNS server that your system is currently using. If you have multiple DNS servers configured, it will show all of them.

For example,

In Ubuntu 18.04 and 20.04 we can use systemd-resolve –status. In newer versions, we can use resolvectl status.

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