dns-tools

name	DNS Tools
description	Resolve DNS records (A, AAAA, MX, TXT, CNAME, NS, SOA, SRV, CAA), PTR reverse, and WHOIS.
requires	{"bins":[],"env":[]}

DNS 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 info
• resolve — name + optional type (A default). Supports A/AAAA/CNAME/MX/TXT/NS/SOA/SRV/CAA
• reverse — ip → PTR names
• whois — domain; queries whois.iana.org then 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