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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 not searched for in
              the PATH set in the environment.  Instead the  default  location  relative  to  the
              installation  prefix  specified  at  compile-time.   The executable location can be
              overridden by setting NSD_PATH 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,  also
              per-zone   statistics  are  not  applied.   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.

       changezone <zone name> <pattern name>
              Change a zone to use the pattern for options.  The zone is deleted and added in one
              operation, changing it to  use  the  new  pattern  for  the  zone  options.   Zones
              configured  in  nsd.conf cannot be changed like this, instead edit the nsd.conf (or
              the included file in nsd.conf) and reconfig.

       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.
              With  argument  that  zone  is  written  if  it was modified, without argument, all
              modified zones are written.

       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. With argument that zone
              is processed, without argument, all zones are processed.

       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. With argument  that  zone  is  transferred,  without
              argument, all zones are transferred.

       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. With argument that zone is transferred, without argument,  all  zones  are
              transferred.

       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. With  argument  that
              zone is printed, without argument, all zones are printed.

       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.

       print_tsig [<key_name>]
              print  the  secret  and algorithm for the TSIG key with that name.  Or list all the
              tsig keys with their name, secret and algorithm.

       update_tsig <name> <secret>
              Change existing TSIG key with name to the new  secret.   The  secret  is  a  base64
              encoded  string.   The  changes  are  only in-memory and are gone next restart, for
              lasting changes edit the nsd.conf file or a file included from it.

       add_tsig <name> <secret> [algo]
              Add a new TSIG key with the given name, secret and algorithm.  Without algorithm  a
              default  (hmac-sha256)  algorithm  is used.  The secret is a base64 encoded string.
              The changes are only in-memory and are gone next restart, for lasting changes  edit
              the nsd.conf file or a file included from it.

       assoc_tsig <zone> <key_name>
              Associate  the  zone  with  the  given  tsig.  The access control lists for notify,
              allow-notify, provide-xfr and request-xfr are adjusted to use the given key.

       del_tsig <key_name>
              Delete the TSIG key with the given name.  Prints error if the key is still  in  use
              by  some  zone.   The  changes  are  only  in-memory and are gone next restart, for
              lasting changes edit the nsd.conf file or a file included from it.

       add_cookie_secret <secret>
              Add or replace a cookie secret persistently. <secret> needs to be an  128  bit  hex
              string.

              Cookie  secrets  can be either active or staging. Active cookie secrets are used to
              create DNS Cookies, but verification of a DNS  Cookie  succeeds  with  any  of  the
              active  or  staging  cookie secrets. The state of the current cookie secrets can be
              printed with the print_cookie_secrets command.

              When there are no cookie secrets configured yet, the <secret> is added  as  active.
              If  there  is  already an active cookie secret, the <secret> is added as staging or
              replacing an existing staging secret.

              To "roll" a cookie secret used in an anycast set. The new secret has to be added as
              staging  secret  to  all  nodes  in  the anycast set. When all nodes can verify DNS
              Cookies  with  the  new  secret,  the  new  secret  can  be  activated   with   the
              activate_cookie_secret  command.  After all nodes have the new secret active for at
              least one hour, the previous secret can  be  dropped  with  the  drop_cookie_secret
              command.

              Persistence  is  accomplished  by  writing  to  a file which if configured with the
              cookie-secret-file option in the server section of the config  file.   The  default
              value for that is: /etc/nsd/nsd_cookiesecrets.txt .

       drop_cookie_secret
              Drop the staging cookie secret.

       activate_cookie_secret
              Make the current staging cookie secret active, and the current active cookie secret
              staging.

       print_cookie_secrets
              Show the current configured cookie secrets with their status.

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 tls, 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.tls
              number of connections over TLS ip4.  TLS queries are not part of num.tcp.

       num.tls6
              number of connections over TLS ip6.  TLS queries are not part of num.tcp6.

       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.rixfr
              number of IXFR 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).

SEE ALSO

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