Installation

Weitere Installationsbefehle

macOS

Homebrewverifiziert · 100%

brew install dnstop

local Homebrew formula metadata

MacPortsverifiziert · 94%

sudo port install dnstop

MacPorts ports tree · net/dnstop/Portfile · Quelle: api.github.com

Linux

Alpine Linux apkverifiziert · 92%

sudo apk add dnstop

Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dnstop · Quelle: dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org

Debian aptverifiziert · 92%

sudo apt install dnstop

Debian stable package indexes · dnstop · Quelle: deb.debian.org

Fedora dnfverifiziert · 92%

sudo dnf install dnstop

Fedora Rawhide package metadata · dnstop · Quelle: dl.fedoraproject.org

Nixverifiziert · 92%

nix profile install nixpkgs#dnstop

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/dn/dnstop/package.nix · Quelle: api.github.com

Überblick

Paketzusammenfassung

Console tool to analyze DNS traffic

Projektlinks

Befehle und Aliase

dnstop

Verlauf

Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

dnstop is a curses-style libpcap tool for watching DNS traffic tables from a live interface or packet capture. It is the DNS equivalent of a focused top-like view: small, old, and still useful when a resolver or network segment is producing strange query traffic.

Projektgeschichte

The Measurement Factory publicity page says dnstop was written with research into large amounts of bogus traffic received by root DNS servers and was originally presented at NANOG26. The project site and README describe the core feature set: tables for source and destination addresses, query types, response codes, opcodes, and domain levels.

The man page is dated March 21, 2008 and names Duane Wessels, Mark Foster, Jose Nazario, and other contributors. In 2018, the official source page was updated to point to the GitHub repository as the maintained source location while keeping the old source directory for tarballs and individual files.

Adoptionsgeschichte

dnstop spread early through operator communities. The official source page lists portability notes for Mac OS X with fink, FreeBSD Ports, NetBSD Packages, Gentoo Portage, Debian unstable, EPEL, Linux source builds, and Solaris. The publicity page preserves 2002 and 2003 operator feedback from people running it on DNS, mail, FreeBSD, and Solaris systems.

Wie es verwendet wird

Users run dnstop on a network device or read a tcpdump savefile. It can filter for unknown TLD leakage, RFC1918 PTR leakage, REFUSED, SERVFAIL, NXDOMAIN, and other DNS patterns, then switch between live tables interactively or print top entries from a capture in non-interactive mode.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

dnstop is the kind of small C network utility that package maintainers like because it has a clear job and few moving parts: libpcap plus a terminal UI. Its significance is historical as much as practical: it came from root-DNS measurement work and became a standard packaged tool for DNS traffic triage.

Zeitleiste

2002: dnstop presented at NANOG26 according to the official publicity page.
2003: Publicity page records operator adoption feedback after the root-DNS traffic research.
2008: dnstop manual page dated March 21, 2008.
2018: Official source page updated to point to the GitHub repository.
2026: GitHub repository metadata shows continued maintenance activity.

Related projects

tcpdump and libpcap are the closest technical relatives: dnstop reads live captures or pcap savefiles. DNS measurement work at The Measurement Factory is the historical context, and DNS-OARC-style operator tooling is the cultural neighborhood.

Quellen

Sicherheitslage

Risikostufe: grün

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Risikoklassifikator

grün Risiko · niedrig Konfidenz · appliance

Warum

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Signale

metadata:no-higher-risk-signals

Installationsverhalten

In den Formelmetadaten ist kein Homebrew-Post-install-Hook erfasst.
Homebrew-Bottle-Metadaten sind für 13 Plattformziele verfügbar.

