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+dothost (DNS lookup utility with Graphviz output)
+
dothost is a DNS lookup utility, which produces output in Graphviz
format. It does this, not by using Graphviz, but by using the graph-easy
Perl module also available at slackbuilds.org
Example:
-dothost www.iana.org | graph-easy --as boxart
+dothost www.iana.org | graph-easy --as ascii
- ┌──────────────────┐
- ∨ │
-┌────────────┐ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ ┌───────────────────┐
-│ 192.0.32.8 │ ──> ┃ www.iana.org ┃ ──> │ 2620:0:2d0:200::8 │
-└────────────┘ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛ └───────────────────┘
- ∧ │
- └────────────────────┘
+ +-------------------------+
+ v |
+ ##################### +------------+
+ +> # www.iana.org # --> | 192.0.32.8 |
+ | ##################### +------------+
+ | |
+ | |
+ | v
+ | +-------------------+
+ +- | 2620:0:2d0:200::8 |
+ +-------------------+