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Show HN: Online DNS Client (nslookup.io)
1 point by pul on Oct 13, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



Hi HN!

Since Corona hit, I found myself with some extra free time, so I decided to start a new side project. I’ve been building, and recently launched, an online DNS client. There are many similar sites already, but I found most to be clunky and not user friendly at best. My design goal for nslookup.io is for it to be simple yet powerful.

Features

- All DNS types

- Authoritative queries, popular DNS caches (8.8.8.8 et. al.), and local DNS servers

- Autocomplete for the 1 million most popular domain names using Tranco [1]

- Browser plugins for all major browsers (except Safari) [2][3][4]

- Parsed and formatted output, or raw DNS responses

- Punycode [5] support

Tech

At the moment, I'm using Scala, ZIO, http4s, Vue with plain js, Docker, docker-compose, Vultr, CloudFlare, Gitlab CI, StatusCake and Humio and a couple of small open source projects. I think I’ll refactor the front-end to use webpack and typescript, but plain javascript got me started faster.

Ask me anything :)

[1] https://tranco-list.eu/list/YWVG/1000000

[2] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nslookup-find-dns-...

[3] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/nslookup/

[4] https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/nslookup-f...

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode




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