DNS Esoterica – Why you can't dig Switzerland

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  • chaosnet-bridge

    Bridge program for various Chaosnet link implementations.

  • You should probably get https://github.com/bictorv/chaosnet-bridge up and running. http://chaosnet.net/ has some instructions. I did this the other day, so I can confirm it's doable.

  • Highlight.js

    JavaScript syntax highlighter with language auto-detection and zero dependencies.

  • I got excited when I saw the nicely coloured output from dig which makes it more readable. I thought that maybe the author has some new version that’s not yet available on Ubuntu LTS. Unfortunately, the nice colours are from judicious use of highlight.js¹ – one good reason to have uMatrix configured to allow first-party JavaScript!

    ¹ https://highlightjs.org/

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  • dog

    A command-line DNS client.

  • There's this, which is a more modern dig, with color output, among other things: https://github.com/ogham/dog

    There's also stuff like this, which will postprocess & color output from any command: https://github.com/garabik/grc, or https://github.com/armandino/TxtStyle

  • grc

    generic colouriser

  • There's this, which is a more modern dig, with color output, among other things: https://github.com/ogham/dog

    There's also stuff like this, which will postprocess & color output from any command: https://github.com/garabik/grc, or https://github.com/armandino/TxtStyle

  • TxtStyle

    Command-line tool for colorizing console output and log files based on regular expressions

  • There's this, which is a more modern dig, with color output, among other things: https://github.com/ogham/dog

    There's also stuff like this, which will postprocess & color output from any command: https://github.com/garabik/grc, or https://github.com/armandino/TxtStyle

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    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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