Dnsyo
Dev tools
dns debugging
SHOW HN2013
56points
13comments
#456of 1,739 in 2013
Top 27%of 2013 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
3 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 2 critical, out of 9 comments about the project. Thread score +0.14.
Idea: 2 for, 1 againstExecution: 1 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful tool, saves relying on multiple services
From 2 comments
YES! Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou. It's a pain to rely on a bunch of different services to see if the DNS record has updated, so happy that this now exists.
thejosh on HNThis looks pretty cool, waiting for DNS to propagate is a PITA and should help mitigate those "works for me" scenarios relating to out-of-date nameservers.
jamescun on HN
Objections
Checks caching resolvers, not true propagation; sample is small
From 1 comment
"DNS propagation" is a really bad term that could conceivably cover two distinct things: 1. The "propagation" of fresh records from a domain's authoritative name servers to…
agwa on HN
Requests
Gzip or pre-download resolver list for speed
From 1 comment
Awesome tool Sam! You may want to consider having the code pull a gzip'd version of resolver-list.yml to speed things up. It's 240K uncompressed, but only ~49K compressed. And…
toomuchtodo on HN
Check authoritative servers for master-slave sync
From 1 comment
"DNS propagation" is a really bad term that could conceivably cover two distinct things: 1. The "propagation" of fresh records from a domain's authoritative name servers to…
agwa on HN
Host it on a server
From 1 comment
it would be nice if this was hosted on a server I tried to do something similar but far more basic with http://domain2ip.net But something like yours would be nicer.
hayksaakian on HN
Questions
Why whatsmydns.net did not work for one commenter
From 1 comment
I was unable to get this to work. Anyone?
LogicX on HN
Alternatives named
whatsmydns.net
From 1 comment
Related - https://www.whatsmydns.net/
gprasanth on HN
dns.squish.net
From 1 comment
This is a similar service, but will check your actual domain resolution as seen by hosts that never heard of the domain before: http://dns.squish.net/ It will not tell you…
viraptor on HN
domain2ip.net
From 1 comment
it would be nice if this was hosted on a server I tried to do something similar but far more basic with http://domain2ip.net But something like yours would be nicer.
hayksaakian on HN