dns_browse(1)

📦 version 1.9, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 dns_browse(1) — bestie edition 💖

okay so you found yourself in section 1 of the General Commands Manual, and the command in question is dns_browse. welcome, sit down, we're doing DNS but make it ✨clickable✨.

🌸 NAME 🌸

dns_browse — a GUI front-end to dns_tree

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

dns_browse [-w] [-t TYPE] DNS_domain

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

This manual page documents briefly the dns_browse command. Just the highlights, the trailer, the little teaser of a manpage, if you will.

Real talk though: this manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. Like, at all. So Debian said "fine, we'll do it ourselves 💅" and here we are.

dns_browse is a program that works as a GUI front-end to dns_tree. It allows point-and-click DNS browsing and makes it easy to expand/compress hierarchies in one or more DNS zones. So instead of squinting at text output like it's a group chat you got added to by accident, you get little clicky triangles and everything. Iconic behaviour honestly. 🫶

✨ OPTIONS ✨

A summary of options is included below. Short list, but every single one is a baddie.

  • -t TYPE — show only records of TYPE. You can repeat this argument to indicate multiple types. Use the "all" type to print all the known types. Go off, collect them all like they're trading cards. 🌈
  • -h — show summary of options. The classic "help me, I'm lost" button, and she never fails. 😭
  • -w — match only web hosts. Only those hosts which have 'www' in their name will be shown. so if it's not giving www, it's not giving at all. 💀
ngl the -w one is picky on purpose — 'www' in the name or you're not invited to the party.

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

  • dig(1)
  • dns_tree(1)

👑 AUTHOR 👑

This manual page was written by Javier Fernandez-Sanguino jfs@debian.org for the Debian system (and may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.

and that's the whole thing, bestie — every last crumb of it, straight from the dns_browse(1) page in the General Commands Manual. no notes, no skips, no skimming. mwah. 💅🎀🦋

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