q

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Overview

Q is a small utility which acts and behaves like 'dig' from BIND. It is meant to stay lean and mean, while having a bunch of handy features, like -check which checks if a packet is correctly signed (without checking the chain of trust). When using -check a comment is printed:

;+ Secure signature, miek.nl. RRSIG(SOA) validates (DNSKEY miek.nl./4155/net)

which says the SOA has a valid RRSIG and it validated with the DNSKEY of miek.nl, which has key id 4155 and is retrieved from the server. Other values are 'disk'.