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NAME dnsscope – A PowerDNS nameserver debugging tool SYNOPSIS dnsscope [infile] DESCRIPTION dnsscope takes an infile in PCAP format. It generates some simple statistics outputs these to STDOUT. OPTIONS None. SEE ALSO pcap(3PCAP), tcpdump(8) AUTHORS This manpage was written by Joerg Jungermann (jj+debian At borkum.net) for the Debian Project and the PowerDNS versatile DNS server….
NAME dnsreplay – A PowerDNS nameserver debugging tool SYNOPSIS dnsreplay [options] filename ip-address [port] DESCRIPTION This program takes recorded questions and answers and replays them to a specified nameserver and reporting afterwards which percentage of answers matched, were worse or better. filename is expected to be an PCAP file. The queries are send to the…
SYNOPSIS dnsqr [OPTIONS] <record-type> <domain-name> DESCRIPTION dnsqr lets you query for specific type of records about a given domain name. dnsqr supports the following options: OPTIONS -h –help print this help -v –version print version information RECORD TYPES A record-type could be any of the following types A Returns an IPv4 host address for the…
SYNOPSIS dnsq [OPTIONS] <record-type> <domain-name> <name-server> DESCRIPTION dnsq lets you query a DNS server for specific type of records about a given domain name. dnsq supports the following options: OPTIONS -h –help print this help -v –version print version information RECORD TYPES A record-type could be any of the following types A Returns an IPv4…
NAME dnsperf – test the performance of a DNS server SYNOPSIS dnsperf [-a local_addr] [-b bufsize] [-c clients] [-d datafile] [-D] [-e] [-f family] [-h] [-l limit] [-n runs_through_file] [-p port] [-q num_queries] [-Q max_qps] [-s server_addr] [-S stats_interval] [-t timeout] [-T threads] [-u] [-v] [-x local_port] [-y [alg:]name:secret] DESCRIPTION dnsperf is a DNS server performance testing tool. It is primarily intended for measuring the performance of authoritative DNS servers, but it…
SYNOPSIS dnsname [OPTIONS] <address> [<address> …] DESCRIPTION dnsname is a handy tool to resolve name of the DNS server. You can pass IP address of a DNS server and dnsname would resolve it for you. OPTIONS -h –help print this help -v –version print version information BUGS Report bugs to <pj.pandit [at] yahoo.co.in> Manual Author…
SYNOPSIS dnsipq [OPTIONS] <domain-name> [<domain-name> …] DESCRIPTION dnsipq accepts a list of fully qualified domain names, resolves each of them and prints a record of the form: <domain-name> <ip-address> for each domain name. OPTIONS -h –help print this help -v –version print version information BUGS Report bugs to <pj.pandit [at] yahoo.co.in> Manual Author Prasad J Pandit…
SYNOPSIS dnsip [OPTIONS] <domain-name> [<domain-name> …] DESCRIPTION dnsip serves the sole task of resolving a given domain-name to it’s IPv4 address. dnsip supports following options: OPTIONS -h –help print this help -n –new use new output style -v –version print version information BUGS Report bugs to <pj.pandit [at] yahoo.co.in> Manual Author Prasad J Pandit Index
NAME dnsget – DNS lookup utility SYNOPSYS dnsget [-v|-q] [-c class] [-t type] [-o opt,opt,…] name… DESCRIPTION dnsget is a simple command-line to perform DNS lookups, similar to host(1) and dig(1). It is useable for both interactive/debugging scenarious and in scripts. The program is implemented using udns(3) library. By default, dnsget produces a human-readable output,…
SYNOPSIS dnsfilter [OPTIONS] DESCRIPTION dnsfilter does the opposite of dnsip. It inverse queries the DNS to convert a given IP address to the corresponding host name. When a query returns the host name, dnsfilter prints the result as <ip-address>=<host-name> and in case of any error it goes like <ip-address>:<error-message> OPTIONS -c <number> do <number> queries in parallel…
NAME hostname – show or set the system’s host name domainname – show or set the system’s NIS/YP domain name ypdomainname – show or set the system’s NIS/YP domain name nisdomainname – show or set the system’s NIS/YP domain name dnsdomainname – show the system’s DNS domain name SYNOPSIS hostname [-a|–alias] [-d|–domain] [-f|–fqdn|–long] [-A|–all-fqdns] [-i|–ip-address]…
NAME dnsdist – tool to balance DNS queries over downstream servers SYNOPSIS dnsdist [OPTION]… ADDRESS… DESCRIPTION dnsdist receives DNS queries and relays them to one or more downstream servers. It subsequently sends back responses to the original requestor. dnsdist operates over TCP and UDP, and strives to deliver very high performance over both. Currently, queries…
NAME dmxtodmx – dmx configuration file parser and printer SYNOPSIS dmxtodmx DESCRIPTION dmxtodmx reads the standard input, parsing a configuration file for the Xdmx distributed multi-head X server. After a successful parse, the file is pretty-printed to standard output. SEE ALSO Xdmx(1), vdltodmx(1), xdmxconfig(1) Index
NAME dmtxwrite – create Data Matrix barcodes SYNOPSIS dmtxwrite [OPTION]… [FILE] DESCRIPTION dmtxwrite encodes data from a file or standard input, and writes the resulting ECC200 Data Matrix barcode as an image. OPTIONS -c, –codewords Print codeword listing instead of creating barcode. -d, –module=N Module size in pixels. -m, –margin=N Margin size in pixels. -e,…
NAME dmtxread – scan Data Matrix barcodes SYNOPSIS dmtxread [options] [FILE]… DESCRIPTION dmtxread searches the named input FILEs (or standard input if no files are named or the filename "-" is given) for ECC200 Data Matrix barcodes, reads their contents, and writes the decoded messages to standard output. OPTIONS -c, –codewords Only print the codewords…
NAME dmtxquery – extract information from dmtxread output SYNOPSIS dmtxquery PROPERTY [OPTION]… [FILE]… DESCRIPTION dmtxquery extracts information from the XML output from dmtxread for individual or grouped barcode scan results. PROPERTY barcode.count count of all barcodes found in image barcode.N.BPROP print BPROP property of Nth barcode message.count count of all messages found in image message.N.MPROP…
NAME dmp – translate Troff output to low-level MetaPost input SYNOPSIS dmp [option] ditrofffile [mpxfile] DESCRIPTION This manual page is not meant to be exhaustive. The complete documentation for this version of TeX can be found in the info file or manual Web2C: A TeX implementation. The dmp program generates MetaPost source code from the…
NAME dmesg – print or control the kernel ring buffer SYNOPSIS dmesg [options] dmesg –clear dmesg –read-clear [options] dmesg –console-level level dmesg –console-on dmesg –console-off DESCRIPTION dmesg is used to examine or control the kernel ring buffer. The default action is to display all messages from the kernel ring buffer. OPTIONS The –clear, –read-clear, –console-on,…
NAME dmenu – dynamic menu SYNOPSIS dmenu [-bfiv] [-l lines] [-m monitor] [-p prompt] [-fn font] [-nb color] [-nf color] [-sb color] [-sf color] [-w windowid] dmenu_run … DESCRIPTION dmenu is a dynamic menu for X, which reads a list of newline-separated items from stdin. When the user selects an item and presses Return, their…
NAME dmascc_cfg – Configure dmascc devices SYNOPSIS dmascc <interface> [<options>] DESCRIPTION dmascc_cfg is used to configure dmascc devices such as PI2 and PackeTwin cards. The –show option can be used by any user, all other options must be used by root. OPTIONS –speed frequency Set frequency of baud rate generator to frequency. A value of…