DNS Lookup Tool

Professional DNS lookup CLI with beautiful Rich terminal output. Query DNS records, perform reverse lookups, trace resolution paths, and retrieve WHOIS information.

Features

• Multi-Record Queries: Query A, AAAA, MX, NS, TXT, CNAME, SOA records
• Reverse DNS: IP to hostname resolution
• DNS Trace: Visualize the resolution path from root to authoritative servers
• Batch Lookups: Query multiple domains concurrently
• WHOIS Integration: Domain registration information
• JSON Export: Machine-readable output for scripting
• Beautiful Output: Color-coded tables, spinners, and tree visualizations

Installation

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/CarterPerez-dev/Cybersecurity-Projects.git
cd PROJECTS/dns-lookup

# Install with uv
uv sync

# Or install with pip

python -m venv .venv

source .venv/bin/activate

pip install -e .

Usage

Basic DNS Query

# Query all record types
dnslookup query example.com

# Query specific record types
dnslookup query example.com --type A,MX,TXT

# Use custom DNS server
dnslookup query example.com --server 8.8.8.8

# Output as JSON
dnslookup query example.com --json

Reverse DNS Lookup

# IPv4
dnslookup reverse 8.8.8.8

# IPv6
dnslookup reverse 2606:4700:4700::1111

DNS Trace

Trace the resolution path from root servers to authoritative nameservers:

dnslookup trace example.com
dnslookup trace example.com --type MX

Batch Lookups

Query multiple domains from a file:

# Create a file with domains (one per line)
echo -e "google.com\ngithub.com\ncloudflare.com" > domains.txt

# Run batch lookup
dnslookup batch domains.txt

# Save results to JSON
dnslookup batch domains.txt --output results.json

WHOIS Lookup

dnslookup whois example.com
dnslookup whois google.com --json

Example Output

DNS Query

🌐 DNS Lookup: example.com
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

┌──────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ DNS Records                              │
├──────┬───────────────────────┬───────────┤
│ Type │ Value                 │ TTL       │
├──────┼───────────────────────┼───────────┤
│ A    │ 93.184.216.34         │ 1h        │
│ AAAA │ 2606:2800:220:1:...   │ 1h        │
│ MX   │ mail.example.com (10) │ 1d        │
│ NS   │ ns1.example.com       │ 2d        │
└──────┴───────────────────────┴───────────┘

✓ Found 8 records in 45ms

DNS Trace

🔍 DNS Trace: example.com
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

🌍 DNS Resolution Path
├── [.] Root
│   └── → a.root-servers.net (198.41.0.4)
│       └── Referred to com. servers
├── [com.] TLD
│   └── → a.gtld-servers.net (192.5.6.30)
│       └── Referred to example.com NS
└── [example.com.] Authoritative
    └── → ns1.example.com (93.184.216.34)
        └── A: 93.184.216.34

✓ Resolution complete: 93.184.216.34

Development

# Install dev dependencies
just install-dev

# Run the tool
just run query example.com

# Run tests
just test

# Lint code
just lint

# Format code
just ruff-fix

# Run all checks
just ci

Available Commands

Few Examples

License

MIT License - See LICENSE for details.

Author

CarterPerez-dev