Power DNS : how to build pdns-tools ( dnswasher, dnsscope, dnsbulktest, dnsdist, dnsreplay, dnstcpbench )

Followings are useful DNS tools, such as pcap reply, benchmark tool etc, which contains Power DNS source code.

dnswasher: remove IP addresses from a DNS pcap file dnsscope: provide query/response timing stats from DNS pcap file dnsbulktest: send out many parallel queries to validate resolver performance dnsdist: simple high performance UDP/TCP DNS load balancer dnsreplay: replay existing DNS pcap files to compare nameservers dnstcpbench: stress out nameservers over TCP/IP

Here are trial and error logs when building these tools on Ubuntu 13.10 64bit.

# tail -1 /etc/lsb-release ;uname -ri DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 13.10" 3.11.0-12-generic x86_64

download the source code from git.

# apt-get install git # git clone https://github.com/PowerDNS/pdns.git

install required packages

# apt-get install autoconf automake bison flex g++ libboost-all-dev libtool make pkg-config ragel

build

# cd pdns/ # ./bootstrap # ./configure --with-modules="" --without-lua # cd pdns/ # pwd /root/PowerDNS_works/pdns/pdns

- build dnswasher

error

# pwd /root/PowerDNS_works/pdns/pdns # make dnswasher  CXXLD    dnswasher /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lz collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [dnswasher] Error 1

Googling this error, I might solve this by installing lib32z1-dev..

# apt-get install lib32z1-dev

try again. Okay, I was able to build dnswasher.

# make dnswasher  CXXLD    dnswasher root@ubuntu1310-vm6:~/PowerDNS_works/pdns/pdns# echo $? 0 # ./dnswasher --help Syntax: dnswasher infile outfile

- build other tools.

root@ubuntu1310-vm6:~/PowerDNS_works/pdns/pdns# make dnsscope  CXX      dnsscope.o  CXXLD    dnsscope root@ubuntu1310-vm6:~/PowerDNS_works/pdns/pdns# make dnsbulktest  CXX      dnsbulktest.o  CXXLD    dnsbulktest root@ubuntu1310-vm6:~/PowerDNS_works/pdns/pdns# make dnsdist  CXX      dnsdist.o  CXX      iputils.o  CXXLD    dnsdist root@ubuntu1310-vm6:~/PowerDNS_works/pdns/pdns# make dnsreplay  CXX      dnsreplay.o  CXXLD    dnsreplay root@ubuntu1310-vm6:~/PowerDNS_works/pdns/pdns# make dnstcpbench  CXXLD    dnstcpbench root@ubuntu1310-vm6:~/PowerDNS_works/pdns/pdns#