Debug DNS resolution, network connectivity, and HTTP issues. Covers dig/nslookup, port testing, firewall rules, curl diagnostics, /etc/hosts, proxy configuration, and certificate troubleshooting.
Dns Networking is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the network-security sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/dns-networking/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: Use when troubleshooting DNS failures, testing port connectivity, diagnosing firewall rules, inspecting HTTP requests with curl verbose mode, configuring /etc/hosts, or debugging proxy and certificate issues.
The Dns Networking Claude Code skill is built for security engineers, penetration testers, DevSecOps practitioners, and development teams hardening codebases and infrastructure. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 70,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/dns-networking curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/dns-networking/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/dns-networking/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/dns-networking/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/dns-networking/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\dns-networking\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.
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If you reference this skill in a blog post, paper, or documentation, you can cite it as:
@misc{dns-networking-2026,
author = {ClaudSkills},
title = {Dns Networking [Claude Code skill]},
year = {2026},
publisher = {ClaudSkills},
url = {https://claudskills.com/skills/dns-networking/}
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