dpa

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: 1 Nov 2005
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NAME

dpa - DNS Packet Analyzer. Analyze DNS packets in ip trace files

SYNOPSIS

dpa [ OPTION ] TRACEFILE

DESCRIPTION

dpa is used to analyze dns packets in trace files. It has 3 main options: count, filter, and count uniques (i.e. count all different occurences).

OPTIONS

-c expressionlist: Count occurrences of matching expressions
-f expression: Filter: only process packets that match the expression
-h: Show usage
-p: Show the total number of correct DNS packets, and percentage of -u and -c values (of the total of matching on the -f filter. if no filter is given, percentages are on all correct dns packets)
-of file: Write all packets that match the -f flag to file, as pcap data.
-ofh file: Write all packets that match the -f flag to file, in hexadecimal format, readable by drill.
-s: Show possible match names
-s matchname: show possible match operators and values for name
-sf: Only evaluate packets (in representation format) that match the -f filter. If no -f was given, evaluate all correct dns packets.
-u matchnamelist: Count every occurence of every value of the matchname (for instance, count all packetsizes, see EXAMPLES in ldns-dpa(1) ).
-ua: For every matchname in -u, show the average value of all matches. Behaviour for match types that do not have an integer value is undefined.
-uac: For every matchname in -u, show the average number of times this value was encountered.
-um number: Only show the results from -u for values that occurred more than <number> times.
-v level: Set verbosity to level (1-5, 5 being the highest). Mostly used for debugging.
-notip file: Write packets that were not recognized as IP packets to file (as pcap data).
-baddns file: Write dns packets that were too mangled to parse to file (as pcap data).
-version: Show version and exit

LIST AND MATCHES

A <matchnamelist> is a comma separated list of match names (use -s to see possible match names). A <expressionlist> is a comma separated list of expressions.

An expression has the following form: <expr>: (<expr>)
        <expr> | <expr>
        <expr> & <expr>
        <match>

<operator>:         =       equal to <value>
        !=      not equal to <value>
        >       greater than <value>
        <       lesser than <value>
        >=      greater than or equal to <value>
        <=      lesser than or equal to <value>
        ~=      contains <value>

See the -s option for possible matchnames, operators and values.

EXAMPLES

ldns-dpa -u packetsize -p test.tr

Count all different packetsizes in test.tr and show the precentages.

ldns-dpa -f "edns=1&qr=0" -of edns.tr test.tr

Filter out all edns enable queries in test.tr and put them in edns.tr

ldns-dpa -f edns=1 -c tc=1 -u rcode test.tr

For all edns packets, count the number of truncated packets and all their rcodes in test.tr.

ldns-dpa -c tc=1,qr=0,qr=1,opcode=QUERY test.tr

For all packets, count the number of truncated packets, the number of packets with qr=0, the number of packets with qr=1 and the number of queries in test.tr.

ldns-dpa -u packetsize -ua test.tr

Show all packet sizes and the average packet size per packet.

ldns-dpa -u srcaddress -uac test.tr

Show all packet source addresses and the average number of packets sent from this address.

sudo tcpdump -i eth0 -s 0 -U -w - port 53 | ldns-dpa -f qr=0 -sf

Print all query packets seen on the specified interface.

AUTHOR

Written by Jelte Jansen for NLnetLabs.

REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs to <jelte@nlnetlabs.nl>.

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