DNSTOP: STAY ON TOP OF YOUR DNS TRAFFIC

dnstop is a libpcap application (like tcpdump) that displays various tables of DNS traffic on your network. Currently dnstop displays tables of:

• Source IP addresses
• Destination IP addresses
• Query types
• Response codes
• Opcodes
• Top level domains
• Second level domains
• Third level domains
• etc...

dnstop supports both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.

To help find especially undesirable DNS queries, dnstop provides a number of filters. The filters tell dnstop to display only the following types of queries:

• For unknown/invalid TLDs
• A queries where the query name is already an IP address
• PTR queries for RFC1918 address space
• Responses with code REFUSED

dnstop can either read packets from the live capture device, or from a tcpdump savefile.