DNSBULKTEST(1)

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💖 DNSBULKTEST(1) 💖

okay bestie, so this is dnsbulktest(1), straight out of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server manual, and it's genuinely one of those little tools that just gets it. no cap.

✨ NAME ✨

dnsbulktest — a debugging tool for intermittent resolver failures 🌸

like, when your resolver is being flaky and you can't tell if it's you or the server, this is the thing that goes and finds out. main character energy, honestly.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

dnsbulktest [OPTION]... IPADDRESS PORT [LIMIT]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so here's the vibe. dnsbulktest throws a whole lot of different queries at a nameserver — for up to LIMIT different domains — and it sends them all to the nameserver sitting at IPADDRESS on port PORT. 🎯

it reads the domain names from STDIN in the Alexa topX format, and then it prints statistics out on STDOUT. that's it, that's the whole loop. feed it domains, watch the numbers, find out which resolver is being messy. 🔥

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • --help, -h — shows you a summary of the options. the "hi what do u do" button 🫶
  • --quiet, -q — don't show info on individual queries. just the silence, the stats, and the vibes ✨
  • --type,-t <TYPE> — ask the nameserver for TYPE. defaults to A, bestie 🌈
  • --envoutput, -e — write the results on STDOUT as shell environment variables 🍓
  • --version — display the version of dnsbulktest 👑

👑 AUTHOR 👑

PowerDNS.COM BV 💜

PowerDNS.COM BV

that's the whole page fr fr. it's from the PowerDNS Authoritative Server manual, dated Aug 05, 2026, and honestly? iconic. go debug those intermittent resolver failures, bestie, u got this 💖✨🎀🦋

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