DNS-FLOOD-DETECTOR

NAME

DNS-FLOOD-DETECTOR − dns flood detection and alert tool

SYNOPSIS

dns-flood-detector [−b|−d] [−v] [−h] [−i device] [-t n] [-a n] [-w n] [-x n] [-m n]

DESCRIPTION

DNS Flood Detector was developed to detect abusive usage levels on high traffic nameservers and to enable quick response to the use of one’s nameserver to facilitate spam.

OPTIONS

	−b		run in foreground in bindsnap mode
	−d		run in background in daemon mode
	−v		verbose output − use again for more verbosity
	−h		display help

−i device

specify device name to listen on

	−t n		alarm at >n queries per second
	−a n		reset alarm after n seconds
	−w n		calculate stats every n seconds
	−x n		create n buckets
	−m n		report overall stats every n seconds

AUTHOR

DNS-FLOOD-DETECTOR was written by Dennis Opacki <dopacki AT adotout DOT com>.

This manual page was written by Jan Wagner <waja AT cyconet DOT org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

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