rndc protocol

Andrew Latham lathama at gmail.com
Fri Oct 5 14:45:47 UTC 2012


On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Matthew Horsfall (alh)
<mhorsfall at dyn.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> 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.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -- Matthew Horsfall (alh)

A quick search shows that the source is easily read. For example
http://stuff.mit.edu/afs/sipb/machine/charon3/src/bind-9.6-ESV-R5-P1/bin/rndc/rndc.c
uses isc_socket and checks the underlying protocols during connection.
 ie...  v6 or v4, UDP or TCP...


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