dpa(1)

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 occurrences).

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 occurrence 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>

<match>: <matchname> <operator> <value>

<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 percentages.

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 <dns-team@nlnetlabs.nl>.

COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2005 NLnet Labs. This is free software. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.