DNSPING(1)

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💖 DNSPING(1) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the General Commands Manual page for dnsping — yes, that's section 1, the user commands zone, and no, we are not skipping a single flag. sit down, grab a strawberry 🍓, and let's get into it.

✨ NAME ✨

dnsping — the DNS ping utility. it pings, but for DNS. it's giving bestie-with-a-stopwatch energy. 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so here's the whole vibe: dnsping pings a DNS resolver by sending an arbitrary DNS query for a given number of times. like, you pick the query, you pick how many times, and it goes brrr and measures everything.

and then — the main character moment — it calculates:

  • the minimum response time
  • the maximum response time
  • the average response time
  • and the jitter, which is the stddev 🦋

periodt. that's the whole personality.

🎀 USAGE 🎀

usage: dnsping [-h] [-q] [-v] [-s server] [-p port] [-P port] [-S address] [-c count] [-t type] [-w wait] hostname

that's the shape of it, fr fr. hostname at the end, always. 👑

💅 OPTIONS 💅

every single one, no skips, we don't do that here.

  • -h, --help — show this help. the "hello, what is this" button. 🫶
  • -q, --quiet — quiet mode. shhh. 🤫
  • -v, --verbose — print the actual DNS response. like, the real receipts. no cap. 🔍
  • -s, --server — which DNS server to use. default: first entry from /etc/resolv.conf. it just grabs the first one and goes. 🙈
  • -p, --port — DNS server port number. default: 53. the classic. 💫
  • -T, --tcp — use TCP instead of UDP. yes, TCP. she's reliable like that. ✨
  • -4, --ipv4 — use IPv4 as the default network protocol. old faithful. 💜
  • -6, --ipv6 — use IPv6 as the default network protocol. the long one, she's iconic. 🌈
  • -P, --srcport — query source port number. default: 0. (and yes, it's a capital P — lowercase p is the server port, don't mix them up bestie, i'm begging 😭)
  • -S, --srcip — query source IP address. default: default interface address — i.e. it just uses whatever your interface is already vibing with. 🧚
  • -c, --count — number of requests to send. default: 10. ten little pings, off into the void. 🎀
  • -w, --wait — maximum wait time for a reply. default: 5. after that, we're not waiting around, we have places to be. ⏳
  • -t, --type — DNS request record type. default: A. change it to whatever record type your heart desires. 🔥

🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

for more documentation on dnsping, see https://dnsdiag.org/. go read it, it's giving lore. 📚

and that's the page!! from the User Commands section, dated December 3 2016, signed off as DNSPING(1). mwah. 💋

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