nsd-notify (8) Linux Manual Page

nsd-notify – program to send NOTIFY’s to remote nameservers.

Synopsis

nsd-notify [-4] [-6] [-h] [-a address[@port]] [-p port] [-y key:secret[:algorithm]] -z zone servers

Description

Nsd-notify is simple program to send NOTIFY’s to remoter nameservers. NSD is a complete implementation of an authoritative DNS nameserver.

Options

-4

Only send to IPv4 addresses.

-6

Only send to IPv6 addresses.

-h

Print help information and exit.

-a address[@port]

Specify the source address (and port) to send from.

-p port

Specify the port to send to.

-y key:secret[:algorithm]

Specify a TSIG key and base64 encoded secret to sign the notification with. If the TSIG algorithm is not defined, MD5 is used.

z zone

Specify the zone to notify about.

servers

List of nameservers to send to.

Examples

To run this program the standard way type:

# nsd-notify -z foobar.cz 1.2.3.4

See Also

nsd(8), nsdc(8), nsd.conf(5), nsd-checkconf(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.