PDNS_NOTIFY(1)

💖 PDNS_NOTIFY(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the PowerDNS Authoritative Server manual, and today's main character is pdns_notify — the little utility that goes and pokes a nameserver to tell it "hey girl, your zone changed 👀". Grab a strawberry 🍓 and let's go.

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✨ NAME ✨

pdns_notify — a simple DNS NOTIFY sender 💅

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

pdns_notify IP_ADDRESS/HOSTNAME[:PORT] DOMAIN

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So here's the vibe: pdns_notify sends a DNS NOTIFY message to IP_ADDRESS or HOSTNAME, by default on port 53, for DOMAIN, and then it prints the remote nameserver's response. That's it, that's the whole job, and it ate. 🔥

And the cute part? If HOSTNAME resolves to multiple IP addresses, each one is notified. Not just the first one, not just a favourite — every single one gets the message. No cap. ✨

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🦋 OPTIONS 🦋

• None — literally none. zero. nothing to configure, nothing to pass, she's plug-and-play, she's low maintenance, she's iconic. 👑

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

PowerDNS.COM BV

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🌈 COPYRIGHT 🌈

PowerDNS.COM BV

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and that's the whole page, bestie — short, sweet, and fully slaying 🫶

signing off from the PDNS_NOTIFY(1) corner of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server world, dated Aug 05, 2026 — go notify somebody's nameserver, ily, bye 💖✨🎀