Section 1: user commands and tools
NAME ldns-keygen – generate a DNSSEC key pair SYNOPSIS ldns-keygen [ OPTION ] DOMAIN DESCRIPTION ldns-keygen is used to generate a private/public keypair. When run, it will create 3 files; a .key file with the public DNSKEY, a .private file with the private keydata and a .ds with the DS record of the DNSKEY record….
NAME ldns-keyfetcher – retrieve the DNSSEC DNSKEYs for a zone SYNOPSIS ldns-keyfetcher [ OPTIONS ] DOMAIN DESCRIPTION ldns-keyfetcher is used to retrieve the DNSKEYs of a zone. First it finds all authoritative nameservers of the zone by tracing it from the root down. All authoritative nameservers are then queried (using TCP) for the DNSKEY RRset…
NAME ldns-key2ds – transform a DNSKEY RR to a DS RR SYNOPSIS ldns-key2ds file DESCRIPTION ldns-key2ds is used to transform a public DNSKEY RR to a DS RR. When run it will read file with a DNSKEY RR in it and it will create a .ds file with the DS RR in it. It prints…
NAME ldns-gen-zone – read a zonefile and print it while adding DS records and extra RR’s SYNOPSIS ldns-gen-zone ZONEFILE DESCRIPTION ldns-gen-zone reads a DNS zone file and prints it. It is build for speed, not for a nice formatting. The output has one resource record per line and no pretty-printing makeup. DNSSEC data (NSEC, NSEC3,…
NAME dpa – DNS Packet Analyzer. Analyze DNS packets in ip trace files SYNOPSIS dpa [ OPTION ] TRACEFILE DESCRIPTION dpa is used to analyze dns packets in trace files. It has 3 main options: count, filter, and count uniques (i.e. count all different occurences). OPTIONS -c expressionlist Count occurrences of matching expressions -f expression…
NAME ldns-dane – verify or create TLS authentication with DANE (RFC6698) SYNOPSIS ldns-dane [OPTIONS] verify name port ldns-dane [OPTIONS] -t tlsafile verify ldns-dane [OPTIONS] name port create [ Certificate-usage [ Selector [ Matching-type ] ] ] ldns-dane -h ldns-dane -v DESCRIPTION In the first form: A TLS connection to name:port is established. The TLSA resource…
NAME ldns-config – show compiler and linker flags for ldns usage. SYNOPSIS ldns-config [ OPTIONS ] DESCRIPTION When writing programs using ldns, you have to tell the compiler where to look for include files and what libraries from which location to link to. ldns-config can be used to find out what flags to use with…
NAME ldns-compare-zones – read and compare two zonefiles and print differences SYNOPSIS ldns-compare-zones [-c] [-i] [-d] [-z] [-s] ZONEFILE1 ZONEFILE2 DESCRIPTION ldns-compare-zones reads two DNS zone files and prints number of differences. Output is formated to: +NUM_INS -NUM_DEL ~NUM_CHG The major comparison is based on the owner name. If an owner name is present in…
NAME ldns-chaos – give some information about a nameserver SYNOPSIS ldns-chaos NAMESERVER DESCRIPTION ldns-chaos retrieves all the addresses of the nameserver and then queries each address for its version.bind and hostname.bind. ldns-chaos is a bit more complex than ldns-mx. OPTIONS ldns-chaos has no options. AUTHOR Written by the ldns team as an example for ldns…
NAME ldmtool – A tool to manage Microsoft Windows dynamic disks SYNOPSIS ldmtool [options] ldmtool [options] scan [device…] ldmtool [options] show diskgroup {disk group GUID} ldmtool [options] show {volume | partition | disk} {disk group GUID} {object name} ldmtool [options] {create | remove} all ldmtool [options] {create | remove} volume {disk group GUID} {volume name}…
NAME ldif – manipulates an LDIF stream by adding a column with the defined attribute type SYNOPSIS ldif [-b] attrtype DESCRIPTION Manipulates an LDIF stream by adding a column with the defined attribute type OPTIONS A summary of options is included below: -b Output base64 binary format USAGE ldif dn < /tmp/ldif AUTHOR ldif was…
NAME ldd – print shared object dependencies SYNOPSIS ldd [option]… file… DESCRIPTION ldd prints the shared objects (shared libraries) required by each program or shared object specified on the command line. An example of its use and output (using sed(1) to trim leading white space for readability in this page) is the following: $ ldd…
NAME ldclt – load test program for LDAP SYNOPSYS ldclt [-qQvV] [-E <max errors>] [-b <base DN>] [-h <host>] [-p <port>] [-t <timeout>] [-D <bind DN>] [-w <passwd>] [-o <SASL option>] [-e <execParams>] [-a <max pending>] [-n <nb threads>] [-i <nb times>] [-N <nb samples>] [-I <err number>] [-T <total>] [-r <low> -R <high>] [-f…
NAME ldbsearch – Search for records in a LDB database SYNOPSIS ldbsearch [-h] [-s base|one|sub] [-b basedn] [-i] [-H LDB-URL] [expression] [attributes] DESCRIPTION ldbsearch searches a LDB database for records matching the specified expression (see the ldapsearch(1) manpage for a description of the expression format). For each record, the specified attributes are printed. OPTIONS -h…
NAME ldbrename – Edit LDB databases using your favorite editor SYNOPSIS ldbrename [-h] [-o options] {olddn} {newdn} DESCRIPTION ldbrename is a utility that allows you to rename trees in an LDB database based by DN. This utility takes two arguments: the original DN name of the top element and the DN to change it to….
NAME ldbmodify – Modify records in a LDB database SYNOPSIS ldbmodify [-H LDB-URL] [ldif-file] DESCRIPTION ldbmodify changes, adds and deletes records in a LDB database. The changes that should be made to the LDB database are read from the specified LDIF-file. If – is specified as the filename, input is read from stdin. For now,…
NAME ldbedit – Edit LDB databases using your preferred editor SYNOPSIS ldbedit [-?] [–usage] [-s base|one|sub] [-b basedn] [-a] [-e editor] [-H LDB-URL] [expression] [attributes…] DESCRIPTION ldbedit is a utility that allows you to edit LDB entries (in tdb files, sqlite files or LDAP servers) using your preferred editor. ldbedit generates an LDIF file based…
NAME ldbdel – Command-line program for deleting LDB records SYNOPSIS ldbdel [-h] [-H LDB-URL] [dn] […] DESCRIPTION ldbdel deletes records from an ldb(3) database. It deletes the records identified by the dn’s specified on the command-line. ldbdel uses either the database that is specified with the -H option or the database specified by the LDB_URL…
NAME ldbadd – Command-line utility for adding records to an LDB SYNOPSIS ldbadd [-h] [-H LDB-URL] [ldif-file1] [ldif-file2] […] DESCRIPTION ldbadd adds records to an ldb(3) database. It reads the ldif(5) files specified on the command line and adds the records from these files to the LDB database, which is specified by the -H option…
ldbsearch – Search for records in a LDB database Synopsis FCldbsearchF[] [-h] [-s base|one|sub] [-b basedn] [-i] [-H LDB-URL] [expression] [attributes] DESCRIPTION ldbsearch searches a LDB database for records matching the specified expression (see the ldapsearch(1) manpage for a description of the expression format). For each record, the specified attributes are printed. OPTIONS -h Show…