Usage: pdnsutil [options] [params...] Autoprimary Commands: autoprimary add IP NAMESERVER [ACCOUNT] Add a new autoprimary autoprimary list List all autoprimaries autoprimary remove IP NAMESERVER Remove an autoprimary Catalog Zone Commands: catalog list-members CATALOG List all members of catalog zone CATALOG catalog set ZONE [CATALOG] Change the catalog of ZONE to CATALOG, or removes ZONE from its current catalog if no catalog provided Zone Metadata Commands: metadata add ZONE KIND VALUE [VALUE...] Add zone metadata, this adds to the existing KIND metadata get ZONE [KIND...] Get zone metadata. If no KIND is given, lists all known metadata set ZONE KIND [VALUE...] Set zone metadata, replacing all existing records of KIND, optionally providing a value. An omitted value clears the metadata Networks Commands: network list List all defined networks with their chosen views network set NET [VIEW] Set the view for a network, or delete if no view argument. Zone Record Commands: rrset add ZONE NAME TYPE [TTL] "CONTENT" ["CONTENT"...] Add one or more records to the given rrset in ZONE rrset add-comment ZONE NAME TYPE COMMENT [ACCOUNT] Add a comment rrset delete ZONE NAME TYPE Delete named rrset from ZONE rrset hash ZONE NAME Calculate the NSEC3 hash for NAME in ZONE rrset list-comments ZONE List comments for a zone rrset replace ZONE NAME TYPE [TTL] "CONTENT" ["CONTENT"...] Replace named rrset from ZONE TSIG Key Commands: tsigkey activate ZONE NAME {primary|secondary|producer|consumer} Enable TSIG authenticated AXFR using the key NAME for ZONE tsigkey deactivate ZONE NAME {primary|secondary|producer|consumer} Disable TSIG authenticated AXFR using the key NAME for ZONE tsigkey delete NAME Delete TSIG key (warning: will not unmap key!) tsigkey generate NAME ALGORITHM Generate new TSIG key. ALGORITHM is one of hmac-{md5,sha1,sha224,sha256,sha384,sha512} tsigkey import NAME ALGORITHM KEY Import TSIG key tsigkey list List all TSIG keys Views Commands: view add-zone VIEW ZONE..VARIANT Add a zone variant to a view view del-zone VIEW ZONE..VARIANT Remove a zone variant from a view view list VIEW List all zones within VIEW view list-all List all view names Zone Commands: zone check ZONE Check a zone for correctness zone check-all [exit-on-error] Check all zones for correctness. Use exit-on-error to exit immediately upon finding the first error in any zone zone clear ZONE Clear all records of a zone, but keep everything else zone copy ZONE NEW-ZONE Create zone NEW-ZONE with the contents of ZONE zone create ZONE [NSNAME] Create empty zone ZONE zone delete ZONE Delete zone ZONE zone edit ZONE Edit zone contents using $EDITOR zone increase-serial ZONE Increases the SOA-serial by 1. Uses SOA-EDIT zone list ZONE List zone contents zone list-all [primary|secondary|native|producer|consumer] List all active zone names. Use --verbose (-v) to include disabled or empty zones zone load ZONE FILENAME [ZONE FILENAME]... Load ZONE from FILENAME, possibly creating zone or atomically replacing contents; --verbose or -v will also include the keys for disabled or empty zones zone set-account ZONE ACCOUNT Change the account (owner) of ZONE to ACCOUNT zone set-kind ZONE KIND Change the kind of ZONE to KIND (primary, secondary, native, producer, or consumer) zone set-option ZONE [producer|consumer] [coo|unique|group] VALUE [VALUE...] Set or remove an option for ZONE. Providing an empty value removes the option zone set-options-json ZONE JSONFILE Change the options of ZONE to JSONFILE zone show ZONE Show various details about a zone, including DNSSEC keys zone zonemd-verify-file ZONE FILENAME Validate ZONEMD for ZONE Secondary Zone Commands: zone change-primary ZONE PRIMARY_IP [PRIMARY_IP...] Change secondary zone ZONE primary IP address(es) to PRIMARY_IP zone create-secondary ZONE PRIMARY_IP [PRIMARY_IP...] Create secondary zone ZONE with primary IP address(es) PRIMARY_IP DNSSEC Commands: zone dnssec-disable ZONE Deactivate all keys and unset PRESIGNED in ZONE zone