homer

A toy dns-over-https (doh) client.

huh?

dns-over-https is an experimental protocol for making DNS queries over https. Even though the protocol is experimental, the curl GitHub wiki has a list of public resolvers that already support it.

homer is a CLI client that makes DNS queries over https.

$ homer --resolver https://1.1.1.1/dns-query blinsay.com
blinsay.com. 1190 A 185.199.110.153
blinsay.com. 1190 A 185.199.109.153
blinsay.com. 1190 A 185.199.111.153
blinsay.com. 1190 A 185.199.108.153

Sometimes you don't know the IP address of the resolver you want to use and need to look it up using... DNS. Since dns-over-https is about privacy and security, homer lets you specify a DNS resolver you trust to do that initial lookup.

$ homer --bootstrap-resolver 1.1.1.1 --resolver https://dns.google.com/experimental github.com
github.com. 57 A 192.30.253.112

building and running

Download homer from the releases page on github.

Build homer with a working Go toolchain and go get github.com/blinsay/homer