# Tools to analyse DNS traffic
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
-various tools to aid in analysis. These tools are best documented by their
-manpages, and their `--help` output.
-
-The PowerDNS tools do not (yet) follow an independent release process.
+various tools to aid in analysis.
+
+The following tools are available:
+
+ * [dnsbulktest](../manpages/dnsbulktest.1.md) - A resolver stress-tester
+ * [dnsgram](../manpages/dnsgram.1.md) - Show per 5-second statistics to study intermittent resolver issues
+ * [dnsreplay](../manpages/dnsreplay.1.md) - Replay a pcap with DNS queries
+ * [dnsscan](../manpages/dnsscan.1.md) - Prints the query-type amounts in a pcap
+ * [dnsscope](../manpages/dnsscope.1.md) - Calculates statistics without replaying traffic
+ * [dnstcpbench](../manpages/dnstcpbench.1.md) - Perform TCP benchmarking of DNS servers
+ * [dnswasher](../manpages/dnswasher.1.md) - Clean a pcap of identifying IP information
+ * [nsec3dig](../manpages/nsec3dig.1.md) - Calculate the correctness of NSEC3 proofs
+ * [saxfr](../manpages/saxfr.1.md) - AXFR zones and show extra information
+
+# Downloading the tools
+The PowerDNS tools do not (yet) follow an independent release process.
However, we keep them working, and they are shipped with PowerDNS
Authoritative Server tarballs.
* <https://autotest.powerdns.com/job/auth-git-semistatic-deb-i386/>
* <https://autotest.powerdns.com/job/auth-git-semistatic-rpm-amd64/>
* <https://autotest.powerdns.com/job/auth-git-semistatic-rpm-i386/>
-
-## `dnsreplay pcapfile [ipaddress] [port number]`
-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.
-
-## `dnswasher pcapfile output`
-Anonymises recorded traffic, making sure it only contains DNS, and that the originating IP addresses of queries are stripped, which may allow you to send traces to our company or mailing list without violating obligations towards your customers or privacy laws.
-
-## `dnsscope pcapfile`
-Calculates statistics without replaying traffic.
-
-## `dnsgram`
-Creates statistics on 5-second segments of a pcap, allowing you to study intermittent
-performance problems.
-
-## `dnsbulktest`
-Send out thousands of queries in parallel from Alexa top list to stress out resolvers.
-
-## `dnsdist`
-Simple but high performance UDP and TCP DNS load balancer/distributor.
-
-## `dnstcpbench`
-Stress out DNS servers with TCP based queries, as read from a file.
-
- [authoritative/recursion.md, 'Authoritative', 'Recursion with the Authoritative Server']
- [authoritative/dnssec.md, 'Authoritative', 'Serve DNSSEC Signed Data']
- [authoritative/settings.md, 'Authoritative', 'List of Settings']
+ - [manpages/zone2ldap.1.md, 'Authoritative', 'Manpage: zone2ldap.1']
+ - [manpages/zone2sql.1.md, 'Authoritative', 'Manpage: zone2sql.1']
+ - [manpages/pdns_control.1.md, 'Authoritative', 'Manpage: pdns_control.1']
+ - [manpages/pdnssec.1.md, 'Authoritative', 'Manpage: pdnssec.1']
+ - [manpages/pdns_server.1.md, 'Authoritative', 'Manpage: pdns_server.1']
- [authoritative/backend-bind.md, 'Authoritative Backends', 'BIND']
- [authoritative/backend-generic-mypgsql.md, 'Authoritative Backends', 'Generic MySQL and PostgreSQL']
- [authoritative/backend-geo.md, 'Authoritative Backends', 'Geo(graphic loadbalancing)']
- [recursor/security.md, 'Recursor', 'Security of the Recursor']
- [recursor/stats.md, 'Recursor', 'Recursor Statistics']
- [recursor/running.md, 'Recursor', 'Controlling & Querying']
+ - [manpages/pdns_recursor.1.md, 'Recursor', 'Manpage: pdns_recursor.1']
+ - [manpages/rec_control.1.md, 'Recursor', 'Manpage: rec_control.1']
- [recursor/performance.md, 'Recursor', 'Performance Tuning']
- [recursor/scripting.md, 'Recursor', 'Scripting']
- [recursor/dns64.md, 'Recursor', 'DNS64 support']
- [appendix/documentation.md, 'Tools and Appendices', "Documentation details"]
- [appendix/compiling-powerdns.md, 'Tools and Appendices', 'Compiling PowerDNS']
- [tools/analysis.md, 'Tools and Appendices', 'DNS Analysis Tools']
+ - [manpages/dnsbulktest.1.md, 'Tools and Appendices', 'Manpage: dnsbulktest.1']
+ - [manpages/dnsgram.1.md, 'Tools and Appendices', 'Manpage: dnsgram.1']
+ - [manpages/dnsreplay.1.md, 'Tools and Appendices', 'Manpage: dnsreplay.1']
+ - [manpages/dnsscan.1.md, 'Tools and Appendices', 'Manpage: dnsscan.1']
+ - [manpages/dnsscope.1.md, 'Tools and Appendices', 'Manpage: dnsscope.1']
+ - [manpages/dnstcpbench.1.md, 'Tools and Appendices', 'Manpage: dnstcpbench.1']
+ - [manpages/dnswasher.1.md, 'Tools and Appendices', 'Manpage: dnswasher.1']
+ - [manpages/nsec3dig.1.md, 'Tools and Appendices', 'Manpage: nsec3dig.1']
+ - [manpages/saxfr.1.md, 'Tools and Appendices', 'Manpage: saxfr.1']