---
name: "dns-flood-detector"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "dns-flood-detector"
version: "1.20-7+b2"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/dns-flood-detector"
---

# dns-flood-detector(8)

dns flood detection and alert tool

## NAME

DNS-FLOOD-DETECTOR - dns flood detection and alert tool

## SYNOPSIS

**dns-flood-detector** \[**-b**\|**-d**\] \[**-v**\] \[**-h**\] \[**-i** *device*\] \[**-t** *n*\] \[**-a** *n*\] \[**-w** *n*\] \[**-x** *n*\] \[**-m** *n*\]

## DESCRIPTION

**DNS Flood Detector** was developed to detect abusive usage levels on high traffic nameservers and to enable quick response to the use of one's nameserver to facilitate spam.

## OPTIONS

- **-b**

  **run in foreground in bindsnap mode**

- **-d**

  run in background in daemon mode

- **-v**

  verbose output - use again for more verbosity

- **-h**

  display help

- **-i device**

  specify device name to listen on

- **-t n**

  alarm at \>n queries per second

- **-a n**

  reset alarm after n seconds

- **-w n**

  calculate stats every n seconds

- **-x n**

  create n buckets

- **-m n**

  report overall stats every n seconds

## SEE ALSO

**Website** \<http://www.adotout.com/\>

## AUTHOR

DNS-FLOOD-DETECTOR was written by Dennis Opacki \<dopacki@adotout.com\>.

This manual page was written by Jan Wagner \<waja@cyconet.org\>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).