dns.toys is a DNS server that takes creative liberties with the DNS protocol to offer handy utilities and services that are easily accessible via the command line.

For docs, visit www.dns.toys

dig help @dns.toys

dig mumbai.time @dns.toys

dig 2023-05-28T14:00-bengaluru-berlin/de.time @dns.toys

dig newyork.weather @dns.toys

dig 42km-mi.unit @dns.toys

dig 100USD-INR.fx @dns.toys

dig ip @dns.toys

dig 987654321.words @dns.toys

dig pi @dns.toys

dig 100dec-hex.base @dns.toys

dig fun.dict @dns.toys

dig A12.9352,77.6245/12.9698,77.7500.aerial @dns.toys

You can use Resolve-DnsName cmdlet in Windows PowerShell to interact with @dns-toys:

• Open PowerShell

  • Press Win + X and select Windows PowerShell.

• Use Resolve-DnsName

  • Get the current time in a city:

    Resolve-DnsName -Name mumbai.time -Server dns.toys

  • Check the weather:

    Resolve-DnsName -Name newyork.weather -Server dns.toys

  • Convert units:

    Resolve-DnsName -Name 42km-mi.unit -Server dns.toys

  • Currency conversion:

    Resolve-DnsName -Name 100USD-INR.fx -Server dns.toys

• Format the Output:

  • To make the output more readable, you can format it using Format-List:

    Resolve-DnsName -Name mumbai.time -Server dns.toys | Format-List

• Install dig Utility:

  • You can install the dig utility, which is part of the BIND tools, using a package manager like Chocolatey:

    choco install bind-toolsonly

• Using dig with @dns-toys

  Once dig is installed, you can use it to query @dns-toys. Here are some examples:

• Get the current time in a city:

  dig mumbai.time @dns.toys

• Currency conversion:

  dig 100USD-INR.fx @dns.toys

• Clone the repo
• Copy config.sample.toml to config.toml and edit the config
• Make sure you have a copy of the cities15000.txt file at the root of this directory (instructions are in the config.sample.toml file)
• Make sure to download the wordnet from Wordnet website.(more instructions are in the config.sample.toml file)
• Extract the tarball and rename extracted the directory to wordnet
• Run make build to build the binary and then run ./dnstoys.bin
• Query against the locally running server

    dig <query> +short @127.0.0.1 -p 5354

• DnsToys.NET - A .net client library for the service.