DNSGRAM(1)

💖 DNSGRAM(1) — the PowerDNS Authoritative Server glow-up 💖

okay bestie, welcome to dnsgram from the PowerDNS Authoritative Server era 🦋 it's a whole manual page, it's giving debug-tool realness, and yes you're gonna read all of it, no skimming 🙈

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✨ NAME ✨

dnsgram — a debugging tool for intermittent resolver failures 🔍💀

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

dnsgram INFILE...

like. that's it. that's the whole vibe. feed it files, it does the thing 💅

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

okay so here's the tea ☕ dnsgram takes one or more INFILEs in PCAP format 🫶

and then — and this is the iconic part — it generates statistics on 5 second segments ⏱️✨

which lets you study intermittent resolver issues 🧚

that's right. the flaky stuff. the "it works on my machine but only on Tuesdays" stuff 😭 the resolver that ghosts you and then shows up three requests later like nothing happened 💀 dnsgram is literally built to catch that behaviour in 5-second slices. main character energy fr fr 👑

not me being obsessed with a tool whose entire personality is "5 second segments" but here we are 💖

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• None — nope. zero. nada. no flags, no -h, no --help, nothing 🍓 there are no options. that's the whole list. the list is empty. periodt ✋

so if you were scrolling looking for flags to tweak, bestie there are none — the command line is just the files and that's the whole fit 🌈

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• pcap(3PCAP) 📦
• tcpdump(8) 🕵️

go read those if you wanna know where your PCAP files are coming from, iykyk 💜

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

PowerDNS.COM BV 💖

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⭐ COPYRIGHT ⭐

PowerDNS.COM BV 🌈

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okay so that's the page!! and before you go — the lil' sign-off at the bottom of the original says this is the PowerDNS Authoritative Server manual, dated Aug 05, 2026 🎀 so like, mark your calendar bestie, and go slice some PCAPs into 5 second segments 🌸🦋💅