nsdc(8)

NAME
nsdc - Name Server Daemon (NSD) Control Script

SYNOPSIS
nsdc start|stop|reload|rebuild|restart|running|update|notify

DESCRIPTION
Nsdc is the shell script that used to control nsd(8) and zonec(8) from NSD distribution. Nsdc is also suitable to be linked into /etc/rc.d directory on BSD like systems for automatic startup of nsd(8) at the boot time.

At every invokation nsdc will try to source /etc/nsd/nsdc.conf configuration file (shell script) where default configuration settings can be overwritten. An example of such configuration file is distributed with the NSD package as nsdc.conf.sample

Possible nsdc applications are:

start
    Start nsd(8)

stop
    Shut down nsd(8) by sending SIGTERM to it.

reload
    Initiate nsd(8) name space database reload by sending SIGHUP

rebuild
    Rebuild the nsd(8) database by invoking zonec(8) with appropriate arguments.

restart
    Restart nsdc(8) This equals to nsdc stop && nsdc start

running
    Check whether nsd(8) is running. Returns error message and error code if it is not running, and no message and zero error code otherwise.

update
    Updates all the slave zones which have masters keyword in nsd.zones file from its masters and invokes nsdc rebuild and nsdc reload if necessary.

notify
    Sends notify message to all the masters for all the zones that have notify keyword in nsd.zones file.

See the README file for detailed description of nsd.zones file format.

FILES

/etc/nsd.zones
    Default location of configuration file.

/etc/nsd/nsd.db
    default NSD database

/var/run/nsd.pid
    the process id of the name server.

/etc/nsd/nsdc.conf
    Optional configuration file for nsdc to overwrite default pathnames and NSD flags.

DIAGNOSTICS
Nsdc will return zero return code if operation was successful and an error message to standard output plus a non-zero return code otherwise.

SEE ALSO
nsd(8), nsd-notify(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.

BUGS
nsd.zones syntax checking is almost nonexistent in nsdc erroneous lines are most likely to be ignored or will produce unexpected results. There is no locking for nsdc rebuild and nsdc update operations so those should be used with caution.

nsdc update with more than one master will give error messages and wont work with tsig. To fix the problem one can comment out checking for tsig file presence in nsdc.sh.in