diff --git a/website/content/docs/discovery/dns.mdx b/website/content/docs/discovery/dns.mdx
index 5643068ba3..f052b0e27b 100644
--- a/website/content/docs/discovery/dns.mdx
+++ b/website/content/docs/discovery/dns.mdx
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ the partition and datacenter of the Consul agent that received the DNS query.
 
 Use the following query format to specify a partition for a node lookup:
 ```text
-[<tag>.]<node>.node.<partition>.ap.<datacenter>.dc.<domain>
+<node>.node.<partition>.ap.<datacenter>.dc.<domain>
 ```
 
 Consul server agents are in the `default` partition.