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Executables

Installierte Executables

Befehl	Art	Sichtbarkeit	Hinweis
`dnstop`	cli	globales Executable

Aktualität

Version und Aktualität

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Manager-Version20140915

Manager aktualisiert

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http://dns.measurement-factory.com/tools/dnstop/index.html

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InfoRelease/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.http://dns.measurement-factory.com/tools/dnstop/index.htmlnone Konfidenz

Installationsmetadaten

Paketmetadaten

Paketschlüssel	brew:dnstop
Version	20140915
Paketmanager	Homebrew
Paketmanager-Seite	https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/dnstop
Homepage	http://dns.measurement-factory.com/tools/dnstop/index.html
Repository	https://github.com/measurement-factory/dnstop
Upstream-Dokumentation	http://dns.measurement-factory.com/tools/dnstop/dnstop.8.html
Lizenz	BSD-3-Clause
Quellarchiv	https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/distfiles/dnstop-20140915.tar.gz
Von macOS bereitgestellte Bibliotheken	libpcap, ncurses
Bottle	verfügbar (auf arm64_big_sur, arm64_linux, arm64_monterey, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, big_sur, catalina, monterey, sonoma, ventura, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-install	nicht definiert
Dienst	keiner deklariert

Registry-Fakten

Details aus der Quelldatenbank

Source Database	Homebrew formula API
Tap	homebrew/core
Full Name	dnstop
Version Scheme	0
Revision	0
Bottle Stable Root URL	https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecated	no
Disabled	no
Keg Only	no
URL Keys	stable

Source-Datenbank-Treffer

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Treffer stammen aus externen Paketmanager-Indizes und bleiben von lokalen Automic-Vault-Paketlinks getrennt.

Debian apt95%

dnstop 20240820-1

console tool to analyze DNS traffic

http://dns.measurement-factory.com/tools/dnstop/

sudo apt install dnstop

Section: net
Architecture: amd64
4 Abhängigkeiten
normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: Dnstop

Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: dnstop from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

Nix95%

dnstop

nix profile install nixpkgs#dnstop

normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: Dnstop

nixpkgs package indexes · api.github.com · nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/dn/dnstop/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

Ubuntu apt95%

dnstop 20120611-2build5

console tool to analyze DNS traffic

http://dns.measurement-factory.com/tools/dnstop/

sudo apt install dnstop

Section: universe/net
Architecture: amd64
4 Abhängigkeiten
normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: Dnstop

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: dnstop from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz

apk95%

dnstop 20140915-r8

A DNS traffic capture utility

http://dns.measurement-factory.com/tools/dnstop/

sudo apk add dnstop

License: BSD-3-Clause
Architecture: x86_64
Source Package: dnstop
1 Abhängigkeiten
1 stellt bereit
normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: Dnstop

Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: dnstop from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz

apk95%

dnstop-doc 20140915-r8

A DNS traffic capture utility (documentation)

http://dns.measurement-factory.com/tools/dnstop/

sudo apk add dnstop-doc

License: BSD-3-Clause
Architecture: x86_64
Source Package: dnstop
normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: Dnstop

Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: dnstop-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz

dnf95%

dnstop 20140915-28.git20240708.fc44

Displays information about DNS traffic on your network

http://dns.measurement-factory.com/tools/dnstop/

sudo dnf install dnstop

License: BSD-3-Clause
Category: Unspecified
Architecture: x86_64
Source Package: dnstop
5 Abhängigkeiten
1 stellt bereit
normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: Dnstop

Fedora Rawhide package metadata · dl.fedoraproject.org · Fedora Rawhide package metadata: dnstop from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst

MacPorts95%

dnstop

sudo port install dnstop

normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: Dnstop

MacPorts ports tree · api.github.com · MacPorts ports tree: net/dnstop/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

Paketgraph

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Quellspur

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Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub.

combined/dnstop.yml

Verwendete Quellen

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dnstop mit Homebrew, apk, apt, dnf, MacPorts, Nix installieren

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macOS

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Paketzusammenfassung

Projektlinks

Befehle und Aliase

Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

Projektgeschichte

Adoptionsgeschichte

Wie es verwendet wird

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

Zeitleiste

Related projects

Quellen

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Warum

Signale

Installationsverhalten

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Installierte Executables

Version und Aktualität

Paketmetadaten

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Interne Paketlinks

Themen-Hubs

Gleicher Workflow

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