pdnsutil

Synopsis

pdnsutil [OPTION]… COMMAND

Description

pdnsutil (formerly pdnssec) is a powerful command that is the operator-friendly gateway into DNSSEC and zone management for PowerDNS. Behind the scenes, pdnsutil manipulates a PowerDNS backend database, which also means that for many databases, pdnsutil can be run remotely, and can configure key material on different servers.

Options

-h, --help Show summary of options
-v, --verbose Be more verbose.
--force Force an action
--config-name <NAME>
 Virtual configuration name
--config-dir <DIR>
 Location of pdns.conf. Default is /etc/powerdns.

COMMANDS

There are many available commands, this section splits them up into their respective uses

ZONE MANIPULATION COMMANDS

add-record ZONE NAME TYPE [TTL] CONTENT
Add one or more records of NAME and TYPE to ZONE with CONTENT and optional TTL. If TTL is not set, default will be used.
add-autoprimary IP NAMESERVER [ACCOUNT]
Add a autoprimary entry into the backend. This enables receiving zone updates from other servers.
remove-autoprimary IP NAMESERVER
Remove an autoprimary from backend. Not supported by BIND backend.
list-autoprimaries
List all autoprimaries.
create-zone ZONE
Create an empty zone named ZONE.
create-secondary-zone ZONE PRIMARY [PRIMARY]…
Create a new secondary zone ZONE with primaries PRIMARY. All PRIMARYs need to to be space-separated IP addresses with an optional port.
change-secondary-zone-primary ZONE PRIMARY [PRIMARY]…
Change the primaries for secondary zone ZONE to new primaries PRIMARY. All PRIMARYs need to to be space-separated IP addresses with an optional port.
check-all-zones
Check all zones for correctness.
check-zone ZONE
Check zone ZONE for correctness.
clear-zone ZONE
Clear the records in zone ZONE, but leave actual zone and settings unchanged
delete-rrset ZONE NAME TYPE
Delete named RRSET from zone.
delete-zone ZONE
Delete the zone named ZONE.
edit-zone ZONE
Opens ZONE in zonefile format (regardless of backend it was loaded from) in the editor set in the environment variable EDITOR. if EDITOR is empty, pdnsutil falls back to using editor.
get-meta ZONE [ATTRIBUTE]…
Get zone metadata. If no ATTRIBUTE given, lists all known.
hash-password [WORK-FACTOR]
This convenience command asks for a password and returns a hashed and salted version, for use as a webserver password or api key. An optional scrypt work factor can be specified, in power of two, otherwise it defaults to 1024.
hash-zone-record ZONE RNAME
This convenience command hashes the name RNAME according to the NSEC3 settings of ZONE. Refuses to hash for zones with no NSEC3 settings.
increase-serial ZONE
Increases the SOA-serial by 1. Uses SOA-EDIT.
list-keys [ZONE]
List DNSSEC information for all keys or for ZONE. –verbose or -v will also include the keys for disabled or empty zones.
list-all-zones
List all active zone names. –verbose or -v will also include disabled or empty zones.
list-member-zones CATALOG
List all members of catalog zone CATALOG
list-zone ZONE
Show all records for ZONE.
load-zone ZONE FILE
Load records for ZONE from FILE. If ZONE already exists, all records are overwritten, this operation is atomic. If ZONE doesn’t exist, it is created.
rectify-zone ZONE
Calculates the ‘ordername’ and ‘auth’ fields for a zone called ZONE so they comply with DNSSEC settings. Can be used to fix up migrated data. Can always safely be run, it does no harm.
rectify-all-zones
Calculates the ‘ordername’ and ‘auth’ fields for all zones so they comply with DNSSEC settings. Can be used to fix up migrated data. Can always safely be run, it does no harm.
replace-rrset ZONE NAME TYPE [TTL] CONTENT [CONTENT…]
Replace existing NAME in zone ZONE with a new set.
secure-zone ZONE
Configures a zone called ZONE with reasonable DNSSEC settings. You should manually run ‘pdnsutil rectify-zone’ afterwards.
secure-all-zones [increase-serial]
Configures all zones that are not currently signed with reasonable DNSSEC settings. Setting increase-serial will increase the serial of those zones too. You should manually run ‘pdnsutil rectify-all-zones’ afterwards.
set-kind ZONE KIND
Change the kind of ZONE to KIND (primary, secondary, native, producer, consumer).
set-options-json ZONE JSON
Change the options of ZONE to JSON
set-option ZONE [producer*|*consumer] [coo*|*unique*|*group] VALUE [VALUE …]
Set or remove an option for ZONE. Providing an empty value removes an option.
set-catalog ZONE CATALOG
Change the catalog of ZONE to CATALOG. Setting CATALOG to an empty “” removes ZONE from the catalog it is in.
set-account ZONE ACCOUNT
Change the account (owner) of ZONE to ACCOUNT.
add-meta ZONE ATTRIBUTE VALUE [VALUE]…
Append VALUE to the existing ATTRIBUTE metadata for ZONE. Will return an error if ATTRIBUTE does not support multiple values, use set-meta for these values.
set-meta ZONE ATTRIBUTE [VALUE]…
Set zonemetadata ATTRIBUTE for ZONE to VALUE. An empty value clears it.
set-presigned ZONE
Switches ZONE to presigned operation, utilizing in-zone RRSIGs.
show-zone ZONE
Shows all DNSSEC related settings of a zone called ZONE.
test-schema ZONE
Test database schema, this creates the zone ZONE
unset-presigned ZONE
Disables presigned operation for ZONE.
raw-lua-from-content TYPE CONTENT
Display record contents in a form suitable for dnsdist’s SpoofRawAction.
zonemd-verify-file ZONE FILE
Validate ZONEMD for ZONE read from FILE.

DEBUGGING TOOLS

backend-cmd BACKEND CMD [CMD…]
Send a text command to a backend for execution. GSQL backends will take SQL commands, other backends may take different things. Be careful!
bench-db [FILE]
Perform a benchmark of the backend-database. FILE can be a file with a list, one per line, of zone names to use for this. If FILE is not specified, powerdns.com is used.

OTHER TOOLS

b2b-migrate OLD NEW
Migrate data from one backend to another. Needs launch=OLD,NEW in the configuration.
ipencrypt IP-ADDRESS password
Encrypt an IP address according to the ‘ipcipher’ standard
ipdecrypt IP-ADDRESS password
Decrypt an IP address according to the ‘ipcipher’ standard

See also

pdns_server (1), pdns_control (1)