NAME

getquery - command-line test program for the val_get_rrset() function


SYNOPSIS

   getquery [options] name


DESCRIPTION

This utility is a command-line wrapper around the val_get_rrset() function. It invokes the val_get_rrset() function with the given command-line arguments and displays the returned data and the validated, trusted and non-existence status for each resource record set returned in the response. Any information about name aliases are also displayed. The trusted and validated status values are obtained using the val_istrusted() and val_isvalidated() functions from libval(3).

This program returns 0 on success and -1 on failure.


OPTIONS

-t <type>

Perform the query for the given DNS record type

-o, --output=<debug-level>:<dest-type>[:<dest-options>]

<debug-level> is 1-7, corresponding to syslog levels ALERT-DEBUG <dest-type> is one of file, net, syslog, stderr, stdout <dest-options> depends on <dest-type> file:<file-name> (opened in append mode) net[:<host-name>:<host-port>] (127.0.0.1:1053 syslog[:facility] (0-23 (default 1 USER))

-h, --help

Display the help and exit.


PRE-REQUISITES

libval


COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2005-2011 SPARTA, Inc. All rights reserved. See the COPYING file included with the DNSSEC-Tools package for details.


AUTHORS

Abhijit Hayatnagarkar, Suresh Krishnaswamy, Robert Story, Michael Baer


SEE ALSO

val_get_rrset(3)

libval(3)

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