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filename

Path to the queries file. See the description below regarding the file format.

target

Either the domain name, IPv4 or IPv6 address of a remote target.

-t,  --duration seconds

Duration of traffic generation, specified as a decimal number in seconds (default is 5.0).

-T,  --tcp[=debug_mode]

Send queries over TCP. See the list of optional debug modes below.

-U,  --quic[=debug_mode]

Send queries over QUIC. See the list of optional debug modes below.

-Q,  --qps queries

Number of queries-per-second (approximately) to be sent (default is 1000). The program is not optimized for low speeds at which it may lose communication packets. The recommended minimum speed is 2 packets per thread (Rx/Tx queue).

-b,  --batch size

Send more queries in a batch. Improves QPS but may affect the counterpart's packet loss (default is 10 for UDP and 1 for TCP/QUIC).

-r,  --drop

Drop incoming responses. Improves QPS, but disables response statistics.

-p,  --port number

Remote destination port (default is 53 for UDP/TCP, 853 for QUIC).

-F,  --affinity cpu_spec

CPU affinity for all threads specified in the format [<cpu_start>][s<cpu_step>], where <cpu_start> is the CPU ID for the first thread and <cpu_step> is the CPU ID increment for next thread (default is 0s1).

-i,  --infile filename

Path to a file with query templates.

-B,  --binary

Specify that input file is in binary format. This format is similar to the TCP DNS message format. The file contains records formatted as 2-octet length (network order) followed by a message in DNS wire format.

-I,  --interface interface

Network interface for outgoing communication. This can be useful in situations when the interfaces are in a bond for example.

-l,  --local localIP[/prefix]

Override the auto-detected source IP address. If an address range is specified instead, various IPs from the range will be used for different queries uniformly (address range not supported in the QUIC mode).

-L,  --mac-local

Override auto-detected local MAC address.

-R,  --mac-remote

Override auto-detected remote MAC address.

-v,  --vlan id

Add VLAN 802.1Q header with the given id. VLAN offloading should be disabled.

-e,  --edns-size size

EDNS UDP payload size, range 512-4096 (default is 1232). Note that over XDP the maximum supported MTU is 1790.

-m,  --mode mode

Set the XDP mode. Supported values are:

• auto (default) – the XDP mode is selected automatically to achieve the best performance, which means that native driver support is preferred over the generic one, and zero-copy is used if available.
• copy – the XDP socket copy mode is forced even if zero-copy is available. This can resolve various driver issues, but at the cost of lower performance.
• generic – the generic XDP implementation is forced even if native implementation is available. This mode doesn't require support from the driver nor hardware, but offers the worst performance.

-G,  --qlog path

Generate qlog files in the directory specified by path. The directory has to exist.

This option is ignored if not in the QUIC mode. The recommended usage is with --quic=R or with low QPS. Otherwise, too many files are generated.

-j,  --json

Print statistics formatted as json.

-S,  --stats-period period

Report statistics automatically every period milliseconds.

These reports contain only metrics collected in the given period.

-h,  --help

Print the program help.

-V,  --version

Print the program version. The option -VV makes the program print the compile time configuration summary.

Each line describes a query in the form:

query_name query_type [flags]

Where query_name is a domain name to be queried, query_type is a record type name, and flags is a single character:

E Send query with EDNS.

D Request DNSSEC (EDNS + DO flag).

0

Perform full handshake for all connections (QUIC only).

1

Just send SYN (Initial) and receive SYN-ACK (Handshake).

2

Perform TCP/QUIC handshake and don't send anything, allow close initiated by counterpart.

3

Perform TCP/QUIC handshake and don't react further.

5

Send incomplete query (N-1 bytes) and don't react further.

7

Send query and don't ACK the response or anything further.

8

Don't close the connection and ignore close by counterpart.

9

Operate normally except for not ACKing the final FIN+ACK (TCP only).

R

Instead of opening a connection for each query, reuse connections.

Sending USR1 signal to a running process triggers current statistics dump to the standard output. In combination with -S may cause erratic printout timing.