How to check your correct DNS with Drill command

How to check your correct DNS with Drill command
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Drill is an tool that allows you retrieve information out of DNS:

drill nicoandres.dev

this will return an output that says which ip and records are use:

;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, rcode: NOERROR, id: 54626
;; flags: qr rd ra ; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 13, ADDITIONAL: 1 
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;; nicoandres.dev.	IN	A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
nicoandres.dev.	1799	IN	A	130.61.91.9

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
.	3243	IN	NS	g.root-servers.net.
.	3243	IN	NS	f.root-servers.net.
.	3243	IN	NS	k.root-servers.net.
.	3243	IN	NS	c.root-servers.net.
.	3243	IN	NS	j.root-servers.net.
.	3243	IN	NS	l.root-servers.net.
.	3243	IN	NS	m.root-servers.net.
.	3243	IN	NS	b.root-servers.net.
.	3243	IN	NS	d.root-servers.net.
.	3243	IN	NS	h.root-servers.net.
.	3243	IN	NS	a.root-servers.net.
.	3243	IN	NS	e.root-servers.net.
.	3243	IN	NS	i.root-servers.net.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
a.root-servers.net.	46517	IN	A	198.41.0.4

;; Query time: 32 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.53
;; WHEN: Tue May  9 19:15:48 2023
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 275

this tool is useful if you would like double check that your domain is correctly pointing to your public IP address.