Julia EvansMar 10
examples for the tcpdump and dig man pages https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/03/10/examples-for-the-tcpdump-and-dig-man-pages/
Examples for the tcpdump and dig man pages

Examples for the tcpdump and dig man pages

Julia Evans
Show threadJakub Narębski

@b0rk The source code for `dig` manpage seems to be in reStructuredText, based on the *.rst extension... which GitLab mangles rendering of, not showing anything between "where:" and "Options" in "Simple usage".

Plain text is better: https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/bind9/-/blob/7c82cb0f14e530234f2e239f51e92be11285ecc7/bin/dig/dig.rst?plain=1#L63

bin/dig/dig.rst · 7c82cb0f14e530234f2e239f51e92be11285ecc7 · ISC Open Source Projects / BIND · GitLab

Welcome to the public repository for BIND 9 source code and issues. Classic, full-featured and mostly standards-compliant DNS.

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Show threadJulia EvansMar 11
@jnareb will try to find a better link to the rendered html output
Show threadJulia EvansMar 12
@jnareb Here's the right link, I updated the post https://bind9.readthedocs.io/en/stable/manpages.html#dig-dns-lookup-utility
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