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zonec(8) nsd 3.2.12 zonec(8) NAME
zonec - NSD zone compiler version 3.2.12. SYNOPSIS
zonec [-v] [-h] [-C] [-L] [-F] [-c configfile] [-d directory] [-o origin] [-z zonefile] [-f database] DESCRIPTION
Zonec is the nsd(8) database compiler for creating name space databases from a set of input master zone files specified in nsd.conf(5) file. It is normally invoked via nsdc(8) rebuild command. Zonec will then parse every zone in nsd.conf(5) file and add it to the name space database, /var/lib/nsd3/nsd.db by default, that is used by nsd(8) to answer incoming queries. OPTIONS
-c configfile Read specified configfile instead of the default /etc/nsd3/nsd.conf. -C No config file is read (use with -f, -o and -z). -d directory Change the working directory to directory before doing any work. Overrides zonesdir: option in config file. -f database Create the specified database instead of the file specified as database: in the config file. -o origin Use this as the first origin. Zone information is read from zonefile specified with -z. When reading zones from config file this option is ignored. -z zonefile Reads all zone information from zonefile. If zonefile equals `-`, then all zone information is read from stdin, making constructs like: # cat zones* | ./zonec -C -f nsd.db -o example.net -z - possible. When reading zones from config file this option is ignored. -v Increase the verbosity of zonec. This flag can be specified multiple times to increase the level of verbosity. The first level of verbosity will print per zone summary information. The second level of will print progress information for each 10,000 RRs pro- cessed. -F Set debug facilities. (If compiled with --enable-checking.) -L Set debug level. (If compiled with --enable-checking.) FILES
/var/lib/nsd3/nsd.db default NSD database /etc/nsd3/nsd.conf default NSD configuration file DIAGNOSTICS
Zonec will log all the problems via the standard error output and progress via stdout if the v option is specified. SEE ALSO
nsd(8), nsdc(8), nsd.conf(5), nsd-checkconf(8), nsd-notify(8), nsd-patch(8), nsd-xfer(8) AUTHORS
NSD was written by NLnet Labs and RIPE NCC joint team. Please see CREDITS file in the distribution for further details. BUGS
Zonec has rather weak error diagnostics that will change in further versions. Zonec expects the input files to be free of syntax errors and very little fool proof checks are done. NLnet Labs jul 19, 2012 zonec(8)
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NSDC(8) NSDC 3.2.12 NSDC(8) NAME
nsdc - Name Server Daemon (NSD) control script. SYNOPSIS
nsdc [-c configfile] start | stop | reload | rebuild | restart | running | update | notify | patch DESCRIPTION
Nsdc is the shell script that used to control nsd(8) and zonec(8) from NSD distribution. Nsdc is also suitable to be linked into /etc/rc.d directory on BSD like systems for automatic startup of nsd(8) at boot time. At every invokation, nsdc will try to read the nsd.conf(5) configuration file. An example of such configuration file is distributed with the NSD package as nsd.conf.sample. The config file is checked for errors before it is used, see nsd-checkconf(8). Possible nsdc applications are: start Start nsd(8). stop Shut down nsd(8) by sending SIGTERM to it. reload Initiate nsd(8) name space database reload by sending SIGHUP. rebuild Rebuild the nsd(8) database by invoking zonec(8) with appropriate arguments. restart Restart nsd(8). This equals to nsdc stop && nsdc start. running Check whether nsd(8) is running. Returns error message and error code if it is not running, and no message and zero error code oth- erwise. update Updates all the slave zones which have allow-notify: from localhost (127.0.0.1 or ::1) allowed. If a TSIG key is specified for the allow-notify statement in the config file, it will be used to secure the notify. Note that NSD keeps track of zone timeouts automat- ically, this is only needed if you want to manually force updates by sending notify messages to the localhost. Another method you can use is to stop nsd, delete the xfrd.state file and then start nsd again. It will try to update all zones. This method does not require allow-notify: statements. notify Sends notify messages to all the slaves for all the zones that have the notify: keyword in the nsd.conf file. If a TSIG key is spec- ified for a notify statement, it will be used to secure the notification message to that slave server. patch Merge zone transfer changes back to zone files. It reads in the nsd database (nsd.db) and difffile (ixfr.db), and overwrites the zone text files if they have been updated. Running this regularly ensures that the difffile does not grow infinitely. If any zone text files have been changed (including those of the master zones), the nsd.db is rebuild and nsd is reloaded. OPTIONS
-c configfile Specify configfile to use instead of the default /etc/nsd3/nsd.conf. FILES
/etc/nsd3/nsd.conf Configuration file for nsd to change default pathnames and NSD flags. The zone names, pathnames to zone files and access control lists are also in nsd.conf(5). /var/lib/nsd3/nsd.db default NSD database /var/lib/nsd3/nsd.db.lock Lockfile for the NSD database access by operator tools. /var/lib/nsd3/ixfr.db Journal of zone transfers, the diff file containing the new zone contents transferred. /var/lib/nsd3/xfrd.state State for the zone transfer process of NSD. Contains timeouts for the zones and whether zones are expired. /var/run/nsd3/nsd.pid the process id of the name server. DIAGNOSTICS
Nsdc will return zero return code if operation was successful and an error message to standard output plus a non-zero return code other- wise. SEE ALSO
nsd(8), nsd.conf(5), nsd-checkconf(8), nsd-notify(8), nsd-patch(8), nsd-xfer(8), zonec(8) AUTHORS
NSD was written by NLnet Labs and RIPE NCC joint team. Please see CREDITS file in the distribution for further details. BUGS
Syntax checking of the config file is rudimentary and error messages may be wrong. If you do a nsdc patch, whilst a (long) zone transfer is busy, the zone transfer contents will be partially lost. After a reload, this will be detected and the zone transfer should be restarted. The reload that happens at the end of nsdc patch also frees up memory churn in NSD caused by zone transfers. NLnet Labs jul 19, 2012 NSDC(8)