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authorDonald Cooley <chytraeu@sdf.org>2018-02-01 05:59:32 +0700
committerWilly Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org>2018-02-01 05:59:32 +0700
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+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
+
+ ┌──────────────────┐
+ ∨ │
+┌────────────┐ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ ┌───────────────────┐
+│ 192.0.32.8 │ ──> ┃ www.iana.org ┃ ──> │ 2620:0:2d0:200::8 │
+└────────────┘ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛ └───────────────────┘
+ ∧ │
+ └────────────────────┘