The dashboard aggregates reliable client and DNS-leak telemetry to help engineers, support teams, and privacy‑conscious users understand their connection footprint.
Each lookup spawns unique hostnames and records the resolver IP plus provider label. Users immediately see why several Google LLC nodes appear even when pointing clients at 8.8.8.8, and they can spot leaks from unknown networks.
Google Public DNS is anycast: the query arrives at 8.8.8.8 but is processed by the closest resolver cluster (172.217.x.x, 172.253.x.x, etc.). The DNS leak widget lists those internal nodes, so several Google LLC IPs mean the traffic still flows through Google. Only unfamiliar networks indicate a potential leak.
Your browser fetches ten random hostnames under our probe domain. Each hostname encodes a unique ID, and our lightweight DNS server logs the resolver IP that requested it. When the widget polls the API we return the list of resolver IPs plus provider metadata sourced from DB-IP, giving you transparency without sending full queries to third parties.