Ldns drill

Performs DNS queries, like dig.
Written in C, apparently much faster.

Documentation

man drill	https://man.archlinux.org/man/drill.1
home	https://www.nlnetlabs.nl/projects/ldns/about/

Install

pacman -S ldns

Usage

# use DNS-server at 127.0.0.1 to retrieve DNS 'A' records from google.com
drill @127.0.0.1 \
  A google.com