- I hope that future versions may also have the following features:
- * The library should be useable by threads in a multithreaded
- program in a natural way. It should multiplex many threads'
- queries through a single query socket.
- * IPv6 support.
- * Some kind of awareness of DNSSEC.
- * Possibly some very limited caching behaviour.
+ adns also comes with a number of utility programs for use from the
+ command line and in scripts:
+ * adnslogres is a much faster version of Apache's logresolv program.
+ * adnsresfilter is a filter which copies its input to its output,
+ replacing IP addresses by the corresponding names, without unduly
+ delaying the output. For example, you can usefully pipe the output
+ of netstat -n, tcpdump -ln, and the like, into it.
+ * adnshost is a general-purpose DNS lookup utility which can be used
+ easily in from the command line and from shell scripts to do
+ simple lookups. In a more advanced mode it can be used as a
+ general-purpose DNS helper program for scripting languages which
+ can invoke and communicate with subprocesses. See the [1]adnshost
+ usage message for a summary of its capabilities.