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+.\" Copyright (C) 2000, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2013-2016, 2018, 2019 Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. ("ISC")
+.\"
+.\" This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+.\" License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+.\" file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+.\"
+.hy 0
+.ad l
+'\" t
+.\" Title: rndc.conf
+.\" Author:
+.\" Generator: DocBook XSL Stylesheets v1.78.1 <http://docbook.sf.net/>
+.\" Date: 2013-03-14
+.\" Manual: BIND9
+.\" Source: ISC
+.\" Language: English
+.\"
+.TH "RNDC\&.CONF" "5" "2013\-03\-14" "ISC" "BIND9"
+.\" -----------------------------------------------------------------
+.\" * Define some portability stuff
+.\" -----------------------------------------------------------------
+.\" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+.\" http://bugs.debian.org/507673
+.\" http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2009-02/msg00013.html
+.\" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+.ie \n(.g .ds Aq \(aq
+.el .ds Aq '
+.\" -----------------------------------------------------------------
+.\" * set default formatting
+.\" -----------------------------------------------------------------
+.\" disable hyphenation
+.nh
+.\" disable justification (adjust text to left margin only)
+.ad l
+.\" -----------------------------------------------------------------
+.\" * MAIN CONTENT STARTS HERE *
+.\" -----------------------------------------------------------------
+.SH "NAME"
+rndc.conf \- rndc configuration file
+.SH "SYNOPSIS"
+.HP \w'\fBrndc\&.conf\fR\ 'u
+\fBrndc\&.conf\fR
+.SH "DESCRIPTION"
+.PP
+rndc\&.conf
+is the configuration file for
+\fBrndc\fR, the BIND 9 name server control utility\&. This file has a similar structure and syntax to
+named\&.conf\&. Statements are enclosed in braces and terminated with a semi\-colon\&. Clauses in the statements are also semi\-colon terminated\&. The usual comment styles are supported:
+.PP
+C style: /* */
+.PP
+C++ style: // to end of line
+.PP
+Unix style: # to end of line
+.PP
+rndc\&.conf
+is much simpler than
+named\&.conf\&. The file uses three statements: an options statement, a server statement and a key statement\&.
+.PP
+The
+\fBoptions\fR
+statement contains five clauses\&. The
+\fBdefault\-server\fR
+clause is followed by the name or address of a name server\&. This host will be used when no name server is given as an argument to
+\fBrndc\fR\&. The
+\fBdefault\-key\fR
+clause is followed by the name of a key which is identified by a
+\fBkey\fR
+statement\&. If no
+\fBkeyid\fR
+is provided on the rndc command line, and no
+\fBkey\fR
+clause is found in a matching
+\fBserver\fR
+statement, this default key will be used to authenticate the server\*(Aqs commands and responses\&. The
+\fBdefault\-port\fR
+clause is followed by the port to connect to on the remote name server\&. If no
+\fBport\fR
+option is provided on the rndc command line, and no
+\fBport\fR
+clause is found in a matching
+\fBserver\fR
+statement, this default port will be used to connect\&. The
+\fBdefault\-source\-address\fR
+and
+\fBdefault\-source\-address\-v6\fR
+clauses which can be used to set the IPv4 and IPv6 source addresses respectively\&.
+.PP
+After the
+\fBserver\fR
+keyword, the server statement includes a string which is the hostname or address for a name server\&. The statement has three possible clauses:
+\fBkey\fR,
+\fBport\fR
+and
+\fBaddresses\fR\&. The key name must match the name of a key statement in the file\&. The port number specifies the port to connect to\&. If an
+\fBaddresses\fR
+clause is supplied these addresses will be used instead of the server name\&. Each address can take an optional port\&. If an
+\fBsource\-address\fR
+or
+\fBsource\-address\-v6\fR
+of supplied then these will be used to specify the IPv4 and IPv6 source addresses respectively\&.
+.PP
+The
+\fBkey\fR
+statement begins with an identifying string, the name of the key\&. The statement has two clauses\&.
