DNSREPLAY(1) PowerDNS Authoritative Server DNSREPLAY(1)

dnsreplay - A PowerDNS nameserver debugging tool

dnsreplay [OPTION]... FILENAME ADDRESS [PORT]

This program takes recorded questions and answers and replays them to the specified nameserver and reporting afterwards which percentage of answers matched, were worse or better.

dnsreplay compares the answers and some other metrics with the actual ones with those found in the dumpfile.

By default it only replay queries with recursion-desired flag set.

is expected to be an PCAP file. The queries are send to the DNS server specified as ADDRESS and PORT.
IPv4 or IPv6 address of the nameserver to replay FILENAME to.
if omitted, 53 will be used.

Show summary of options.
When EDNS forwarding an IP address, mask out first octet with this value
Add original IP address as EDNS Client Subnet Option when forwarding to reference server
Stop after replaying NUM packets. Default for NUM is 0, which means no limit.
Look at packets from or to this port in the PCAP. Default is 53.
If FLAG is set to 1. dnsreplay will not be very noisy with its output. This is the default.
If FLAG is set to 1. dnsreplay will only replay queries with recursion desired flag set. This is the default.
If FLAG is set to 1. dnsreplay will send the replayed queries from the source IP address and port present in the PCAP file. This requires IP_TRANSPARENT support. Default is 0 which means replayed queries will be sent from a local address.
Send the replayed queries from the source IP specified in VAL. Default is to send them from a local address.
Send the replayed queries from the source port specified in VAL. Default is to send from a random port selected by the kernel.
Replay queries with this speedup FACTOR. Default is 1.
Wait at least MSEC milliseconds for a reply. Default is 500.

dnsreplay has no certain handling for timeouts. It handles around at most 65536 outstanding answers.

pcap(3PCAP), tcpdump(8), dnswasher(1)

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October 5, 2023