.TH "DNSBULKTEST" "1" "April 2015" "" "" .SH NAME .PP \f[B]dnsbulktest\f[] \- A debugging tool for intermittent resolver failures .SH SYNOPSIS .PP \f[B]dnsbulktest\f[] [\f[I]OPTION\f[]]... \f[I]IPADDRESS\f[] \f[I]PORT\f[] [\f[I]LIMIT\f[]] .SH DESCRIPTION .PP \f[B]dnsbulktest\f[] sends a large amount of different queries (for up to \f[I]LIMIT\f[] different domains) to the nameserver at \f[I]IPADDRESS\f[] on port \f[I]PORT\f[]. It reads the domain names from STDIN in the alexa topX format and outputs statistics on STDOUT. .SH OPTIONS .TP .B \-\-help, \-h Show a summary of options. .RS .RE .TP .B \-\-quiet, \-q Don\[aq]t show information on individual queries. .RS .RE .TP .B \-\-type, \-t \f[I]TYPE\f[] Query the nameserver for \f[I]TYPE\f[], A by default. .RS .RE .TP .B \-\-envoutput, \-e Write results on STDOUT as shell environment variables .RS .RE .TP .B \-\-version Display the version of dnsbulktest .RS .RE .SH AUTHORS PowerDNS.com BV.