NAME

       dnsping - DNS ping utility

DESCRIPTION

       dnsping  pings a DNS resolver by sending an arbitrary DNS query for given number of times.  It calculates
       minimum, maximum and average response time as well as jitter (stddev).

USAGE

       usage: dnsping [-h] [-q] [-v] [-s server] [-p port] [-P port] [-S address] [-c count] [-t type] [-w wait]
       hostname

OPTIONS

       -h  --help
              Show this help

       -q  --quiet
              Quiet

       -v  --verbose
              Print actual dns response

       -s  --server
              DNS server to use (default: first entry from /etc/resolv.conf)

       -p  --port
              DNS server port number (default: 53)

       -T  --tcp
              Use TCP instead of UDP

       -4  --ipv4
              Use IPv4 as default network protocol

       -6  --ipv6
              Use IPv6 as default network protocol

       -P  --srcport
              Query source port number (default: 0)

       -S  --srcip
              Query source IP address (default: default interface address)

       -c  --count
              Number of requests to send (default: 10)

       -w  --wait
              Maximum wait time for a reply (default: 5)

       -t  --type
              DNS request record type (default: A)

SEE ALSO

       For more documentation on dnsping see https://dnsdiag.org/.

User Commands                                    December 3 2016                                      DNSPING(1)