“...I've been working since 2008 with Ruby / Ruby on Rails, love a bit of Elixir / Phoenix and learning Rust. I also poke through other people's code and make PRs for OpenSource Ruby projects that sometimes make it. Currently working for InPay who are based in Denmark...”

Rob Lacey
Senior Software Engineer, UK

DNS / host commands

Want a few simple DNS details for a domain from the command line?

Robs-iMac:~ roblacey$ host -t mx robl.me
robl.me mail is handled by 9 xen1.robl.me.
robl.me mail is handled by 10 mailforward.lcn.com.

Robs-iMac:~ roblacey$ host -t txt robl.me
robl.me descriptive text "google-site-verification=E4g5ZQVgm9j01RsxbiGISNBaOvtH614IHSF1RGHHGJE"

Robs-iMac:~ roblacey$ host -t a robl.me
robl.me has no A record

Robs-iMac:~ roblacey$ host -t a www.robl.me
www.robl.me is an alias for xen1.robl.me.
xen1.robl.me has address 207.192.74.149

Robs-iMac:~ roblacey$ host -t cname www.robl.me
www.robl.me is an alias for xen1.robl.me.