How can I find the origins of conflicting DNS records?
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You’ll want the SOA (Start of Authority) record for a given domain name, and this is how you accomplish it using the universally available nslookup command line tool:
The origin (or primary name server on Windows) line tells you that ns51.domaincontrol is the main name server for stackoverflow.com.
At the end of output all authoritative servers, including backup servers for the given domain, are listed.