Zns: CLI tool for querying DNS records with readable, colored output

I especially like the option to output JSON.

However one minor annoyance is the fact that the json keys are prepended with a non-alphanumeric character (e.g “@domain”, “@record”). This adds no value and makes it more difficult to work with in some cases (jq scripts will need to use quotes to reference the keys, etc).

I’d recommend Doggo [0], also written in go.

[0]: https://github.com/mr-karan/doggo

I used to use Doggo but not many updates and HTTP3 queries have huge delays in execution. My go to now is natesales/q [0], also written in Go.

0. https://github.com/natesales/q

> Colorized and tabular output for easy reading

I like how the usage example shows a single pale blue dot.

Yeah, I think that's just GitHub syntax highlighting. An image would have been great here.

If you want to query multiple servers at once, also with colorful output (or even customizable json output), check out dug.

https://dug.unfrl.com/ https://github.com/unfrl/dug