DNS Tools
Resolve DNS records (A, AAAA, MX, TXT, CNAME, NS, SOA, SRV, CAA), PTR reverse, and WHOIS.
SKILL.mdskills/dns-tools/SKILL.md
GitHubDNS Tools
Low-level DNS lookups and WHOIS. Backed by the dns-tools extension using
hickory-resolver (pure Rust, no dig binary).
Use when
- "What's the A/MX/TXT/NS record for
domain.tld?" - "Reverse lookup
1.2.3.4" - "Who owns this domain?" (WHOIS)
- Verifying DNS propagation after a Cloudflare change
Do not use when
- Modifying records — use
cloudflare(or the relevant provider skill) - Deep port scans or HTTP probing — use
endpoint-check/fetch-url
Tools
status— resolver inforesolve—name+ optionaltype(A default). Supports A/AAAA/CNAME/MX/TXT/NS/SOA/SRV/CAAreverse—ip→ PTR nameswhois—domain; querieswhois.iana.orgthen follows referral to the TLD server
Notes
- Resolver reads
/etc/resolv.conf; falls back to Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 if missing - WHOIS body is truncated at 8 KB