DNS table

For performance reasons the DNS request and response packets are joined into a single row, to avoid having to do an expensive join operation with large tables. Besides DNS information there is also IP and TCP/UDP and meta information added to each row.

The table below contains all available columns, the protocol indicates the network protocol the column data is extracted from. The type can be either request, response or meta. The meta type is used for columns that contain data that is not directly extracted from network packet data. Meta data is descriptive data about the network data, such as the geographical location for an IP address.

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column protocol type description
id DNS query message id
rcode DNS response rcode (-1 is no matching server response is found)
opcode DNS query opcode
query_ts - META packet timestamp in milliseconds UTC
time - META milliseconds since January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 UTC
qname DNS request qname from request
qtype DNS request qtype from request
domainname DNS META secondlevel domainname (extracted from qname)
labels DNS META count of the number of qname labels
src IP request source IP address
dst IP request destination IP address
ttl IP request TTL
frag IP request fragment count
ipv IP request IP version, 4 or 6
prot IP request protocol, 6(TCP) or 17(UDP)
srcp UDP/TCP request source port
dstp UDP/TCP request destination port
req_len DNS response length of the DNS request message
res_len DNS response length of the DNS response message
aa DNS response header Authoritative Answer
tc DNS response header Truncation
rd DNS request header Recursion Desired
ra DNS response header Recursion Available
z DNS request header Zero
ad DNS response header Authenticated data (DNSSEC)
cd DNS request header Checking Disabled (DNSSEC)
ancount DNS response header Answer Record Count
arcount DNS response header Additional Record Count
nscount DNS response header Authority Record Count
qdcount DNS request header Question Count
country IP META country location of the source IP address
asn IP META autonomous system number of the source IP address
edns_udp DNS request max UDP packet length supported by client
edns_version DNS request EDNS0 version
edns_do DNS request DNSSEC do-bit
edns_ping DNS request EDNS0 ping option of powerdns
edns_nsid DNS request name server identifier (rfc5001)
edns_dnssec_dau DNS request DNSSEC Algorithm signalling, DNSSEC Algorithm Understood, (rfc6975)
edns_dnssec_dhu DNS request DNSSEC Algorithm signalling, DS Hash Understoodd, (rfc6975)
edns_dnssec_n3u DNS request DNSSEC Algorithm signalling, NSEC3 Hash Understood, (rfc6975)
edns_client_subnet DNS request Client subnet option (draft-ietf-dnsop-edns-client-subnet-00)
edns_client_subnet_asn - META asn of the client subnet
edns_client_subnet_country - META country location of the client subnet IP address
edns_other DNS request All other used EDNS0 options (concatenated as string)
resp_frag IP request the number of IP packet fragments required for the DNS response
proc_time - META the number microseconds between the request and the response
server_location META request location of the anycast node, only if anycast encoding is used for the file input directory
edns_padding DNS request Is EDNS0 Padding used
pcap_file DNS request Name of the input pcap file
edns_keytag_count DNS request number of EDNS0 keytags found
edns_keytag_list DNS request EDNS0 keytags as comma separated list
q_tc DNS request TC flag from request header
q_ra DNS request RA flag from request header
q_ad DNS request AD flag from request header
q_rcode DNS request RCODE flag from request header
pub_resolver DNS request Public resolver used e.g. Google, OpenDNS …
tcp_hs_rtt TCP META RTT of TCP handshake
tcp_pk_rtt TCP META RTT of TCP packet
year META request year part of timestamp
month META query month part of timestamp
day META request day part of timestamp
server DNS request The name server the DNS request was sent to

The list of public resolver IP addresses is automatically fetched updated every day.

For more information about the DNS fields see DNS RFC 1035. The table column names match the RFC field names. For more information about possible DNS columns values see IANA DNS parameters.