dnst 0.2.0-alpha2

dnst is a DNS administration toolbox. It offers DNS and DNSSEC related functions like key generation, zone signing, printing NSEC3 hashed domain names, and sending UPDATE or NOTIFY messages to your name servers. More is coming soon.

It depends on OpenSSL for its cryptography related functions.

dnst supports two modes of operation:

• dnst mode: the default.

• ldns emulation mode: activated by invoking dnst using the name of a supported ldns example, e.g. ldns-keygen.

dnst currently offers drop-in replacement of the following ldns examples:

• key2ds

• keygen

• nsec3hash

• signzone

• notify

• update

In ldns emulation mode, the supported ldns examples are very closely emulated by dnst, though there are some exceptions. Differences are noted in the relevant man pages of individual commands.