dns-flood-detector(8)

dns-flood-detector8

Dns flood detection and alert tool

Usage

dns-flood-detector [{-b | -d}] [-v] [-h] [-i device] [-t n] [-a n] [-w n] [-x n] [-m n]

Overview

DNS Flood Detector was developed to detect abusive usage levels on high traffic nameservers and to enable quick response to the use of one's nameserver to facilitate spam.

Options

-b

run in foreground in bindsnap mode

-d

run in background in daemon mode

-v

verbose output - use again for more verbosity

-h

display help

-i device

specify device name to listen on

-t n

alarm at >n queries per second

-a n

reset alarm after n seconds

-w n

calculate stats every n seconds

-x n

create n buckets

-m n

report overall stats every n seconds

Releases

Unchanged in 10 releases since Debian 4.0 (Etch).

  1. 4.0–13

Author

DNS-FLOOD-DETECTOR was written by Dennis Opacki <[email protected]>.

This manual page was written by Jan Wagner <[email protected]>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

From dns-flood-detector 1.20-7+b2 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.