DNSApe is a fast, no-nonsense network diagnostics toolkit built for developers, sysadmins, and security researchers.
Version History
2.0 - 2025-12-19
Complete rewrite
- Rebuilt with Laravel 12, Livewire 3, and Tailwind CSS 4
- Live ping monitoring with real-time Chart.js visualization
- Email Security tool: SPF, DKIM, DMARC validation
- REST API with JSON responses (60 req/min)
- MCP server for AI assistant integration (Claude, ChatGPT, etc.)
- Slack integration with /dns, /whois, /ssl slash commands
- Help tooltips explaining each tool and record type
- Shareable ping sessions with unique URLs
- Pretty/Raw view toggle with persistent preference
- Browser-based ping for client-side latency testing
- Enhanced WHOIS with domain + IP info combined
- Improved SSL certificate error handling
- Full-width responsive layout
Version 2.1 with performance improvements and bug fixes coming soon.
1.1.3 - 2019-04-30
- Moved to new infrastructure, resolving most DNS Traversal issues
- Replaced RBL with SSL validation tool
1.1.2 - 2019-04-17
- Fixed DNS Traversal issue causing many requests to fail
1.1.1 - 2019-04-16
- Minor UI adjustments
- Added links to lookups in DNS results
- Updated dependencies
- Increased session timeout to 1 week to eliminate 419 errors
- Updated IP address display
- Removed dnsape.com as default lookup
1.1 - 2019-02-15
- Several UI adjustments
- Dark mode setting is persistent between sessions via cookie
- Added GDPR cookie banner for session cookies
- Added tool to show client IP in lookup field (settings menu)
- Keyboard shortcuts for tools, focusing, text size, copying URLs
- Shareable lookup URLs - browser address changes with tool usage
- Added links to Github repo and feature voting
- Several error handling and bug fixes
1.0.7 - 2019-01-11
- Fixed HTTP Headers issue with multiple HTTPS redirects
1.0.6 - 2019-01-09
- HTTP Headers now forward to and display HTTPS headers
- UI adjustments
1.0.4 - 2019-01-07
- TLD and subdomain validation fixes
1.0.3 - 2019-01-06
- Updated DNS Cache host list
- IP address validation improvements
- Fixed progress bar bug with failed queries
- UI adjustments
1.0.2 - 2019-01-05
- IPWhois and Ping now work with IP addresses as well as hostnames
- Several validation enhancements reduce errors for many lookups
- Several UI adjustments
1.0.1 - 2019-01-04
- Added Recent Updates panel
- Fixed Whois search for many TLDs
- Fixed DNS Traversal for many TLDs
- Changed to fluid viewport width
- Added Privacy Policy