djbdns's dnsq(1) and dnsqr(1) clone implemented in Golang

• Copyright (C) 2015-2023 SATOH Fumiyasu @ OSS Technology Corp., Japan
• License: Go
• Development home: https://github.com/fumiyas/dnsq-go
• Author's home: https://fumiyas.github.io/

What's this?

djbdns's dnsq(1) and dnsqr(1) clone implemented in Golang

• dnsq
  • Sends a non-recursive DNS query to DNS contents server
• dnsqr
  • Sends a recursive DNS query to DNS cache server
• djbdns
  • http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html

Download

Binary files are here for Windows:

• https://github.com/fumiyas/dnsq-go/releases

How to install

$ go install github.com/fumiyas/dnsq-go/cmd/dnsq@latest
$ go install github.com/fumiyas/dnsq-go/cmd/dnsqr@latest
$ ls ~/go/bin/dnsq*
...

How to build

How to build native binaries:

$ git clone https://github.com/fumiyas/dnsq-go.git
$ cd dnsq-go
$ make
...
$ ls build/bin
...

How to build Windows binaries on non-Windows environment (cross build):

$ GOOS=windows go build ./cmd/dnsq
$ GOOS=windows go build ./cmd/dnsqr
$ ls *.exe
...

or:

$ GOOS=windows GOARCH=386 go build ./cmd/dnsq
$ GOOS=windows GOARCH=386 go build ./cmd/dnsqr
$ ls *.exe
...

How to use

$ dnsq a www.google.com a.root-servers.net
$ dnsqr a www.osstech.co.jp
$ dnsqr a www.xvideos.com 8.8.8.8
$ dnsqr a www.xvideos.com your-full-service-resolver.example.jp

TODO

• Add an option to enable/disable TCP, UDP, EDNS0 and so on.
• Add an option to specify EDNS0 buffer size.
• Support DNSSEC.