I wrote dug, a cli tool I made to help visualize DNS propagation but is a great learning tool. Similar to dig and dog, but specifically for querying or watching large numbers of DNS servers at once.
Show HN: "q", a DNS query tool with support for UDP, TCP, DoT, DoH, DoQ and ODoH
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Re: Show HN: "q", a DNS query tool with support for UDP, TCP, DoT, DoH, DoQ and ODoH
#42Can we talk about that name, though?
It only brings me associations with the Q-Anon movement.
Also, one-letter names is hard to google, hard to remember and easy to mix up.
If you want to use one letter on the CLI, just use an alias.
alias m=make
Re: Show HN: "q", a DNS query tool with support for UDP, TCP, DoT, DoH, DoQ and ODoH
#43See also "dog" which I've been using for a while, works well. https://github.com/ogham/dog I actually already have a "q" alias, I think single-letter aliases are probably quite common. Are there many other well-known utilities with a single-letter name? Edit: Turns out I have one installed, "z", a universal archiver front-end. https://legacy.cs.indiana.edu/~kinzler/z/
It would seem that the project is stalled, if not dead.
I discovered the project with this thread and I was about to file a bug report when I saw some comments about the maintainer who went silent a year ago or so.
Re: Show HN: "q", a DNS query tool with support for UDP, TCP, DoT, DoH, DoQ and ODoH
#449k stars and 5yrs old: https://github.com/harelba/q Why not call it like dnsq or dq like jq ( https://stedolan.github.io/jq/ ) did?
You can’t just claim a letter and expect no one else to ever make a thing that is named that letter. Except C.
I use a lot of single-letter aliases, so I'd really prefer applications avoid using single-letter names, and reverse that specifically for user-local aliases.
Re: Show HN: "q", a DNS query tool with support for UDP, TCP, DoT, DoH, DoQ and ODoH
#45Nice tool and nice interface. It's a shame that (and to no one's fault) we tend to rely on POSIX standard tools (or at least ones we can expect). I do it too since I like to know that that new machine I'm logged into has what I want. The big exception is for personal scripts where I'd only run them on my own machine since I have full control.
Very nice looking personal tool though.
Re: Show HN: "q", a DNS query tool with support for UDP, TCP, DoT, DoH, DoQ and ODoH
#46See also "dog" which I've been using for a while, works well. https://github.com/ogham/dog I actually already have a "q" alias, I think single-letter aliases are probably quite common. Are there many other well-known utilities with a single-letter name? Edit: Turns out I have one installed, "z", a universal archiver front-end. https://legacy.cs.indiana.edu/~kinzler/z/
I use a “z” as well, but it’s a global cd tool. https://github.com/rupa/z/
I use Zoxide[0], which incidentally also uses "z" as its main command, and it's also a "cd" tool.