Hurricane Electric’s BGP Toolkit provides routing lookup pages, including prefix and network reports.
Hurricane Electric
Host DNS records for domains with Hurricane Electric’s free DNS service.
About Hurricane Electric
Hurricane Electric Hosted DNS is a web portal for hosting and managing forward and reverse DNS zones for your domains. You use it through the dns.he.net site, and you need an account to log in. The site describes access during its open beta for IPv6 certification and Tunnelbroker account holders, colocation customers, and transit customers.
Key features
- Manage forward and reverse DNS zones from a web browser
- Common record types including A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, TXT, PTR and SRV
- Dual-stack queries over IPv4 and IPv6
- Dynamic DNS updates, including dynamic TXT records
- Checkip service to look up the current address
- Multiple domains per account
- Slave support and multiple reverse zone formats
- Delegation sanity checks for forward and reverse zones
Watch out for
- Open beta access is described for specific account and customer types
- Dynamic TXT records may take up to 5 minutes to propagate
Hurricane Electric at a glance
- Website
- dns.he.net
- Category
- Development › Network Tools
- Type
- Online tool
- Pricing
- Free
- Platforms
- Web
- Details verified
- Oct 22, 2026 · Official source
- Open source
- Not stated
- Language
- English
- Last checked
- Oct 5, 2026 · Online when checked
- Listed
- Oct 5, 2026
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