ofdns(1)
π ofdns(1) π
okay bestie, welcome to the General Commands Manual section for ofdns β literally the moment your terminal learns to do DNS lookups and honestly? she ate. π
β¨ NAME β¨
ofdns β perform DNS lookups
πΈ SYNOPSIS πΈ
ofdns [options] domain1 [domain2 ...]
π¦ DESCRIPTION π¦
So like, ofdns is a program to perform DNS lookups. that's it, that's the whole vibe. you give it domains, it goes and asks the internet what's up. no cap. π
π OPTIONS π
-cclass,--class=class β the DNS class you wanna query. defaults toIN(iykyk). π-h,--helpβ show the help. yes queen, read the docs. β¨-sserver,--server=server β the server to query. pick your fighter. π-ttype,--type=type β the record type to query. defaults toAAAAandA, and the way that it can be repeated?? obsessed. stack those types fr fr. π₯--tcpβ force using TCP for the query. sometimes you just gotta be extra about it. π
π EXAMPLES π
Query the A and AAAA record for example.com:
ofdns example.com
Query the CNAME record for www.example.com:
ofdns -t CNAME example.com
Query 2001:db8::1 for the AAAA record for example.com:
ofdns -s 2001:db8::1 -t AAAA example.com
not me writing a whole manual page for a DNS tool and genuinely having the time of my life. main character energy only. π«Ά
okay that's the whole page bestie, and this one signs off as ofdns(1) from the General Commands Manual β that's the source, that's the title, that's the whole footer moment. go resolve some names, you absolute icon. ππΈπ¦βπ
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- epel 10: ofdns 1.5.7-1.el10_3 Β· LGPL-3.0-only
- epel 9: ofdns 1.5.7-1.el9 Β· LGPL-3.0-only
- fedora 43: ofdns 1.5.7-1.fc43 Β· LGPL-3.0-only
- fedora 44: ofdns 1.5.1-1.fc44 Β· LGPL-3.0-only
- fedora 44: ofdns 1.5.7-1.fc44 Β· LGPL-3.0-only
- nixos 26.05: objfw 1.5.2
- nixpkgs unstable: objfw 1.5.7
- ubuntu resolute: ofdns 1.4.4-1 Β· LGPL-3.0-only
- ubuntu stonking: ofdns 1.5.7-1 Β· LGPL-3.0-only
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