ldns(3)

💖 ldns_create_nsec — Create a NSEC record 💖

okay bestie, we're deep in the ldns(3) library functions manual now, and today's main character is a little function that makes NSEC records. stay with me, it's giving DNS internals and honestly? kinda iconic. 🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

ldns_create_nsec — Create a NSEC record

no cap, that's literally the whole name section. short and slay.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <stdint.h>
#include <stdbool.h>

#include <ldns/ldns.h>

ldns_rr * ldns_create_nsec(ldns_rdf *cur_owner, ldns_rdf *next_owner,
ldns_rr_list *rrs);

so you pull in <stdint.h>, <stdbool.h>, and <ldns/ldns.h> — the holy trinity of "i'm about to do DNS stuff" — and then you call ldns_create_nsec() and it hands you back an ldns_rr *. periodt. 💅

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

ldns_create_nsec() Create a NSEC record 🫶

like, it makes the NSEC record. that's the vibe. here's what you gotta feed it:

• cur_owner — the current owner which should be taken as the starting point
• next_owner — the rrlist which the nsec rr should point to
• rrs — all rrs from the zone, to find all RR types of cur_owner in

and then — the moment we've all been waiting for — it Returns a ldns_rr with the nsec record in it. ✨ ate, no crumbs.

ngl, next_owner being described as "the rrlist which the nsec rr should point to" is exactly what the original says, so i'm keeping it verbatim bestie, don't come for me 😭

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

The ldns team at NLnet Labs. absolute legends, fr fr.

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💀 REPORTING BUGS 💀

found a bug? don't suffer in silence, bestie. please report bugs to dns-team@nlnetlabs.nl or on GitHub at https://github.com/NLnetLabs/ldns/issues 🐛

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🌈 COPYRIGHT 🌈

Copyright (c) 2004 - 2006 NLnet Labs.

Licensed under the BSD License. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

okay that's the dramatic part — no warranty, not even for merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. read it and weep, but like, legally. 😭

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• ldns_sign_public

And perldoc Net::DNS, RFC1034, RFC1035, RFC4033, RFC4034 and RFC4035. the whole RFC cinematic universe, iykyk. 📚

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🧚 REMARKS 🧚

This manpage was automatically generated from the ldns source code. (not me being a robot-written page and still serving looks 💅)

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and that's the whole page, bestie! mwah 💖

so this little beauty came out with ldns(3) as its manual name and it's from way back on 30 May 2006 — yeah, it's been slaying since 2006, we love a vintage queen 👑✨