DNSSCAN(1)

✨ DNSSCAN(1) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to dnsscan 💅 — it's a lil tool from the PowerDNS Authoritative Server era and it does exactly one thing but it does it flawlessly. no cap. 🎀

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🌸 NAME 🌸

dnsscan — list the amount of queries per qtype in a pcap 🦋

like. that's it. that's the whole vibe. it reads your packet captures and tells you how many of each query type showed up. iconic behaviour honestly 👑

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

dnsscan INFILE...

one or more files, bestie. plural. she's flexible like that. ✨

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so here's the tea ☕ — dnsscan takes one or more *INFILE*s in PCAP format and generates a list of the number of queries per qtype.

that's literally it. feed her your pcap files, she hands you back a little tally of how many queries of each qtype were in there. it's giving "quiet overachiever". it's giving "doesn't need a whole manual". main character energy fr fr 💜

🫶 reminder: the files gotta be in PCAP format. she's not out here guessing.

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• None — nope! zero. nada. no flags, no switches, no secret menu. the way that she needs absolutely no configuration to function… obsessed 😌✨

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• pcap(3PCAP) 🍓
• tcpdump(8) 🌈

go read those if you wanna know more about the pcap situation, iykyk 💀

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

PowerDNS.COM BV 💖

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🌟 COPYRIGHT 🌟

PowerDNS.COM BV 🌸

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! go scan some pcaps, slay, periodt 💅✨🦋

dnsscan(1) — PowerDNS Authoritative Server — Aug 05, 2026 🎀 (yes that's the footer, she's cute, she's dated, she's done) 🫶