ldns-notify(1)

💌 ldns-notify — it's giving "hey bestie, the zone changed" 💅

okay so this is a page from the General Commands Manual, and it's about ldns-notify, and honestly? she's a little legend.

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✨ NAME ✨

ldns-notify — notify DNS servers that updates are available 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ldns-notify [options] -z zone servers

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so here's the tea ☕ — ldns-notify sends a NOTIFY message to DNS servers. what that does is tell them "hey, an updated zone is available at the master servers" 👑 like a little group chat message but for zones.

she can also do TSIG signatures, and she can add a SOA serial number of the updated zone. and the cute part? if a server already has that serial number, it will just disregard the message entirely. no drama, no nothing. periodt. 💅

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -z zone — the zone that is updated. literally the whole point bestie 💖
• -I address — source IP to send the query from. like, where you're sending it from, the origin, the home base 🏠
• -h — show usage and exit. little help moment 🙈
• -v — show the version and exit. identity check ✨
• -s serial — append a SOA record indicating the serial number of the updated zone. this is the "btw it's THIS version" receipt 🧾
• -p port — use port as the destination port (default the DNS port 53) for the UDP packets 🚪
• -y key:data[:algo] — use the given TSIG key and base64-data, and optionally an algorithm to sign the NOTIFY. the algorithm defaults to hmac-md5.sig-alg.reg.int 🔐 no cap, that's the default.
• -d — print verbose debug information. and by verbose we mean the query that is sent AND the query that is received. both. she's showing you everything 👀
• -r num — specify the maximum number of retries before notify gives up trying to send the UDP packet. like, she will try, but she's not gonna try forever 😭

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💀 EXIT CODE 💀

the program exits with a 0 exit code if all servers replied an acknowledgement to the notify message, and a failure exit code otherwise. that's it. that's the whole vibe check.

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

written by the ldns team as an example for ldns usage. icons teaching by example, we love to see it 🫶

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🌈 REPORTING BUGS 🌈

report bugs to <dns-team@nlnetlabs.nl>. they wanna hear it fr fr 📬

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⭐ COPYRIGHT ⭐

Copyright (C) 2005 NLnet Labs. this is free software. there is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

like genuinely no warranty bestie, none, zero, nada 🙈

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and that's the whole page!! 🎀 this edition was dated 9 Jan 2007 and lives in the ldns-notify(1) corner of the manual. slay, bye 💖✨🦋