SYD-DNS(1)

📦 version 3.51.2, in nixos 26.05

💅 syd-dns — ok so like, DNS but make it cute

Bestie, welcome to syd-dns(1), a lil' General Commands Manual moment. This one's a tiny utility that just... resolves stuff. Like, you give it a hostname, it gives you IPs, using your system DNS resolver — no extra drama, no custom resolver config, just vibes and /etc/resolv.conf doing its thing. 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

syd-dns — resolve a hostname into IPs using the system DNS resolver. That's it, that's the whole job. 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

syd-dns [-hr46] hostname

syd-dns [-R] IPv4/6 address

Two modes, two moods. Either you're going forward (name → IPs) or you're being all mysterious and going backwards with -R (IP → name). Main character energy both ways, honestly. ✨

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Resolve hostname into IPs using system DNS resolver. Yes, that's a direct quote of my own energy — it's literally what it does. 🫶

And then, when you pass -R, it flips the whole thing: perform a reverse-DNS lookup for the given IPv4/6 address using the system DNS resolver. So instead of "who is example.com", you're asking "bestie, who are you, 192.0.2.1?" 💅

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

Ok so the flags. There are literally six. You got this. 👑

  • -h — Display help and exit. The classic "halp" flag. Very demure, very mindful. 🙈
  • -4 — Print only IPv4 addresses. If you're an IPv4-only kinda girlie, this is your filter. 🍓
  • -6 — Print only IPv6 addresses. For the forward-thinking, futuristic, main-character-bestie era. 🌈
  • -r — Print a random IP picked using getrandom(2). Not just any random — the kernel-grade random. Slay. 🎲
  • -R — Perform a reverse DNS lookup using getnameinfo(3). The backwards-girlie mode. 💫
Lowkey important: -4 and -6 filter the output, -r picks one random result, and -R changes the entire mode of operation. Don't mix them up, bestie. 😭

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

Also, the syd homepage lives at: https://sydbox.exherbo.org/ — go peek, it's giving iconic. 🔥

💜 AUTHORS 💜

Maintained by Ali Polatel. Up-to-date sources can be found at https://gitlab.exherbo.org/sydbox/sydbox.git and bugs/patches can be submitted to https://gitlab.exherbo.org/groups/sydbox/-/issues. Wanna discuss? Come hang in #sydbox on Libera Chat or in #sydbox:mailstation.de on Matrix. We don't bite, fr fr. 🫶

And that's the whole page, bestie — brought to you by General Commands Manual, dated 1980-01-01. Yeah, the date is genuinely that old. Vintage. Antique. Historic. Not me being older than everyone in the group chat. 💀✨

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