DNSTAP(1)

✨ NAME ✨

dnstap — the dnstap tool, bestie 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

dnstap [OPTION]...

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Okay so real talk, dnstap is the little tool that reads and writes dnstap payloads, and it's giving main character energy. Here's literally every knob it has:

• -T value — write dnstap payloads to tcp/ip address
• -U value — write dnstap payloads to unix socket
• -a — append to the given file, do not overwrite. valid only when outputting a text or YAML file.
• -j — use verbose JSON output
• -l value — read dnstap payloads from tcp/ip
• -q — use quiet text output
• -r value — read dnstap payloads from file
• -t duration — I/O timeout for tcp/ip and unix domain sockets
• -u value — read dnstap payloads from unix socket
• -w string — write output to file
• -y — use verbose YAML output

Not me reminding you that -a is only valid when you're outputting a text or YAML file, so don't come for it in JSON mode okay? 🫶

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🔤 Quiet text output format mnemonics 🔤

When you're in quiet text output mode, every payload gets a tiny two-letter glow-up, and here's the decoder ring, no cap:

• AQ: AUTH_QUERY
• AR: AUTH_RESPONSE
• RQ: RESOLVER_QUERY
• RR: RESOLVER_RESPONSE
• CQ: CLIENT_QUERY
• CR: CLIENT_RESPONSE
• FQ: FORWARDER_QUERY
• FR: FORWARDER_RESPONSE
• SQ: STUB_QUERY
• SR: STUB_RESPONSE
• TQ: TOOL_QUERY
• TR: TOOL_RESPONSE

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That's the whole page, periodt. This iconic lil' manpage is from the dnstap manual — User Commands section, iykyk — and it's stamped dnstap 0.4.0, January 2024. Slay, go read some payloads 💖✨🦋