# Find provs not working? **URL:** \ **Category:** Help\ **Created:** [July 19, 2023, 12:21pm UTC](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/t/find-provs-not-working/16708 "2023-07-19T12:21:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tuut](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.ipfs.tech/tuut/32/7824_2.png) [@Tuut](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/u/Tuut)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2023, 12:21pm UTC](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/t/find-provs-not-working/16708/1 "2023-07-19T12:21:35Z")
Hello everyone, I have a problem. I want to query the nodes that hold a certain CID, but when I use the `findprovs` command, I get nothing back. The CID contains an accessible HTML page, so in my understanding, `findprovs` should return some nodes. Can anyone assist me? ---
**Author:** ![Discordian](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.ipfs.tech/discordian/32/4692_2.png) [@Discordian](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/u/Discordian)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2023, 6:12pm UTC](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/t/find-provs-not-working/16708/2 "2023-07-19T18:12:35Z")
How do you know the nodes have the CID? You could try [https://ipfs-check.on.fleek.co](https://ipfs-check.on.fleek.co) to diagnose certain issues with nodes/CIDs. ---
**Author:** ![Jorropo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.ipfs.tech/jorropo/32/3230_2.png) [@Jorropo](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/u/Jorropo)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2023, 3:19am UTC](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/t/find-provs-not-working/16708/3 "2023-07-20T03:19:06Z")
are you doing `ipfs routing findprovs` or `ipfs dht findprovs` ? ---
**Author:** ![Tuut](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.ipfs.tech/tuut/32/7824_2.png) [@Tuut](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/u/Tuut)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2023, 6:45am UTC](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/t/find-provs-not-working/16708/4 "2023-07-20T06:45:17Z")
No, I don’t know which nodes have the content, I only know the ‘url’ ---
**Author:** ![Tuut](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.ipfs.tech/tuut/32/7824_2.png) [@Tuut](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/u/Tuut)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2023, 6:46am UTC](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/t/find-provs-not-working/16708/5 "2023-07-20T06:46:16Z")
Thank you for your response. I have only run ipfs dht findprovs ---
**Author:** ![Jorropo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.ipfs.tech/jorropo/32/3230_2.png) [@Jorropo](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/u/Jorropo)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2023, 7:07am UTC](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/t/find-provs-not-working/16708/6 "2023-07-20T07:07:54Z")
`ipfs dht findprovs` is the first thing that was created, it queries the Distributed Hash Table. You should now try `ipfs routing findprovs` it does network indexer query + Distributed Hash Table. ---
**Author:** ![Tuut](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.ipfs.tech/tuut/32/7824_2.png) [@Tuut](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/u/Tuut)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2023, 8:42am UTC](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/t/find-provs-not-working/16708/7 "2023-07-20T08:42:13Z")
Fantastic, that works, I now get 1 result. Does the command ipfs dht findpeer allso work differently? no results here D:\kubo\_v0.19.1\_windows-amd64\kubo\>ipfs routing findpeer Qma8ddFEQWEU8ijWvdxXm3nxU7oHsRtCykAaVz8WUYhiKn ---
**Author:** ![Jorropo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.ipfs.tech/jorropo/32/3230_2.png) [@Jorropo](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/u/Jorropo)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2023, 4:12pm UTC](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/t/find-provs-not-working/16708/8 "2023-07-21T16:12:03Z")
`ipfs routing` → HTTP indexer + dht `ipfs dht` → dht ---
**Author:** ![Tuut](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.ipfs.tech/tuut/32/7824_2.png) [@Tuut](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/u/Tuut)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2023, 9:24am UTC](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/t/find-provs-not-working/16708/9 "2023-07-25T09:24:54Z")
Thank you for your response! However, I’m not entirely sure how to form the query from it.