1DNSREPLAY(1) PowerDNS Authoritative Server DNSREPLAY(1)
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6 dnsreplay - A PowerDNS nameserver debugging tool
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9 dnsreplay [OPTION]... FILENAME ADDRESS [PORT]
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12 This program takes recorded questions and answers and replays them to
13 the specified nameserver and reporting afterwards which percentage of
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16 dnsreplay compares the answers and some other metrics with the actual
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19 By default it only replay queries with recursion-desired flag set.
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24 server specified as ADDRESS and PORT.
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27 IPv4 or IPv6 address of the nameserver to replay FILENAME to.
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29 PORT if omitted, 53 will be used.
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31 --help, -h
32 Show summary of options.
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34 --ecs-mask <VAL>
35 When EDNS forwarding an IP address, mask out first octet with
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39 Add original IP address as EDNS Client Subnet Option when for‐
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42 --pcap-dns-port <VAL>
43 Look at packets from or to this port in the PCAP. Default is 53.
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45 --packet-limit <NUM>
46 Stop after replaying NUM packets. Default for NUM is 0, which
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50 If FLAG is set to 1. dnsreplay will not be very noisy with its
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53 --recursive <FLAG>
54 If FLAG is set to 1. dnsreplay will only replay queries with re‐
55 cursion desired flag set. This is the default.
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57 --speedup <FACTOR>
58 Replay queries with this speedup FACTOR. Default is 1.
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60 --timeout-msec <MSEC>
61 Wait at least MSEC milliseconds for a reply. Default is 500.
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64 dnsreplay has no certain handling for timeouts. It handles around at
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68 pcap(3PCAP), tcpdump(8), dnswasher(1)
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79 Apr 12, 2022 DNSREPLAY(1)