X-Git-Url: http://mj.ucw.cz/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=24dfd7f90c8ba6af74fb335e96ea388b62b90ab4;hb=32f3ed3f7435caea042524bb44ce8dc5741c4524;hp=6ddfb09bbc6a31cac7b91db147c4b7859a1bff8d;hpb=b09544a247701516325cd805bd3cc8d28a058fec;p=nsc-5.git diff --git a/README b/README index 6ddfb09..24dfd7f 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,29 +1,29 @@ - Domain Name Server Configuration Utilities -- NSC 3.1 + Domain Name Server Configuration Utilities -- NSC 4.0 - (c) 1997--2008 Martin Mares + (c) 1997--2019 Martin Mares ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -WARNING: NSC has undergone significant changes between versions 2.3 and 2.99b. -See NEWS for the summary of changes. Most importantly, the configuration files are -NOT compatible with the old releases. +WARNING: There were several incompatible changes between versions 3.1 and 4.0. + See NEWS for the summary of changes. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ NSC is a set of shell and M4 scripts for easy maintenance of DNS zone files -and name server daemon configuration (currently available only for BIND 8.X, +and name server daemon configuration (currently available only for BIND 8.x/9.x, but easily portable for other daemons). It has been designed to make administration of a DNS server a piece of cake (unlike other utilities which resemble more an English pudding :-) ), which includes automatic generation of reverse records for all your hosts, handling of classless reverse delegations and support for IPv6 -(AAAA and PTR in in6.arpa, not A6 and DNAME which seem to be dying out). +(AAAA and PTR in ip6.arpa, not A6 and DNAME which seem to be dying out). - NSC requires GNU m4 and a POSIX-compatible shell, some of the extra utilities -require Perl 5. I've tested everything on Linux (Debian Woody), but the whole -package should run on other unices as well. + NSC requires GNU m4, a POSIX-compatible shell and the `md5sum' utility (which +is present for examile in GNU coreutils). Some of the extra utilities require +Perl 5. I've tested everything on Linux (Debian Squeeze), but the whole package +should run on other unices as well. The whole package can be used and distributed according to the terms of the GNU General Public License. See file COPYING in any of the GNU utility archives @@ -37,8 +37,8 @@ GNU General Public License. See file COPYING in any of the GNU utility archives - Create a directory where all NSC files will reside (e.g., /etc/named) and copy everything from the NSC distribution here. - - Symlink /etc/bind/named.conf (or /etc/named.conf or where the config file - of your installation of BIND resides) to /etc/named/named.conf + - Add an include directive to your BIND configuration file (usually + /etc/bind/named.conf), referring to /etc/named/named.conf. - Change directory to /etc/named @@ -48,6 +48,9 @@ GNU General Public License. See file COPYING in any of the GNU utility archives - Create cf/ for all domains (again, you can easily follow the example domains). + - If you are using BIND 9.x, make the `bak' directory writable + by the bind user. + - Run bin/nsconfig (Makefile and named.conf will be generated). - Run make. @@ -55,7 +58,9 @@ GNU General Public License. See file COPYING in any of the GNU utility archives - Enjoy your new DNS setup. If everything goes OK, be happy. Else write a bug report :-) - - Every time you modify the domain files + - Every time you modify the domain files, re-run make. If you have + added or removed domains or changed options which affect named.conf, + re-run bin/nsconfig before make. An interesting companion to this package is the DNS Sleuth -- a DNS zone consistency checker. It's a simple utility written in Perl with help of the @@ -78,6 +83,7 @@ files and subdirectories: m4/ - M4 scripts (used by the commands) zone/ - primary zone files bak/ - backups of zones we serve as a secondary NS for + hash/ - hashes of zone files used for detection of changes ver/ - version files where NSC remembers version numbers of the primary zones @@ -139,6 +145,13 @@ REVERSE(network, primary-files...) You can also use the REV macro explicitly, which can be handy for example in SECONDARY declarations. +ROOTHINT() + Insert a definition of hints for reaching root servers into named.conf. + This is necessary if you want your DNS server to resolve foreign + domains; otherwise, it will only give out authoritative answers + for locally defined zones and forward queries. The location of the + file with the hints can be set by the ROOTCACHE directive (see below). + FORWARDED(zone, ip...) Define a forwarding zone. All queries are forwarded to the specified name servers. @@ -203,7 +216,7 @@ H(host) ADDR(addr...) Specify addresses for the current host. In the normal mode, it - creates A records, in the reverse mode, PTR records. + creates A/AAAA records, in the reverse mode, PTR records. H(host, addr...) A shortcut for H(host) ADDR(addr...) -- in many cases everything @@ -315,13 +328,9 @@ semicolons, text outside macros is ignored. The following variables are available: NAMED_RESTART_CMD Shell command for restarting the name server daemon - (default: ndc restart) + (default: rndc reload) -ROOT Root directory of the whole package (default: /etc/named) CFDIR Directory with config files (default: cf) -ZONEDIR Directory with zone files (default: zone) -BAKDIR Directory with backup files (default: bak) -VERSDIR Directory with version files (default: var) ROOTCACHE File with the cache of root name servers REFRESH SOA record parameters @@ -343,7 +352,7 @@ DAYS(n) Convert days to seconds The Makefile generated by NSC offers the following targets: all (default) - update all zone files and reload the daemon - clean - clean all generated zone files and backups + clean - clean all generated zone files, backups, and hashes clobber - clean + delete Makefile and named.conf (wise to do after major reconfigurations) distclean - clobber + delete all version files (use only @@ -429,7 +438,17 @@ CAVEAT: The backward-compatible IPv6 address syntax with ":v.w.x.y" at the end is not supported. All other syntaxes and quirks hopefully are. -8. Interaction with M4 +8. DNSSEC support +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +FIXME: Write real docs! + +bin/key-gen example.com +bin/key-gen -f KSK example.com +bin/key-update +keys/resign-stamp + + +9. Interaction with M4 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ All config files are fully-fledged M4 scripts, so you can use any M4 features you need, the most helpful one being definition of your own macros by @@ -447,7 +466,7 @@ However, there is a couple of things you need to care about: for the NSC itself and unless documented, messing with them can bring surprising results. If you need to use such a name in your zone file (maybe you like to shout in your host names :-) ), - quote it with ` and '. + quote it like `this'. o Don't use commas, quotes nor parentheses in your record names.