PDNS_CONTROL(8)
NAME
pdns_control - Control the pDNS nameserver
SYNOPSIS
pdns_control command
DESCRIPTION
pdns_control is used to send commands to a running pDNS nameserver.
COMMANDS
- ccounts
- Show the content of the cache
- notify <domain>
- Adds a domain to the notification list, causing PDNS to send out notifications to the nameservers of a domain. Can be used if a slave missed previous notifications or is generally hard of hearing.
- notify-host <domain> <host>
- Same as above but with operator specified IP address as destination, to be used if you know better than PowerDNS.
- cycle Restart the nameserver so it reloads its configuration.
- ping Check if the server is alive.
- purge [<record>]
- Purge entries from the packet cache. If the record name ends with a dollar ($) all entries that end with that name are removed. If no record is specified the entire cache is purged.
- rediscover
- Instructs backends that new domains may have appeared in the database, or, in the case of the Bind backend, in named.conf.
- retrieve <domain>
- Retrieve a slave domain from its master. Done nearly immediatly.
- set <variable> <value>
- Set the configuration parameter <variable> to <value>. Currently only the query-logging can be set.
- show <variable>
- Show a single statistic, as present in the output of the list command.
- quit Tell a running pdns_server to quit.
- status Show usage statistics.
- uptime Show the uptime of the running server.
- version
- Print the version of the running pdns daemon.
FILES
- <socket>
- Control socket used to communicate with pdns_server.