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The DNS-STATS Compactor project is a set of tools for capturing and working with DNS server traffic recorded in Compacted-DNS (C-DNS) files. C-DNS is a space-efficient file format for storing DNS traffic. It is defined in RFC8618.

Versions

Release 1.0.0 implements RFC8618. The previous Compactor production release (0.12) is based on the earlier Internet Draft draft-ietf-dnsop-dns-capture-format-04.

Supported Versions

Version 0.12 is now maintained for critical bug fixes only. It will be supported until the 1.1 release is available.

License

DNS-STATS Compactor is an open source project licensed under the Mozilla Public License v2.0.

See About for more details.

Latest release

Experimental

Update 2020-10-27

1.1.0-beta1: This release adds an implementation-specific C-DNS field to each block header recording the time the block rolls over. A new section in .info files reports the time range covered by a C-DNS file.

Production

Update 2020-03-12

1.0.0: This release supports C-DNS as described in RFC8618. Compactor writes only C-DNS 1.0 format, inspector reads C-DNS 1.0 and all previously supported draft formats. See the Releases page for more details.

Documentation and Installation

For the production release see the PDF User Guide which includes detailed installation instructions.

Or download this nicer HTML User Guide to view offline (since the GitHub wiki will only show this as raw HTML - we are working on a better website!).

Distribution Packages

Debian packages for the production 1.0.0 release are available from ppa:dns-stats/compactor.

Debian packages for experimental releases are available from ppa:dns-stats/compactor-unstable.

Code

Branches

As of the 1.0.0 release develop and master now contain the 1.0 code.

The 0.12 release is maintained from the 0.12 branch.

Support

Contributors

  • The Comcast Innovation Fund generously supported the work of implementing the RFC format in version 1.0 of compactor via a grant.
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