# DNS
```
$ ionic cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-dns
$ npm install @awesome-cordova-plugins/dns
## [Usage Documentation](https://danielsogl.gitbook.io/awesome-cordova-plugins/plugins/dns/)
Plugin Repo: [https://bitbucket.org/zegeba/cordova-plugin-dns](https://bitbucket.org/zegeba/cordova-plugin-dns)
A plugin for Apache Cordova that enables applications to manually resolve hostnames into an underlying network address. This is mostly useful for determining whether there is a problem with the device's DNS server configuration.
## Supported platforms
- Android