JIjiehong·Feb 22, 2025
I’d recommend Doggo [0], also written in go.
[0]: https://github.com/mr-karan/doggo
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:dog: Command-line DNS Client for Humans. Written in Golang
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| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 12 | 0 | 12 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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16 sourcesJust did: https://github.com/mr-karan/doggo/pull/128
Will release soon
In Show HN: Doggo – A powerful, human-friendly DNS client for the command lineI just pushed the concurrent version of lookups in each resolver. Speed up is quite good around 70-80% on most domains. Will test this more before releasing to main!
https://github.com/mr-karan/doggo/pull/128#issuecomment-2202...
In Show HN: Doggo – A powerful, human-friendly DNS client for the command lineI've just created a PR for supporting common record types: https://github.com/mr-karan/doggo/pull/128
However, each lookup happens serially right now, I'll take a look at making it concurrent per resolver atleast.
Edit: I just pushed the concurrent version of lookups in each resolver. Speed up is quite good around 70-80% on most domains. Will test this more before releasing to main!
https://github.com/mr-karan/doggo/pull/128#issuecomment-2202...
In Show HN: Doggo – A powerful, human-friendly DNS client for the command lineSorry the demo link is fixed now: https://doggo.mrkaran.dev/
Yes, you can run the web server locally: https://github.com/mr-karan/doggo/tree/main/web
cd web
go run .
In Show HN: Doggo – A powerful, human-friendly DNS client for the command lineSorry about that, it was a silly typo on my end. I've just pushed a fix:
go install github.com/mr-karan/doggo/cmd/doggo@v1.0.2
In Show HN: Doggo – A powerful, human-friendly DNS client for the command lineIs this related to Dog [1]? They look almost identical in functionality.
Both ask for the specific query to run (A, AAAA, etc.). Why not default to query all records? (at least when querying a single domain).
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1: https://github.com/mr-karan/doggo
In Show HN: Doggo – A powerful, human-friendly DNS client for the command lineJust pushed a minor patch release. Tagged on main: https://github.com/mr-karan/doggo/commit/8f60428f6ae154918d9...
In Show HN: Doggo – A powerful, human-friendly DNS client for the command lineDoes this command not work?
go install github.com/mr-karan/doggo/cmd@latest
go: downloading github.com/mr-karan/doggo v1.0.0
In Show HN: Doggo – A powerful, human-friendly DNS client for the command lineyou'll usually find binaries in github releases (see the assets section: https://github.com/mr-karan/doggo/releases )
In Show HN: Doggo – A powerful, human-friendly DNS client for the command lineI guess not using one of the proxies? for some reason their v1.0.0 commit isn't attached to anything... https://github.com/mr-karan/doggo/commit/fe3958594df46c000ef...
In Show HN: Doggo – A powerful, human-friendly DNS client for the command linego: downloading github.com/mr-karan/doggo v0.5.7
go: github.com/mr-karan/doggo/cmd@latest:
module github.com/mr-karan/doggo@latest found (v0.5.7),
but does not contain package github.com/mr-karan/doggo/cmd
In Show HN: Doggo – A powerful, human-friendly DNS client for the command lineThanks! I pretty much did this as a learning/hobby side project. Back in 2021, I was dealing with a lot of K8s clusters and had recently learnt what about ndots[1]. That prompted me to build an easy to use DNS client which can avoid surprises about the host environment.
I've built this using Go, my daily driver. It doesn't use any CLI frameworks, that was mostly out of choice as I didn't want to add external deps unless really required.
My favourite part was to build this small help.go[3] utility which renders colored/formatted help text.
Over the time I got some good quality external contributions, especially the one from @jedisct1 for adding DNSCrypt[2] support to it.
Releasing a v1.0 has been on the back burner forever (like, a whole year+ :'). Life, other projects, and probably a bit of procrastination got in the way.
Finally sat dow
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n last week and forced myself to come up with a deadline to push this out.
[1]: https://mrkaran.dev/posts/ndots-kubernetes/
[2]: https://github.com/mr-karan/doggo/pull/17
[3]: https://github.com/mr-karan/doggo/blob/main/cmd/help.go
There's already https://github.com/mr-karan/doggo
In Show HN: "q", a DNS query tool with support for UDP, TCP, DoT, DoH, DoQ and ODoHI use doggo, a better version written in Go: https://github.com/mr-karan/doggo
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