rndc protocol

Carsten Strotmann cas at strotmann.de
Fri Oct 5 09:38:25 UTC 2012


Hello Matthew,

"Matthew Horsfall (alh)" <mhorsfall at dyn.com> writes:


> I was curious if the underlying protocol used by the rndc command was
> well documented and if writing clients against it (rather than using
> the rndc utility) was advisable or not.

I'm not aware of extra documentation, but I know developers that have
successfully read the BIND source code and were able to build their own
tools that use the rndc channel. And the protocol seems to be pretty
stable.

-- Carsten



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