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update documentation about our pdns-tools
authorbert hubert <bert.hubert@netherlabs.nl>
Fri, 26 Jul 2013 12:30:16 +0000 (14:30 +0200)
committerbert hubert <bert.hubert@netherlabs.nl>
Fri, 26 Jul 2013 12:30:16 +0000 (14:30 +0200)
pdns/docs/pdns.xml

index d88d26e5c315dbcf19bbee5a978eefbf6bf148f1..5968b657817f721088d0877929166f704e7f575a 100755 (executable)
@@ -16873,12 +16873,7 @@ This setting will make PowerDNS renotify the slaves after an AXFR is *received*
   <chapter id="analysis"><title>Tools to analyse DNS traffic</title>
     <para>
       DNS is highly mission critical, it is therefore necessary to be able to study and compare DNS traffic. Since version 2.9.18, PowerDNS comes
-      with three tools to aid in analysis:
-      <warning>
-       <para>
-         As of 2.9.18 these tools are somewhat rough - they have no help messages for example. They do work though.
-       </para>
-      </warning>
+      with various tools to aid in analysis. These tools are best documented by their manpages, and their --help output.
       <variablelist>
        <varlistentry>
          <term>dnsreplay pcapfile [ipaddress] [port number]</term>
@@ -16902,7 +16897,32 @@ This setting will make PowerDNS renotify the slaves after an AXFR is *received*
          <term>dnsscope pcapfile</term>
          <listitem>
            <para>
-             Calculates statistics without replaying traffic
+             Calculates statistics without replaying traffic. 
+           </para>
+         </listitem>
+       </varlistentry>
+       <varlistentry>
+         <term>dnsbulktest</term>
+         <listitem>
+           <para>
+             Send out thousands of queries in parallel from Alexa top list to stress out resolvers.
+           </para>
+         </listitem>
+       </varlistentry>
+       <varlistentry>
+         <term>dnsdist</term>
+         <listitem>
+           <para>
+             Simple but high performance UDP and TCP DNS load balancer/distributor.
+           </para>
+         </listitem>
+       </varlistentry>
+
+       <varlistentry>
+         <term>dnstcpbench</term>
+         <listitem>
+           <para>
+             Stress out DNS servers with TCP based queries, as read from a file. 
            </para>
          </listitem>
        </varlistentry>