install dnsperf 2.0 on Linux Mint 12

dnsperf is DNS stressing tool provide by Nominum.

You can get it from the following URL.

http://www.nominum.com/resources/measurement-tools

As for RHEL , there are RPM packages for RHEL4 i386 , RHEL 5 i386 , RHEL6 x86 64.

As for Debian based , there are no deb packages.

I’ll install this on Linux Mint 12 from the source.

# tail -1 /etc/lsb-release DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Linux Mint 12 Lisa" # uname -ri 3.0.0-17-generic x86_64

download the source

dnsperf-src-2.0.0.0-1.tar.gz

# tar xzvf dnsperf-src-2.0.0.0-1.tar.gz # cd dnsperf-src-2.0.0.0-1/

Seen from README , BIND 9.4.0 or greater need to be installed to compile dnsperf 2.0

1. Make sure that BIND 9 (9.4.0 or greater) is installed, including libraries   and header files, and that the isc-config.sh program distributed with BIND   is in your path.

Befre installing dnsperf 2.0 , I’ll install BIND 9.9.0

# tar xzvf bind-9.9.0.tar.gz bind-9.9.0/ # cd bind-9.9.0/ # ./configure # make # make install # /usr/local/sbin/named -V BIND 9.9.0 built with defaults using OpenSSL version: OpenSSL 1.0.0e 6 Sep 2011

install dnsperf 2.0

# cd dnsperf-src-2.0.0.0-1/ # sh configure

nnn , error .. there’s no hmacsha.h: ..

# make gcc -g -O2 -I/usr/local/include -D_GNU_SOURCE -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"\" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"\" -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"\" -DPACKAGE_STRING=\"\" -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"\" -DHAVE_LIBNSL=1 -DHAVE_PTHREAD=1 -pthread -c dnsperf.c dnsperf.c: In function ‘main’: dnsperf.c:1041:7: warning: ignoring return value of ‘write’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result [-Wunused-result] dnsperf.c: In function ‘do_send’: dnsperf.c:668:7: warning: ignoring return value of ‘write’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result [-Wunused-result] dnsperf.c: In function ‘handle_sigint’: dnsperf.c:197:7: warning: ignoring return value of ‘write’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result [-Wunused-result] gcc -g -O2 -I/usr/local/include -D_GNU_SOURCE -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"\" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"\" -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"\" -DPACKAGE_STRING=\"\" -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"\" -DHAVE_LIBNSL=1 -DHAVE_PTHREAD=1 -pthread -c datafile.c gcc -g -O2 -I/usr/local/include -D_GNU_SOURCE -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"\" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"\" -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"\" -DPACKAGE_STRING=\"\" -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"\" -DHAVE_LIBNSL=1 -DHAVE_PTHREAD=1 -pthread -c dns.c dns.c:46:25: fatal error: isc/hmacsha.h: No such file or directory compilation terminated. make: *** [dns.o] Error 1

Senn from README , it describes that:

Note: many versions of bind do not correctly install the <isc/hmacsha.h>   header file, so if the compilation fails, obtain this file from the BIND   source distribution, and install it in the appropriate place.

where is hmacsha.h …

# locate hmacsha.h /home/zzz/my_works/bind-9.9.0/lib/isc/include/isc/hmacsha.h

and which directory should I put it ??

under /usr/local/include/isc directory ?

# ls /usr/local/include/isc/ app.h            hex.h            netaddr.h        sha2.h assertions.h     hmacmd5.h        netdb.h          sockaddr.h atomic.h         httpd.h          offset.h         socket.h base64.h         int.h            once.h           stdio.h

copy hmacsha.c to /usr/local/include/isc directory.

# cp /home/zzz/my_works/bind-9.9.0/lib/isc/include/isc/hmacsha.h /usr/local/include/isc

try again

# sh configure

okay.

# make gcc -g -O2 -I/usr/local/include -D_GNU_SOURCE -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"\" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"\" -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"\" -DPACKAGE_STRING=\"\" -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"\" -DHAVE_LIBNSL=1 -DHAVE_PTHREAD=1 -pthread -c dns.c gcc -g -O2 -I/usr/local/include -D_GNU_SOURCE -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"\" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"\" -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"\" -DPACKAGE_STRING=\"\" -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"\" -DHAVE_LIBNSL=1 -DHAVE_PTHREAD=1 -pthread -c log.c gcc -g -O2 -I/usr/local/include -D_GNU_SOURCE -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"\" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"\" -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"\" -DPACKAGE_STRING=\"\" -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"\" -DHAVE_LIBNSL=1 -DHAVE_PTHREAD=1 -pthread -c net.c gcc -g -O2 -I/usr/local/include -D_GNU_SOURCE -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"\" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"\" -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"\" -DPACKAGE_STRING=\"\" -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"\" -DHAVE_LIBNSL=1 -DHAVE_PTHREAD=1 -pthread -c opt.c gcc -g -O2 -I/usr/local/include -D_GNU_SOURCE -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"\" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"\" -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"\" -DPACKAGE_STRING=\"\" -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"\" -DHAVE_LIBNSL=1 -DHAVE_PTHREAD=1 -pthread -c os.c ar rv libperf.a datafile.o dns.o log.o net.o opt.o os.o ar: creating libperf.a a - datafile.o a - dns.o a - log.o a - net.o a - opt.o a - os.o ranlib libperf.a gcc -pthread dnsperf.o  libperf.a -lnsl  -L/usr/local/lib -lbind9 -ldns -lcrypto -lisccfg -lisc -ldl  -lm -o dnsperf gcc -g -O2 -I/usr/local/include -D_GNU_SOURCE -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"\" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"\" -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"\" -DPACKAGE_STRING=\"\" -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"\" -DHAVE_LIBNSL=1 -DHAVE_PTHREAD=1 -pthread -c resperf.c gcc -pthread resperf.o  libperf.a -lnsl  -L/usr/local/lib -lbind9 -ldns -lcrypto -lisccfg -lisc -ldl  -lm -o resperf #

# make install mkdir -p /usr/local/bin mkdir -p /usr/local/share/man/man1 /usr/bin/install -c  dnsperf /usr/local/bin /usr/bin/install -c  resperf /usr/local/bin /usr/bin/install -c  resperf-report /usr/local/bin /usr/bin/install -c -m 644  dnsperf.1 /usr/local/share/man/man1 /usr/bin/install -c -m 644  resperf.1 /usr/local/share/man/man1

get things done :)

# ls /usr/local/bin/*perf /usr/local/bin/dnsperf  /usr/local/bin/resperf