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PDNS_CONTROL(8)						       PDNS_CONTROL(8)

NAME
       pdns_control - Control the PowerDNS nameserver

SYNOPSIS
       pdns_control [options] command

DESCRIPTION
       pdns_control is used to send commands to a running PowerDNS nameserver.

OPTIONS
       A summary of options is included below.

       --help
	      Show summary of options.

       --chroot=...
	      Where PowerDNS is chrooted

       --config-dir=...
	      Location of configuration directory (pdns.conf)

       --config-name=...
	      Name  of	this  virtual  configuration  - will rename the binary
	      image

       --remote-address=...
	      Remote address to query

       --remote-port=...
	      Remote port to query

       --secret=...
	      Secret needed to connect to remote PowerDNS

       --socket-dir=...
	      Where the controlsocket will live

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 destina‐
	      tion, 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 immedi‐
	      ately.

       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.

SEE ALSO
       pdns_server(8)

PowerDNS			 December 2002		       PDNS_CONTROL(8)

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