dnsdist - A DNS and DoS aware, scriptable loadbalancer
dnsdist [<option>...] [address]...
dnsdist receives DNS queries and relays them to one or more
downstream servers. It subsequently sends back responses to the original
requestor.
dnsdist operates over TCP and UDP, and strives to deliver
very high performance over both.
Currently, queries are sent to the downstream server with the
least outstanding queries. This effectively implies load balancing, making
sure that slower servers get less queries.
If a reply has not come in after a few seconds, it is removed from
the queue, but in the short term, timeouts do cause a server to get less
traffic.
IPv4 and IPv6 operation can be mixed and matched, in other words,
queries coming in over IPv6 could be forwarded to IPv4 and vice versa.
dnsdist is scriptable in Lua, see the dnsdist documentation
for more information on this.
dnsdist does not 'think' about DNS queries, it restricts
itself to measuring response times and error codes and routing questions
accordingly. It comes with a very high performance packet-cache.
The goal for dnsdist is to remain simple. If more powerful
loadbalancing is required, dedicated hardware or software is recommended.
Linux Virtual Server for example is often mentioned.
- -a <netmask>, --acl <netmask>
- Add netmask to the ACL.
- -C <file>, --config <file>
- Load configuration from file.
- --check-config
- Test the configuration file (which may be set with --config or
-C) for errors. dnsdist will show the errors and exit with a
non-zero exit-code when errors are found.
- -c <address>, --client <address>
- Operate as a client, connect to dnsdist. This will read the dnsdist
configuration for the controlSocket statement and connect to it.
When address (with an optional port number) is set, dnsdist will
connect to that instead.
- -k <key>, --setkey <key>
- When operating as a client(-c, --client), use key as
shared secret to connect to dnsdist. This should be the same key that is
used on the server (set with setKey()). Note that this will leak
the key into your shell's history and into the systems running process
list. Only available when dnsdist is compiled with libsodium support.
- -e,--execute <command>
- Connect to dnsdist and execute command.
- -h,
--help
- Display a helpful message and exit.
- -l,--local <address>
- Bind to address, Supply as many addresses (using multiple
--local statements) to listen on as required. Specify IPv4 as
0.0.0.0:53 and IPv6 as [::]:53.
- --supervised
- Run in foreground, but do not spawn a console. Use this switch to run
dnsdist inside a supervisor (use with e.g. systemd and daemontools).
- --disable-syslog
- Disable logging to syslog. Use this when running inside a supervisor that
handles logging (like systemd).
- -u,--uid <uid>
- Change the process user to uid after binding sockets. uid
can be a name or number.
- -g,--gid <gid>
- Change the process group to gid after binding sockets. gid
Can be a name or number.
- -V,
--version
- Show the dnsdist version and exit.
- -v,
--verbose
- Be verbose.
address are any number of downstream DNS servers, in the
same syntax as used with --local. If the port is not specified, 53 is
used.
Right now, the TCP support has some rather arbitrary limits.
Website: https://dnsdist.org
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