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brianshea2/addr.tools

possibly useful tools for the Internet observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/brianshea2/addr.tools · homepage · Go · AGPL-3.0 (copyleft) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

68/100

  • Activity 98
  • Release rhythm 35
  • Longevity 60

Flags: no_releases

How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: n/a
  • age_days: 849
  • days_rel: n/a
  • days_push: 16
  • n_releases_24m: 0

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

2432 stars · 80 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A collection of free DNS-based Internet utilities (dynamic DNS, public IP lookup, ACME dns-01 challenge helper, DNS resolver testing) plus addrd, the custom Go DNS server powering them. The repo contains both the hosted services and the self-hostable DNS server source code.

Use cases

  • get my public IP address from the command line
  • dynamic DNS for my own domain without an account
  • solve dns-01 ACME challenges for wildcard certificates
  • check which DNS resolvers I'm using and whether DNSSEC validation works
  • self-host a custom authoritative DNS server in Go
  • look up identifying info for domains and IP addresses

When to choose

  • you need account-free dynamic DNS or a free subdomain for dynamic updates
  • you want a helper zone for Let's Encrypt dns-01 challenges
  • you want to debug or test DNS resolvers and DNSSEC behavior
  • you want a lightweight custom DNS server written in Go to self-host

When to avoid

  • you need a full-featured DNS server like BIND, PowerDNS, or CoreDNS with zone transfers and recursion
  • you need managed DNS hosting with a web control panel
  • you need dynamic DNS with authentication and multi-user account management

Facets

service · maturity active

networking http-server security networking developer-tools self-hosted security go self-hosted dns-server dynamic-dns acme-dns-01 dnssec public-ip-lookup dns-testing linux web-server

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