&dhucpackage; &dhsection;

&dhpackage;

command-line frontend to dig

          &dhpackage;

          -f

          -v

          -d

          -t TYPE

          -m MATCH

          DNS_domain

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the `&dhpackage;` command.

This manual page was written for the &debian; distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

`&dhpackage;` is a program that works as a front-end to `dig`. Given a specific domain `&dhpackage;` will make several `dig` invocations to fetch a zone and it will format the output in in a somewhat sensible hierarchical style (a tree).

Information extracted from the DNS relies on being possible to fetch a zone through a zone transfer. If the DNS servers for the requested domain do not allow file transfers `&dhpackage;` will not be able to obtain information from the zone.

All data obtain is cached in ~/.DNS_BROWSE with an approximation of the usual DNS caching rules. Remove all files in that directory to prematurely flush the cache.

## OPTIONS

A summary of options is included below.

`-t `TYPE``

- Show only records of `TYPE`. This argument can be repeated to indicate multiple types. Use the "all" type to print all the known types.

`-m `MATCH``

- Show only records in which the first component matches the PERL regexpt `MATCH`.

`-h`

- Show summary of options.

`-v`

- Enable verbose mode. All DNS requests are printed in the standard error.

`-d`

- Enable debug output. Presents internal information of the program

`-f`

- Override warnings (force).

## SEE ALSO

dig (1), dns_browse (1), perlrequick (1).

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by &dhusername; &dhemail; for the &debian; system (and may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the &gnu; General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.