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.

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.

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.

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).