yadifad - an authoritative Internet domain name server.

NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION OPTIONS SIGNALS CONFIGURATION FILES SEE ALSO REQUIREMENTS CHANGES VERSION MAILING LISTS LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT AUTHORS

NAME

YADIFAD − an authoritative Internet domain name server.

SYNOPSIS

yadifad [−−config|−c configfile] [−−daemon|−d] [−u uid] [−g gid] [−V] [−h]

DESCRIPTION

yadifad is a Domain Name System (DNS) server, part of the YADIFA distribution from EURid vzw/asbl. The latest version of YADIFA can be found on:

http://www.yadifa.eu/download

yadifad reads the zone files from yadifad.conf, and starts up an authoritative name server. It listens to UDP and TCP DNS queries and returns answers from its own database.

yadifad knows the main DNS protocols:

	*		AXFR
	*		IXFR
	*		DNSSEC
	*		DNS Update
	*		NOTIFY

yadifad works only with 1 CLASS:

yadifad supports following TYPES:

Other tyes and pseudo resource records:

OPTIONS

[−−config|−c configfile]

Another config file will be used.

[−−daemon|−d]

Starts the name server in daemon mode (default)

[−−uid|−u uid]

Starts the name server with the given uid.

[−−gid|−g gid]

Starts the name server with the given gid.

[−V]

Shows version information.

[−−help|−h]

Shows a help text

SIGNALS

	SIGHUP		reloads the zone and key sections in the configuration file and reloads the zone file(s) with incremented serial number, and close all log files and reopens them.
	SIGINT		shutdowns the server

SIGTERM

(see SIGINT)

CONFIGURATION

The yadifad.conf itself is mandatory, but can be empty. No options is needed for using yadifad DNS name server.

The yadifad configuration options can be found in yadifad.conf.5 man page. A complete description is provided in the YADIFA 2.6.5 Reference Manual (YM26).