Dumb dig clone in Rust

Why write a DNS client When I started digging in to DNS, I thought it would be interesting to try implementing a very simple DNS client similar to dig, but using Rust. My goal was to better understand DNS at the protocol level. I wanted to know what bytes were being sent and received to drive the system. The final result is in this repo). In the rest of the post, I’ll detail what I found out along the way....

February 19, 2018