Ubuntu Manpage: nsd-control, nsd-control-setup - NSD remote server control utility.

NAME

       nsd-control, nsd-control-setup - NSD remote server control utility.

SYNOPSIS

       nsd-control [-c cfgfile] [-s server] command

DESCRIPTION

       nsd-control  performs  remote  administration on the nsd(8) DNS server.  It reads the configuration file,
       contacts the nsd server over SSL, sends the command and displays the result.

       The available options are:

       -h     Show the version and commandline option help.

       -c cfgfile
              The config file to read with settings.  If not given the default config file /etc/nsd/nsd.conf  is
              used.

       -s server[@port]
              IPv4  or IPv6 address of the server to contact.  If not given, the address is read from the config
              file.

COMMANDS

There are several commands that the server understands.

start Start the server. Simply execs nsd(8). The nsd executable is searched for in the PATH set in the
environment. It is started with the config file specified using -c or the default config file.

stop Stop the server. The server daemon exits.

reload [<zone>]
Reload zonefiles and reopen logfile. Without argument reads changed zonefiles. With argument
reads the zonefile for the given zone and loads it.

reconfig
Reload nsd.conf and apply changes to TSIG keys and configuration patterns, and apply the changes
to add and remove zones that are mentioned in the config. Other changes are not applied, such as
listening ip address and port and chroot. The pattern updates means that the configuration
options for zones (request-xfr, zonefile, notify, ...) are updated. Also new patterns are
available for use with the addzone command.

repattern
Same as the reconfig option.

log_reopen
Reopen the logfile, for log rotate that wants to move the logfile away and create a new logfile.
The log can also be reopened with kill -HUP (which also reloads all zonefiles).

status Display server status. Exit code 3 if not running (the connection to the port is refused), 1 on
error, 0 if running.

stats Output a sequence of name=value lines with statistics information, requires NSD to be compiled
with this option enabled.

stats_noreset
Same as stats, but does not zero the counters.

addzone <zone name> <pattern name>
Add a new zone to the running server. The zone is added to the zonelist file on disk, so it stays
after a restart. The pattern name determines the options for the new zone. For slave zones a
zone transfer is immediately attempted. For zones with a zonefile, the zone file is attempted to
be read in.

delzone <zone name>
Remove the zone from the running server. The zone is removed from the zonelist file on disk, from
the nsd.db file and from the memory. If it had a zonefile, this remains (but may be outdated).
Zones configured inside nsd.conf itself cannot be removed this way because the daemon does not
write to the nsd.conf file, you need to add such zones to the zonelist file to be able to delete
them with the delzone command.

addzones
Add zones read from stdin of nsd-control. Input is read per line, with name space patternname on
a line. For bulk additions.

delzones
Remove zones read from stdin of nsd-control. Input is one name per line. For bulk removals.

write [<zone>]
Write zonefiles to disk, or the given zonefile to disk. Zones that have changed (via AXFR or
IXFR) are written, or if the zonefile has not been created yet then it is created. Directory
components of the zonefile path are created if necessary.

notify [<zone>]
Send NOTIFY messages to slave servers. Sends to the IP addresses configured in the 'notify:'
lists for the master zones hosted on this server. Usually NSD sends NOTIFY messages right away
when a master zone serial is updated. If a zone is given, notifies are sent for that zone. These
slave servers are supposed to initiate a zone transfer request later (to this server or another
master), this can be allowed via the 'provide-xfr:' acl list configuration.

transfer [<zone>]
Attempt to update slave zones that are hosted on this server by contacting the masters. The
masters are configured via 'request-xfr:' lists. If a zone is given, that zone is updated.
Usually NSD receives a NOTIFY from the masters (configured via 'allow-notify:' acl list) that a
new zone serial has to be transferred. For zones with no content, NSD may have backed off from
asking often because the masters did not respond, but this command will reset the backoff to its
initial timeout, for frequent retries.

force_transfer [<zone>]
Force update slave zones that are hosted on this server. Even if the master hosts the same serial
number of the zone, a full AXFR is performed to fetch it. If you want to use IXFR and check that
the serial number increases, use the 'transfer' command.

zonestatus [<zone>]
Print state of the zone, the serial numbers and since when they have been acquired. Also prints
the notify action (to which server), and zone transfer (and from which master) if there is
activity right now. The state of the zone is printed as: 'master' (master zones), 'ok' (slave
zone is up-to-date), 'expired' (slave zone has expired), 'refreshing' (slave zone has transfers
active). The serial numbers printed are the 'served-serial' (currently active), the
'commit-serial' (is in reload), the 'notified-serial' (got notify, busy fetching the data). The
serial numbers are only printed if such a serial number is available.

serverpid
Prints the PID of the server process. This is used for statistics (and only works when NSD is
compiled with statistics enabled). This pid is not for sending unix signals, use the pid from
nsd.pid for that, that pid is also stable.

verbosity <number>
Change logging verbosity.

EXIT CODE

       The nsd-control program exits with status code 1 on error, 0 on success.

SET UP

       The setup requires a self-signed certificate and private keys for both the server and client.  The script
       nsd-control-setup generates these in the default run directory, or with -d in another directory.  If  you
       change the access control permissions on the key files you can decide who can use nsd-control, by default
       owner and group but not all users.  The script preserves private keys present in the directory.

STATISTIC COUNTERS

The stats command shows a number of statistic counters.

num.queries
number of queries received (the tcp and udp queries added up).

serverX.queries
number of queries handled by the server process. The number of server processes is set with the
config statement server-count.

time.boot
uptime in seconds since the server was started. With fractional seconds.

time.elapsed
time since the last stats report, in seconds. With fractional seconds. Can be zero if polled
quickly and the previous stats command resets the counters, so that the next gets a fully zero,
and zero elapsed time, report.

size.db.disk
size of nsd.db on disk, in bytes.

size.db.mem
size of the DNS database in memory, in bytes.

size.xfrd.mem
size of memory for zone transfers and notifies in xfrd process, excludes TSIG data, in bytes.

size.config.disk
size of zonelist file on disk, excludes the nsd.conf size, in bytes.

size.config.mem
size of config data in memory, kept twice in server and xfrd process, in bytes.

num.type.X
number of queries with this query type.

num.opcode.X
number of queries with this opcode.

num.class.X
number of queries with this query class.

num.rcode.X
number of answers that carried this return code.

num.edns
number of queries with EDNS OPT.

num.ednserr
number of queries which failed EDNS parse.

num.udp
number of queries over UDP ip4.

num.udp6
number of queries over UDP ip6.

num.tcp
number of connections over TCP ip4.

num.tcp6
number of connections over TCP ip6.

num.answer_wo_aa
number of answers with NOERROR rcode and without AA flag, this includes the referrals.

num.rxerr
number of queries for which the receive failed.

num.txerr
number of answers for which the transmit failed.

num.raxfr
number of AXFR requests from clients (that got served with reply).

num.truncated
number of answers with TC flag set.

num.dropped
number of queries that were dropped because they failed sanity check.

zone.master
number of master zones served. These are zones with no 'request-xfr:' entries.

zone.slave
number of slave zones served. These are zones with 'request-xfr' entries.

FILES

       /etc/nsd/nsd.conf
              nsd configuration file.

       /etc/nsd
              directory with private keys (nsd_server.key  and  nsd_control.key)  and  self-signed  certificates
              (nsd_server.pem and nsd_control.pem).