dnstap: flexible, structured event replication format for DNS servers

dnstap implements an encoding format for DNS server events. It uses a lightweight framing on top of event payloads encoded using Protocol Buffers and is transport neutral.

dnstap can represent internal state inside a DNS server that is difficult to obtain using techniques based on traditional packet capture or unstructured textual format logging.

This repository contains a command-line tool named "dnstap" developed in the Go programming language. It can be installed with the following command:

go get -u github.com/dnstap/golang-dnstap/dnstap