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.TH "COREDNS\-DNSTAP" "7" "February 2018" "CoreDNS" "CoreDNS plugins"
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.SH "NAME"
\fIdnstap\fR \- enable logging to dnstap
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.SH "DESCRIPTION"
dnstap is a flexible, structured binary log format for DNS software: http://dnstap\.info\. With this plugin you make CoreDNS output dnstap logging\.
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.P
Note that there is an internal buffer, so expect at least 13 requests before the server sends its dnstap messages to the socket\.
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.SH "SYNTAX"
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.nf

dnstap SOCKET [full]
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.fi
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.IP "\(bu" 4
\fBSOCKET\fR is the socket path supplied to the dnstap command line tool\.
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.IP "\(bu" 4
\fBfull\fR to include the wire\-format DNS message\.
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.IP "" 0
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.SH "EXAMPLES"
Log information about client requests and responses to \fI/tmp/dnstap\.sock\fR\.
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.IP "" 4
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.nf

dnstap /tmp/dnstap\.sock
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.fi
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.IP "" 0
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.P
Log information including the wire\-format DNS message about client requests and responses to \fI/tmp/dnstap\.sock\fR\.
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.IP "" 4
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.nf

dnstap unix:///tmp/dnstap\.sock full
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.fi
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.IP "" 0
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.P
Log to a remote endpoint\.
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.IP "" 4
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.nf

dnstap tcp://127\.0\.0\.1:6000 full
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.fi
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.IP "" 0
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.SH "COMMAND LINE TOOL"
Dnstap has a command line tool that can be used to inspect the logging\. The tool can be found at Github: \fIhttps://github\.com/dnstap/golang\-dnstap\fR\. It\'s written in Go\.
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.P
The following command listens on the given socket and decodes messages to stdout\.
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.IP "" 4
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.nf

% dnstap \-u /tmp/dnstap\.sock
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.fi
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.IP "" 0
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.P
The following command listens on the given socket and saves message payloads to a binary dnstap\-format log file\.
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.IP "" 4
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.nf

% dnstap \-u /tmp/dnstap\.sock \-w /tmp/test\.dnstap
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.fi
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.IP "" 0
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.P
Listen for dnstap messages on port 6000\.
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.IP "" 4
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.nf

% dnstap \-l 127\.0\.0\.1:6000
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.fi
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.IP "" 0
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
dnstap\.info \fIhttp://dnstap\.info\fR\.