dnsbulktest(1)

dnsbulktest1

A debugging tool for intermittent resolver failures

Usage

dnsbulktest [OPTION] ... IPADDRESS PORT [LIMIT]

Overview

dnsbulktest sends a large amount of different queries (for up to LIMIT different domains) to the nameserver at IPADDRESS on port PORT. It reads the domain names from STDIN in the Alexa topX format and outputs statistics on STDOUT.

Options

--help, -h

Show a summary of options.

--quiet, -q

Don't show information on individual queries.

--type,-t <TYPE>

Query the nameserver for TYPE, A by default.

--envoutput, -e

Write results on STDOUT as shell environment variables

--version

Display the version of dnsbulktest

Releases

6 releases since Debian 9 (Stretch); the text changed 5 times.

  1. 9
  2. 10
  3. 11
  4. 12
  5. 13
  6. Arch

Author

PowerDNS.COM BV

From powerdns 5.1.5-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.