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 ascii +-------------------------+ v | ##################### +------------+ +> # www.iana.org # --> | 192.0.32.8 | | ##################### +------------+ | | | | | v | +-------------------+ +- | 2620:0:2d0:200::8 | +-------------------+