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The Landscape of Malicious Open Source Packages: 2025 Mid‑Year Threat Report
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dns-over-https
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Resolve DNS records via the Google Public DNS HTTPS API
yarn add dns-over-https
import resolveRecord from 'dns-over-https';
import caw from 'caw';
(async () => {
const a = await resolveRecord('google.com'); // resolves for A records
const aaaa = await resolveRecord('google.com', 'AAAA'); // resolves for AAAA records
const txt = await resolveRecord('google.com', 'TXT', {
disableDNSSEC: true,
EDNSClientSubnet: '0.0.0.0/0',
// allows you to pass additional request headers
headers: {
'user-agent': 'custom'
},
// allows you to pass additional request options
requestOptions: {
agent: caw({ protocol: 'https' }) // enables proxy support
}
});
})();
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Resolve DNS records via the Google Public DNS HTTPS API
We found that dns-over-https demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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