DT-GETRRSET(1)

💖 dt-getquery(1) — user commands, bestie edition 💖

okay so this is the manual for dt-getquery, and it lives in the User Commands section of the manual pages. it's the command-line test program for the val_get_rrset() function. iykyk. 🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

dt-getquery — a command-line test program for the val_get_rrset() function. yes, that's literally the whole job. it tests. it queries. it slays. 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

dt-getquery [options] name

you give it a name, you give it some options, it does its thing. iconic behavior. ✨

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so bestie, here's the tea ☕ — this utility is a command-line wrapper around the val_get_rrset() function. like, it's a little glow-up jacket for that function so you can poke at it from your terminal instead of writing actual code. 🫶

what it does: it invokes val_get_rrset() with the command-line arguments you handed it, and then it shows you the returned data. but not just the data — for each resource record set returned in the response, it also displays:

• the validated status 🌸
• the trusted status 👑
• the non-existence status 💀

and honestly? it also shows you any information about name aliases, because it's thorough like that. no crumbs left behind. 🍓

the trusted and validated status values come from the val_istrusted() and val_isvalidated() functions over in libval(3). that's where the receipts live.

📌 heads up: this program returns 0 on success and -1 on failure. that's it. that's the whole exit story.

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -t <type> — do the query for the given DNS record type. you want a specific type? say the word and it's done. 🎀
• -o, --output=<debug-level>:<dest-type>[:<dest-options>] — the output control option, aka where do you want your debug tea spilled and how loud. 🗣️

here's how to read that lil string:

• <debug-level> is 1-7, corresponding to syslog levels ALERT-DEBUG.
• <dest-type> is one of file, net, syslog, stderr, stdout.
• <dest-options> depends on <dest-type>:
  • file:<file-name> — (opened in append mode) 📎
  • net[:<host-name>:<host-port>] — (127.0.0.1:1053
  • syslog[:facility] — (0-23 (default 1 USER))

• -h, --help — display the help and exit. the classic "just tell me what's happening" button. 💅

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✨ PRE-REQUISITES ✨

libval

that's it. that's the list. get you a library that can do both. 💜

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✨ COPYRIGHT ✨

Copyright 2005-2013 SPARTA, Inc. All rights reserved. See the COPYING file included with the DNSSEC-Tools package for details. 📜✨

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✨ AUTHORS ✨

Abhijit Hayatnagarkar, Suresh Krishnaswamy, Robert Story, Michael Baer

the whole squad. main character energy from every single one of them. 👑👑👑👑

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✨ SEE ALSO ✨

• val_get_rrset(3)
• libval(3)
• http://www.dnssec-tools.org

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and that's the whole page, bestie 🎀 — brought to you by perl v5.14.3, dated 2013-02-27, in the classic DT-GETRRSET(1) wrapper. she's been here since 2013 and she still ate. 💖✨🌈