export-dnskey ZONE KEY_ID Export the public DNSKEY with the given ID to stdout zone export-ds ZONE Export all KSK DS records for ZONE to stdout zone list-keys [ZONE] List DNSSEC keys for ZONE. When ZONE is unset, display keys for all active zones zone rectify ZONE [ZONE...] Fix up DNSSEC fields (order, auth) zone rectify-all [quiet] Rectify all zones. Optionally quiet output with errors only zone secure ZONE [ZONE...] Add DNSSEC to zone ZONE zone secure-all [increase-serial] Secure all zones without keys zone set-nsec3 ZONE ['PARAMS' [narrow]] Enable NSEC3 with PARAMS (default: '1 0 0 -'). Optionally narrow zone set-presigned ZONE Use presigned RRSIGs from storage zone set-publish-cdnskey ZONE [delete] Enable sending CDNSKEY responses for ZONE. Add 'delete' to publish a CDNSKEY with a DNSSEC delete algorithm zone set-publish-cds ZONE [DIGESTALGOS] Enable sending CDS responses for ZONE, using DIGESTALGOS as signature algorithms; DIGESTALGOS should be a comma-separated list of numbers, (default: '2') zone set-signaling ZONE Configure zone for RFC 9615 DNSSEC bootstrapping (zone name must begin with _signal.) zone unset-nsec3 ZONE Switch ZONE back to NSEC zone unset-presigned ZONE Stop using presigned RRSIGs on ZONE zone unset-publish-cdnskey ZONE Disable sending CDNSKEY responses for ZONE zone unset-publish-cds ZONE Disable sending CDS responses for ZONE Zone Key Commands: zone activate-key ZONE KEY_ID Activate the key with key id KEY_ID in ZONE zone add-key ZONE [zsk|ksk] [BITS] [active|inactive] [published|unpublished] [rsasha1|rsasha1-nsec3-sha1|rsasha256|rsasha512|ecdsa256|ecdsa384|ed25519|ed448] Add a ZSK or KSK to zone with specific algorithm and size in bits. If zsk or ksk is omitted, defaults to zsk zone deactivate-key ZONE KEY_ID Deactivate the key with key id KEY_ID in ZONE zone export-key ZONE KEY_ID Export the private key with the given ID to stdout zone export-key-pem ZONE KEY_ID Export the private key with the given ID to stdout in PEM format zone generate-key {zsk|ksk} [ALGORITHM] [BITS] Generate a ZSK or KSK to stdout with specified ALGORITHM and BITS zone import-key ZONE FILE [active|inactive] [ksk|zsk] [published|unpublished] Import from a private key file, ZSK or KSK; defaults to KSK, active and published zone import-key-pem ZONE FILE ALGORITHM [ksk|zsk]} Import a private key from a PEM file zone publish-key ZONE KEY_ID Publish the zone key with key id KEY_ID in ZONE zone remove-key ZONE KEY_ID Remove key with KEY_ID from ZONE zone unpublish-key ZONE KEY_ID Unpublish the zone key with key id KEY_ID in ZONE Other/Miscellaneous Commands: b2b-migrate OLD NEW Move all data from one backend to another backend-cmd BACKEND CMD [CMD...] Perform one or more backend commands backend-lookup BACKEND NAME [[TYPE] CLIENT_IP_SUBNET] Perform a backend lookup of NAME, TYPE (defaulting to ANY) and CLIENT_IP_SUBNET bench-db [FILENAME] Benchmark database backend with queries, one zone per line create-bind-db FILENAME Create DNSSEC db for BIND backend (bind-dnssec-db) hash-password [WORK FACTOR] Ask for a plaintext password or API key and output a salted and hashed version ipdecrypt IP_ADDRESS PASSPHRASE_OR_KEY [key] Decrypt IP address using passphrase or base64 key ipencrypt IP_ADDRESS PASSPHRASE_OR_KEY [key] Encrypt IP address using passphrase or base64 key list-algorithms [with-backend] List all DNSSEC algorithms supported, optionally also listing the cryptographic library used lmdb-get-backend-version Get schema version supported by backend raw-lua-from-content TYPE CONTENT Display record contents in a form suitable for dnsdist's `SpoofRawAction` test-schema ZONE Test DB schema - will create ZONE Common options: -h [ --help ] produce help message --version show version -v [ --verbose ] be verbose -f [ --force ] force an action -q [ --quiet ] be quiet -s [ --sort ] sort output when applicable --config-name arg virtual configuration name --config-dir arg (=/etc) location of pdns.conf --no-colors do not use colors in output --commands arg