doggo

A command-line DNS client with colorized tabular output and support for modern DNS protocols including DoH, DoT, DoQ, and DNSCrypt.

Author: Karan Sharma
Alternative to: dig (See 1 other)
Language: Go
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doggo is a modern command-line DNS client inspired by dog, written in Go. It provides human-readable, color-coded tabular output and supports a wide range of DNS transport protocols beyond standard UDP/TCP.

  • Supports DoH, DoT, DoQ, TCP, UDP, and DNSCrypt
  • JSON output for scripting and parsing
  • Reverse DNS lookups
  • EDNS support: Client Subnet (ECS), NSID, Cookies, Padding, Extended DNS Errors
  • Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) with automatic punycode conversion
  • Multiple resolvers with customizable query strategies
  • Shell completions for zsh and fish
  • Web interface at doggo.mrkaran.dev for browser-based queries
  • Response time (RTT) measurement
doggo DNS query output with colorized tabular formatting
doggo DNS query output with colorized tabular formatting

Basic usage

# Simple DNS lookup.
doggo example.com

# Query MX records using a specific nameserver.
doggo MX github.com @9.9.9.9

# Query over DNS-over-HTTPS.
doggo example.com @https://cloudflare-dns.com/dns-query

# JSON output for scripting.
doggo example.com --json | jq '.responses[0].answers[].address'

# Reverse DNS lookup.
doggo --reverse 8.8.8.8 --short