systemd-resolve systemd Developer Lennart Poettering lennart@poettering.net systemd-resolve 1 systemd-resolve Resolve domain names, IPV4 and IPv6 addresses, DNS resource records, and services systemd-resolve OPTIONS HOSTNAME systemd-resolve OPTIONS ADDRESS systemd-resolve OPTIONS --type=TYPE RRDOMAIN systemd-resolve OPTIONS --service NAME TYPE DOMAIN systemd-resolve OPTIONS --statistics systemd-resolve OPTIONS --reset-statistics Description systemd-resolve may be used to resolve domain names, IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, DNS resource records and services with the systemd-resolved.service8 resolver service. By default, the specified list of parameters will be resolved as hostnames, retrieving their IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. If the parameters specified are formatted as IPv4 or IPv6 operation the reverse operation is done, and a hostname is retrieved for the specified addresses. The switch may be used to specify a DNS resource record type (A, AAAA, SOA, MX, ...) in order to request a specific DNS resource record, instead of the address or reverse address lookups. The switch may be used to resolve SRV and DNS-SD services (see below). In this mode, between one and three arguments are required. If three parameters are passed the first is assumed to be the DNS-SD service name, the second the SRV service type, and the third the domain to search in. In this case a full DNS-SD style SRV and TXT lookup is executed. If only two parameters are specified, the first is assumed to be the SRV service type, and the second the domain to look in. In this case no TXT RR is requested. Finally, if only one parameter is specified, it is assumed to be a domain name, that is already prefixed with an SRV type, and an SRV lookup is done (no TXT). The switch may be used to show resolver statistics, including information about the number of succesful and failed DNSSEC validations. The may be used to reset various statistics counters maintained the resolver, including those shown in the output. This operation requires root privileges. Options By default, when resolving a hostname, both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are acquired. By specifying only IPv4 addresses are requested, by specifying only IPv6 addresses are requested. INTERFACE INTERFACE Specifies the network interface to execute the query on. This may either be specified as numeric interface index or as network interface string (e.g. en0). Note that this option has no effect if system-wide DNS configuration (as configured in /etc/resolv.conf or /etc/systemd/resolve.conf) in place of per-link configuration is used. PROTOCOL PROTOCOL Specifies the network protocol for the query. May be one of dns (i.e. classic unicast DNS), llmnr (Link-Local Multicast Name Resolution), llmr-ipv4, llmnr-ipv6 (LLMNR via the indicated underlying IP protocols). By default the lookup is done via all protocols suitable for the lookup. If used, limits the set of protocols that may be used. Use this option multiple times to enable resolving via multiple protocols at the same time. The setting llmnr is identical to specifying this switch once with llmnr-ipv4 and once via llmnr-ipv6. Note that this option does not force the service to resolve the operation with the specified protocol, as that might require a suitable network interface and configuration. TYPE TYPE CLASS CLASS Specifies the DNS resource record type (e.g. A, AAAA, MX, …) and class (e.g. IN, ANY, …) to look up. If these options are used a DNS resource record set matching the specified class and type is requested. The class defaults to IN if only a type is specified. Enables service resolution. This enables DNS-SD and simple SRV service resolution, dependending on the specified list of parameters (see above). BOOL Takes a boolean parameter. If true (the default), when doing a service lookup with the hostnames contained in the SRV resource records are resolved as well. BOOL Takes a boolean parameter. If true (the default), when doing a DNS-SD service lookup with the TXT service metadata record is resolved as well. BOOL Takes a boolean parameter. If true (the default), DNS CNAME or DNAME redirections are followed. Otherwise, if a CNAME or DNAME record is encountered while resolving, an error is returned. BOOL Takes a boolean parameter. If true (the default), any specified single-label hostnames will be searched in the domains configured in the search domain list, if it is non-empty. Otherwise, the search domain logic is disabled. BOOL Takes a boolean parameter. If true (the default), column headers and meta information about the query response are shown. Otherwise, this output is suppressed. If specified general resolver statistics are shown, including information whether DNSSEC is enabled and available, as well as resolution and validation statistics. Resets the statistics counters shown in to zero. Examples Retrieve the addresses of the <literal>www.0pointer.net</literal> domain $ systemd-resolve www.0pointer.net Retrieve the domain of the <literal>85.214.157.71</literal> IP address $ systemd-resolve 85.214.157.71 Retrieve the MX record of the <literal>0pointer.net</literal> domain $ systemd-resolve -t MX 0pointer.net Resolve an SRV service $ systemd-resolve --service _xmpp-server._tcp gmail.com See Also systemd1, systemd-resolved.service8