+\fBalgorithm\fR
+identifies the authentication algorithm for
+\fBrndc\fR
+to use; currently only HMAC\-MD5 (for compatibility), HMAC\-SHA1, HMAC\-SHA224, HMAC\-SHA256 (default), HMAC\-SHA384 and HMAC\-SHA512 are supported\&. This is followed by a secret clause which contains the base\-64 encoding of the algorithm\*(Aqs authentication key\&. The base\-64 string is enclosed in double quotes\&.
+.PP
+There are two common ways to generate the base\-64 string for the secret\&. The BIND 9 program
+\fBrndc\-confgen\fR
+can be used to generate a random key, or the
+\fBmmencode\fR
+program, also known as
+\fBmimencode\fR, can be used to generate a base\-64 string from known input\&.
+\fBmmencode\fR
+does not ship with BIND 9 but is available on many systems\&. See the EXAMPLE section for sample command lines for each\&.
+.SH "EXAMPLE"
+.PP
+.if n \{\
+.RS 4
+.\}
+.nf
+ options {
+ default\-server localhost;
+ default\-key samplekey;
+ };
+.fi
+.if n \{\
+.RE
+.\}
+.PP
+.if n \{\
+.RS 4
+.\}
+.nf
+ server localhost {
+ key samplekey;
+ };
+.fi
+.if n \{\
+.RE
+.\}
+.PP
+.if n \{\
+.RS 4
+.\}
+.nf
+ server testserver {
+ key testkey;
+ addresses { localhost port 5353; };
+ };
+.fi
+.if n \{\
+.RE
+.\}
+.PP
+.if n \{\
+.RS 4
+.\}
+.nf
+ key samplekey {
+ algorithm hmac\-sha256;
+ secret "6FMfj43Osz4lyb24OIe2iGEz9lf1llJO+lz";
+ };
+.fi
+.if n \{\
+.RE
+.\}
+.PP
+.if n \{\
+.RS 4
+.\}
+.nf
+ key testkey {
+ algorithm hmac\-sha256;
+ secret "R3HI8P6BKw9ZwXwN3VZKuQ==";
+ };
+.fi
+.if n \{\
+.RE
+.\}
+.PP
+In the above example,
+\fBrndc\fR
+will by default use the server at localhost (127\&.0\&.0\&.1) and the key called samplekey\&. Commands to the localhost server will use the samplekey key, which must also be defined in the server\*(Aqs configuration file with the same name and secret\&. The key statement indicates that samplekey uses the HMAC\-SHA256 algorithm and its secret clause contains the base\-64 encoding of the HMAC\-SHA256 secret enclosed in double quotes\&.
+.PP
+If
+\fBrndc \-s testserver\fR
+is used then
+\fBrndc\fR
+will connect to server on localhost port 5353 using the key testkey\&.
+.PP
+To generate a random secret with
+\fBrndc\-confgen\fR:
+.PP
+\fBrndc\-confgen\fR
+.PP
+A complete
+rndc\&.conf
+file, including the randomly generated key, will be written to the standard output\&. Commented\-out
+\fBkey\fR
+and
+\fBcontrols\fR
+statements for
+named\&.conf
+are also printed\&.
+.PP
+To generate a base\-64 secret with
+\fBmmencode\fR:
+.PP
+\fBecho "known plaintext for a secret" | mmencode\fR
+.SH "NAME SERVER CONFIGURATION"
+.PP
+The name server must be configured to accept rndc connections and to recognize the key specified in the
+rndc\&.conf
+file, using the controls statement in
+named\&.conf\&. See the sections on the
+\fBcontrols\fR
+statement in the BIND 9 Administrator Reference Manual for details\&.
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.PP
+\fBrndc\fR(8),
+\fBrndc-confgen\fR(8),
+\fBmmencode\fR(1),
+BIND 9 Administrator Reference Manual\&.
+.SH "AUTHOR"
+.PP
+\fBInternet Systems Consortium, Inc\&.\fR
+.SH "COPYRIGHT"
+.br
+Copyright \(co 2000, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2013-2016, 2018, 2019 Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. ("ISC")
+.br