DNS Terminal Tools
DNS (Domain Name System) maps names such as terminaltrove.com to IP addresses through a hierarchy of resolvers and authoritative name servers.
In the terminal, DNS work means querying records with dig or a friendlier client, reading A, AAAA, MX, TXT and SOA records, watching a change propagate across public resolvers, and running WHOIS lookups on a domain. Sysadmins, SREs and anyone moving a domain to a new host start here when a service is unreachable and the network itself looks healthy, ahead of the broader network diagnostics tools.
Below is a list of terminal tools that query and diagnose DNS.
adguardian-term
An AdGuard Home terminal monitoring tool.
An AdGuard Home terminal monitoring tool.
dns53
Expose your EC2 quickly, easily and privately within a VPC.
Expose your EC2 quickly, easily and privately within a VPC.
dnsglobe
A global DNS propagation checker for your terminal.
A global DNS propagation checker for your terminal.
dnspyre
A CLI tool for a high QPS DNS benchmark.
A CLI tool for a high QPS DNS benchmark.
dog
A command-line DNS client.
A command-line DNS client.
doggo
A command-line DNS client for humans.
A command-line DNS client for humans.
domain-check
A fast, powerful CLI tool for checking domain availability using RDAP and WHOIS.
A fast, powerful CLI tool for checking domain availability using RDAP and WHOIS.
dug
A global DNS propagation checker on your CLI
A global DNS propagation checker on your CLI
hostctl
A CLI tool to manage /etc/hosts like a pro!
A CLI tool to manage /etc/hosts like a pro!
mdns-scanner
Scan a network and create a list of IPs and associated hostnames.
Scan a network and create a list of IPs and associated hostnames.
quien
A better whois and domain intelligence toolkit.
A better whois and domain intelligence toolkit.
tldx
A Domain Availability Research Tool.
A Domain Availability Research Tool.
wtfis
Passive hostname, domain and IP lookup tool for non-robots.
Passive hostname, domain and IP lookup tool for non-robots.
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