Section 1: user commands and tools
NAME leaf – Lightweight Editor of Ascii(and more) Files SYNOPSIS leaf [-f] [-d dictionary] [+n] [filename] USAGE leaf is a simple console text file editor, with paragraph word-wrapping and spell checking. leaf is based on the text editor in the Cone mail reader and composer. leaf opens filename, positioning the cursor on the first line, or…
NAME ldrdf – link RDOFF objects and libraries produced by rdflib(1) SYNOPSIS ldrdf [-o output-file] object-file… [-llibrary…] DESCRIPTION ldrdf is a version of unix ld(1) (or DOS LINK) for use with RDOFF files. It is capable of linking RDOFF objects, and libraries produced with the rdflib(1) utility. Libraries must be specified with their path as…
NAME ldo65 – linker for o65 object files SYNOPSIS ldo65 [OPTION]… FILE… DESCRIPTION ldo65 is a linker for files in the `o65′ object format, formerly ld65 but renamed to avoid conflicts with the cc65 package (a separate product). OPTIONS -b? addr Relocate segment ? to addr. ? must be either t, d, b or z…
NAME ldnsd – simple daemon example code SYNOPSIS ldnsd port zone zonefile DESCRIPTION ldnsd is a simple daemon that answers queries for a zone. This is NOT a full-fledged authoritative nameserver! OPTIONS ldnsd takes a port, zone and zonefile as arguments. AUTHOR Written by the ldns team as an example for ldns usage. REPORTING BUGS…
NAME ldns-zsplit – split up a zone file SYNOPSIS ldns-zsplit [ OPTIONS ] zonefile DESCRIPTION OPTIONS -n NUMBER Split after NUMBER RRs, ldns-zsplit will not split in the middle of an RRs. Each part is saved with a numerical suffix, starting with .000. The largest suffix is thus .999. -o ORIGIN use ORIGIN as origin…
NAME ldns-zcat – reunite (z)split up a zone files SYNOPSIS ldns-zcat zonefiles DESCRIPTION ldns-zcat will read in a bunch of (z)split up zonefiles and creates a new larger zone file. The SOA record in the first part is used as the SOA record in the generated zone. The resulted zone file is printed to standard…
NAME ldns-walk – Retrieve the contents of a DNSSEC signed zone SYNOPSIS ldns-walk [ OPTION ] ZONE DESCRIPTION ldns-walk is used to retrieve the contents of a DNSSEC signed zone. It does this through NSEC-walking (following the chain of NSEC records) and ‘guessing’ the next non-existent owner name for each NSEC. Note that it might…
NAME ldns-version – print out the version of the ldns-library and tools on this system SYNOPSIS ldns-version DESCRIPTION ldns-version is used to print out version information of the ldns library and tools OPTIONS ldns-version has no options. AUTHOR Written by the ldns team as an example for ldns usage. REPORTING BUGS Report bugs to <ldns-team…
NAME ldns-verify-zone – read a DNSSEC signed zone and verify it. SYNOPSIS ldns-verify-zone ZONEFILE DESCRIPTION ldns-verify-zone reads a DNS zone file and verifies it. RRSIG resource records are checked against the DNSKEY set at the zone apex. Each name is checked for an NSEC(3), if appropriate. OPTIONS -h Show usage and exit -a Apex only,…
NAME ldns-update – send a dynamic update packet SYNOPSIS ldns-update [ zone ] ip [ tsig_name tsig_als tsig_hmac ] DESCRIPTION ldns-update is used to send a dynamic update packet. OPTIONS zone Use this zone instead of trying to read it from the zonefile’s SOA record. ip Send the update to this IP address tsig_name tsig_alg…
NAME ldns-testns – simple fake nameserver tool SYNOPSYS ldns-testns [ OPTION ] datafile DESCRIPTION ldns-testns can be used to provide answers to DNS queries for testing. The answers are premade, and can be tailored to testing needs. The answers can be wildly invalid or unparseable. This program is a debugging aid. It is not efficient,…
NAME ldns-test-edns – test if dns cache supports EDNS and DNSSEC. SYNOPSIS ldns-test-edns [ -i ] { ip } DESCRIPTION ldns-test-edns tests a DNS cache and checks if it supports EDNS0 and DNSSEC types so that it can be used as a dnssec-enabled DNS cache. It sends two queries to the cache, one for the…
NAME ldns-signzone – sign a zonefile with DNSSEC data SYNOPSIS ldns-signzone [ OPTIONS ] ZONEFILE KEY [KEY [KEY] … ] DESCRIPTION ldns-signzone is used to generate a DNSSEC signed zone. When run it will create a new zonefile that contains RRSIG and NSEC resource records, as specified in RFC 4033, RFC 4034 and RFC 4035….
NAME ldns-rrsig – print out the inception and expiration dates in human readable form SYNOPSIS ldns-rrsig domain [ type ] DESCRIPTION ldns-rrsig is used to print the expiration and inception date of a RRSIG. The first argument is a domain name. ldns-rrsig will query the authoritative servers for that domain to get a list of…
NAME ldns-revoke – sets the revoke bit of a DNSKEY SYNOPSIS ldns-revoke file DESCRIPTION ldns-revoke is used to revoke a public DNSKEY RR. When run it will read file with a DNSKEY RR in it, sets the revoke bit and write back the output to file . OPTIONS -n Write the result to stdout instead…
NAME ldns-resolver – tries to create a resolver from a resolv.conf file. SYNOPSIS ldns-resolver file DESCRIPTION ldns-resolver tries to create a resolver from a resolv.conf file. This is only useful to test the library for robusteness with input data. OPTIONS ldns-resolver takes a filename of the resolv.conf file as input. For example ldns-resolver /etc/resolv.conf will…
NAME ldns-read-zone – read a zonefile and print it SYNOPSIS ldns-read-zone ZONEFILE DESCRIPTION ldns-read-zone reads a DNS zone file and prints it. The output has 1 resource record per line, and no pretty-printing makeup. OPTIONS -c Canonicalize all resource records in the zone before printing -d Only print DNSSEC data from the zone. This option…
NAME ldns-nsec3-hash – print out the NSEC3 hash for a domain name SYNOPSIS ldns-nsec3-hash <domain_name> DESCRIPTION ldns-nsec3-hash is used to print out the NSEC3 hash for the given domain name. OPTIONS -a number Use the given algorithm number for the hash calculation. Defaults to 1 (SHA-1). -s salt Use the given salt for the hash…
NAME ldns-notify – notify DNS servers that updates are available SYNOPSIS ldns-notify [options] -z zone servers DESCRIPTION ldns-notify sends a NOTIFY message to DNS servers. This tells them that an updated zone is available at the master servers. It can perform TSIG signatures and it can add a SOA serial number of the updated zone….
NAME ldns-mx – print out the mx record(s) for a domain SYNOPSIS ldns-mx DOMAIN DESCRIPTION ldns-mx is used to print out mx information of a domain. OPTIONS ldns-mx has no options. AUTHOR Written by the ldns team as an example for ldns usage. REPORTING BUGS Report bugs to <ldns-team [at] nlnetlabs.nl>. COPYRIGHT Copyright (C) 2005…