SPLITDNS323FW(1)

💖 SPLITDNS323FW(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the User Commands section, we're talking about splitdns323fw and honestly? she's a baddie. lowercase name, lowercase energy, lowercase filenames. let's get into it 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

splitdns323fw — extract data from DNS-323 (and other) firmware images 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

splitdns323fw [-k KERNEL] [-i INITRD] [-d DEFAULTS] firmwarefile

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so what she does is, splitdns323fw parses an existing firmware image for a device like the D-Link DNS-323, the DNS-321, and the Conceptronics CH3SNAS. iconic lineup fr fr 👑

by default — like, if the only thing you hand her is the firmwarefile — the script verifies the checksums of the components inside and then prints a whole bunch of useful info about the image. vibe check: passed ✅

but if you specify one or more of the other options? then the corresponding section of the firmware image gets written out to that file instead. it's giving "choose your own adventure" 💅

• -k kernel, --kernel=kernel — write the kernel part of the firmware image to the file you specified. no cap, just the kernel.
• -i initrd, --initrd=initrd — write the initrd part of the firmware image to the file you specified. the little baby boot filesystem gets her own file 🌸
• -d defaults.tar.gz, --defaults=defaults.tar.gz — write the defaults part of the firmware image to the file you specified. defaults, but make it a whole separate file 🫶

🐛 BUGS 🐛

found a bug? e-mail bug reports to theshed+dns323-firmware-tools@hezmatt.org. no promises that he can actually help you, but he will give it a shot. and honestly, patches are far more helpful than a bug report, so if you can, send the fix too 🙈

👑 AUTHOR 👑

splitdns323fw was written by Matt Palmer, based on reverse-engineering work done by Leschinsky Oleg. two legends, one firmware parser ✨

💀 COPYRIGHT 💀

Copyright © 2008 Matt Palmer.

This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, to the extent permitted by law.

bestie. read that again. NO warranty. not even the merchantability one. not even the fitness-for-a-particular-purpose one. so cute, so legal, so not liable 😭

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

mkimage(1), mkdns323fw(1).

and that's the whole page, bestie 🎀 this one's from dns323-firmware-tools version 0.3, dated November 2008 — yes she's vintage, yes she still ate, periodt 💖🧚‍♀️