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PDNS_CONTROL(8) 					      System Manager's Manual						   PDNS_CONTROL(8)

NAME

       pdns_control - Control the pDNS nameserver

SYNOPSIS

       pdns_control [options] command

DESCRIPTION

       pdns_control is used to send commands to a running pDNS nameserver.

OPTIONS

       A summary of options is included below.

       --help
	      Show summary of options.

       --chroot=...
	      Where PowerDNS is chrooted

       --config-dir=...
	      Location of configuration directory (pdns.conf)

       --config-name=...
	      Name of this virtual configuration - will rename the binary image

       --remote-address=...
	      Remote address to query

       --remote-port=...
	      Remote port to query

       --secret=...
	      Secret needed to connect to remote PowerDNS

       --socket-dir=...
	      Where the controlsocket will live

COMMANDS

       ccounts
	      Show the content of the cache

       notify <domain>
	      Adds  a  domain  to  the	notification list, causing PDNS to send out notifications to the nameservers of a domain. Can be used if a
	      slave missed previous notifications or is generally hard of hearing.

       notify-host <domain> <host>
	      Same as above but with operator specified IP address as destination, to be used if you know better than PowerDNS.

       cycle  Restart the nameserver so it reloads its configuration.

       ping   Check if the server is alive.

       purge [<record>]
	      Purge entries from the packet cache. If the record name ends with a dollar ($) all entries that end with that name are  removed.	If
	      no record is specified the entire cache is purged.

       rediscover
	      Instructs backends that new domains may have appeared in the database, or, in the case of the Bind backend, in named.conf.

       retrieve <domain>
	      Retrieve a slave domain from its master. Done nearly immediatly.

       set <variable> <value>
	      Set the configuration parameter <variable> to <value>. Currently only the query-logging can be set.

       show <variable>
	      Show a single statistic, as present in the output of the list command.

       quit   Tell a running pdns_server to quit.

       status Show usage statistics.

       uptime Show the uptime of the running server.

       version
	      Print the version of the running pdns daemon.

FILES

       <socket>
	      Control socket used to communicate with pdns_server.

SEE ALSO

       pdns_server(8)

PowerDNS							   December 2002						   PDNS_CONTROL(8)

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RESOLVER(5)							File Formats Manual						       RESOLVER(5)

NAME

       resolver - resolver configuration file

SYNOPSIS

       /etc/resolv.conf

DESCRIPTION

       The  resolver  configuration  file contains information that is read by the resolver routines the first time they are invoked by a process.
       The file is designed to be human readable and contains a list of name-value pairs that provide various types of resolver information.

       On a normally configured system this file should not be necessary.  The only name server to be queried will be on the local machine and the
       domain name is retrieved from the system.

       The different configuration options are:

       nameserver
	      followed by the Internet address (in dot notation) of a name server that the resolver should query.  At least one name server should
	      be listed.  Up to MAXNS (currently 3) name servers may be listed, in that case the resolver library queries tries them in the  order
	      listed.	If  no nameserver entries are present, the default is to use the name server on the local machine.  (The algorithm used is
	      to try a name server, and if the query times out, try the next, until out of name servers, then repeat trying all the  name  servers
	      until a maximum number of retries are made).

       domain followed	by  a domain name, that is the default domain to append to names that do not have a dot in them.  If no domain entries are
	      present, the domain returned by gethostname(2) is used (everything after the first `.').	Finally, if the host name does not contain
	      a domain part, the root domain is assumed.

       The  name  value  pair must appear on a single line, and the keyword (e.g. nameserver) must start the line.  The value follows the keyword,
       separated by white space.

FILES

       /etc/resolv.conf

SEE ALSO

       gethostbyname(3N), resolver(3), named(8)
       Name Server Operations Guide for BIND

4th Berkeley Distribution					September 14, 1987						       RESOLVER(5)

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