dnsq(1)

📦 version 1.05, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 dnsq(1) — the girlies' guide to poking a DNS server directly 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the General Commands Manual page for dnsq, and no cap, this lil tool is lowkey iconic. it's a command-line girlie that goes and asks a DNS server a question, but like — and this is the whole personality — she asks it non-recursively. more on that in a sec, i promise. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

dnsq — sends a non-recursive DNS query to DNS server 🌸

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

dnsq t fqdn s

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so here's the vibe 💅 — dnsq sends a non-recursive DNS query to DNS server s for records of type t under the domain name fqdn. that's it, that's the whole job, and she does it flawlessly.

then she prints the results in a human-readable format, which is giving very much "i got you bestie, no raw packet soup for you today" 🫶✨

ngl the non-recursive part is the main character energy here — she's not out here chasing referrals all over the internet like some recursive resolver. she asks that one server, gets an answer, and minds her business. periodt. 💀

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

the whole friend group, fr fr — go say hi to all of them 🦋:

and if you wanna go straight to the source, the mothership lives at:

http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html
💜 lowkey reminder: this page comes straight out of the General Commands Manual, and the whole thing signs off as dnsq(1). so there you go bestie — that's your source, that's your version, that's your page. slay, go query something. 🧚✨
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