YADIFA-CONF(5)

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version 3.0.9 · 9 versions
, in alpine 3.24

💅 NAME 💅

okay bestie, welcome to yadifa.conf — we’re in the YADIFA manual, page YADIFA-CONF(5), and this is literally the configuration file for yadifa(8). slay. ✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

the whole vibe check is just this path:

${SYSCONFDIR}/yadifa.conf

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

okay so the config for yadifa has several containers, and they’re giving organized-bestie energy:

  • <yadifa-ctrl> — Controller module settings
  • <key> — TSIG keys

It also supports included files, like this iconic little line:

include /home/yadifa/yadifa-keys.conf

and yes, the configuration files can be nested. 🪆 not me being obsessed with layers, but here we are.

The configuration consists of:

  • Container, which starts with <container name> and ends with </container name>
  • Variable name
  • 1 or 2 arguments
  • Arguments can contain 1 or more comma separated values.

eg.

<container>
    # variable  argument
    variable    value1

    # variable  argument1       argument2
    variable    value1          value2

    # variable  argument1
    variable    value1,value2
</container>

🌸 EXAMPLES 🌸

Examples of containers defined for a configuration file — these are the main characters:

  • Controller
<yadifa-ctrl>
    server        "192.0.2.1 port 53"
    tsig-key-name controller
</yadifa-ctrl>
  • KEY, controller TSIG key definition (the name is arbitrary)
<key>
    name        controller
    algorithm   hmac-md5
    secret      WorthlessKeyForExample==
</key>

🦋 FILES 🦋

  • yadifa — The name server remote client.
  • ${SYSCONFDIR}/yadifa.conf — default conffile.
  • ${HOME}/.yadifa.rc — default rcfile.
  • yadifa.conf.5 — This man page.
  • yadifa.8 — Man page for yadifa.

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

go check out yadifa.rc(5) and yadifa(8) — bestie homework, but make it cute. 💖

🌈 NOTES 🌈

Since unquoted leading whitespace is generally ignored in the yadifa.conf you can indent everything to taste.

so yes, make it pretty. indent to your heart’s content. 💅

⭐ CHANGES ⭐

Please check the file README from the sources. that’s where the receipts live, fr fr.

👑 VERSION 👑

Version: 3.0.9 of 2026-03-24 — iconic, timestamped, periodt.

💌 MAILING LISTS 💌

There exists a mailinglist for questions relating to any program in the yadifa package:

If you would like to stay informed about new versions and official patches send a subscription request to via:

(this is a readonly list).

Copyright

(C)2011-2025, EURid
B-1831 Diegem, Belgium
info@yadifa.eu

🫶 AUTHORS 🫶

  • Gery Van Emelen — Email: Gery.VanEmelen@EURid.eu
  • Eric Diaz Fernandez — Email: Eric.DiazFernandez@EURid.eu
  • WWW: http://www.EURid.eu

mwah 💋 — that’s it from the YADIFA source, dated 2026-03-24, on the YADIFA-CONF(5) page. byeee 👋💖

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