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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: dig

This article spotlights alternative tools to dig.

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The software featured here is free and open source. All tools provide a command-line interface (CLI). dog features in our Top 100 CLI apps.

Alternatives to dig
dogDNS client with colorful output, DNS-over-TLS and DNS-over-HTTPS support
drillPerform DNS lookups and display answers returned from the name server(s)
dnslookupSupports plain DNS, DoH, DoT, DoQ, and DNSCrypt
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Harry F
Harry F
9 months ago
Have we missed any open source alternatives to dig? Please let us know!" Read more »

Don’t forget that there are DNS servers that ship DNS utilities. I’m thinking of knot which gives khost and kdig. There’s also Unbound which gives unbound-host.

Pedro
Pedro
9 months ago
Have we missed any open source alternatives to dig? Please let us know!" Read more »

While not as good as dog or drill, there’s dnslookup.