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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.

C-DNS Versions

Release 1.0.0 and later implement RFC8618.

License

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

See About for more details.

Latest release

Production

Update 2022-07-31

1.2.3: This release adds EDNS0 OPT output to the inspector template backend and updates for Jammy compatibility

Documentation and Installation

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

Distribution Packages

Debian packages for the production 1.2.3 release are available from

• ppa:dns-stats/compactor-bionic
• ppa:dns-stats/compactor-focal
• ppa:dns-stats/compactor-jammy

Debian packages for development releases are available from

• ppa:dns-stats/compactor-unstable-bionic
• ppa:dns-stats/compactor-unstable-focal
• ppa:dns-stats/compactor-unstable-jammy

Code

• Browse the code on GitHub
• Download the latest release tarball.

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

• Report a bug via the issue tracker.
• Request a feature via the issue tracker
• Join the dns-stats-users mailing list.

Contributors

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