nsd-notify(8)

nsd-notify8

Program to send notify's to remote nameservers.

Usage

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

Overview

Nsd-notify is simple program to send NOTIFY's to remote 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

Releases

5 releases since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); the text changed 4 times.

  1. 3.1
  2. 4.0
  3. 5.0
  4. 6.0
  5. 7

-a since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); -h since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); -y since Debian 5.0 (Lenny).

-z until Debian 5.0 (Lenny).

Authors

NSD was written by NLnet Labs and RIPE NCC joint team. Please see CREDITS file in the distribution for further details.

From nsd3 3.2.12-3+deb7u1 in Debian 7 (Wheezy). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.