514-labs/dnsglobe v0.5.0

0.5.0 - 2026-08-07

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Release Notes

Changed

• The resolver table now fits an 80-column terminal without cropping
  anything that matters: resolver IPs are shown in full, the numeric columns
  (Ping, TTL, Exp) are right-aligned so their digits line up, units that the
  header already implies are gone, and where there isn't room for the
  spelled-out status the verdict moves to a glyph in the left margin
  (✓ ≠ ! ↻ ∅ ✗) — one place to scan for failures. The round-trip column is
  now headed Ping (it was Time). Wider terminals are unchanged: they keep
  the status word, the same answer column and the same map/globe thresholds.
  --once matches: it prints the same name/location/IP column widths as the
  TUI and right-aligns its TTL, so the two views line up.
  (#33,
  #40)
• The per-row expiry countdown is coarse: at most two digits and a unit
  (59s, 1m, 59m, 1h, 23h, 1d, 99d). A whole column of seconds
  ticking out of unison was a distraction, and above a minute the exact
  second never changed what you'd do. The TTL advisory notes still quote the
  precise figure (TTL ≈ 2h23m).
  (#33,
  #40)
• Failures now show as a white-on-red badge — on the status glyph and word in
  the table, and on the not a domain name label under a malformed input —
  rather than red text, which went washed-out on terminal themes with a
  mid-toned background (macOS Terminal's "Ocean"). Only the marker is
  filled — error messages, map dots, the propagation gauge and slow ping
  times keep the plain red, so the table doesn't turn into a wall of red
  bars. theme.error accepts the new "<fg> on <bg>" form (for example
  error = "black on 208"); a plain color still works and means no badge.
  (#33,
  #40)
• Anycast site discovery now asks every resolver for its NSID (RFC 5001)
  first — a standard EDNS option servers answer with their own node name —
  and only falls back to the old operator-specific id.server probes when
  that names no place. More resolvers report where they actually answered
  from: Lumen shows →JFK, CIRA Canadian Shield →YYZ, DNS4EU →AMS and
  DNS.SB →KIX where they used to show only the operator's home region.
  Resolvers you add yourself in the config file can now report a site too,
  since NSID needs no per-operator support, and Google's site takes one
  query instead of two. Nothing that already resolved to a site changed.
  (#36,
  #39)

Fixed

• Names with an underscore in the middle of a label are queried instead of
  failing on every resolver with protocol error: Label contains invalid character. Underscores are legal anywhere in a DNS label — the
  letter-digit-hyphen rule is about hostnames, not the DNS wire format — so
  the delegated SPF/DMARC hosts that EasyDMARC, Valimail and friends generate
  (_spf.514_ax._d.example.com) now resolve like they do in dig. Default
  and --ecs runs accept exactly the same set of names; previously only
  --ecs handled these.
  (#34,
  #37)
• A domain that really is malformed (an empty label, a label over 63
  characters) is now reported once — as a startup error for a name given on
  the command line, or in place of the propagation gauge for one typed in the
  TUI — instead of filling the table with one identical error per resolver,
  which read like a network outage.
  (#37)
• The TTL note no longer lets a single resolver speak for the zone. It used to
  report the longest TTL any agreeing resolver returned, so one resolver
  handing back an invented 8423s turned a 300s zone into "TTL ≈ 2h23m" and
  advised lowering a TTL that was already low. The estimate now ignores
  reports wildly out of line with the rest of the fleet (never more than a
  tenth of it), and any resolver that reported one is named on the note line
  with what it claims — that cache really will serve the old answer after a
  change, and it is worth knowing which one it is.
  (#35,
  #38)

Install dnsglobe 0.5.0

Install prebuilt binaries via shell script

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/514-labs/dnsglobe/releases/download/v0.5.0/dnsglobe-installer.sh | sh

Install prebuilt binaries via Homebrew

brew install 514-labs/tap/dnsglobe

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