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PDNS_CONTROL(1) PowerDNS Authoritative Server PDNS_CONTROL(1) NAME pdns_control - Control the PowerDNS nameserver SYNOPSIS pdns_control [OPTION]... COMMAND DESCRIPTION pdns_control is used to send commands to a running PowerDNS nameserver. OPTIONS --help Show summary of options. --chroot=<DIR> Directory where PowerDNS is chrooted. --config-dir=<DIR> Location of configuration directory (pdns.conf). --config-name=<NAME> Name of this virtual configuration - will rename the binary image. --remote-address=<ADDRESS> Remote address to query. --remote-port=<PORT> Remote port to query. --secret=<SECRET> Secret needed to connect to remote PowerDNS. --socket-dir=<DIR> Where the controlsocket lives. COMMANDS bind-add-zone ZONE FILENAME When using the BIND backend, add a zone. This zone is added in-memory and served immediately. Note that this does not add the zone to the bind-config file. FILENAME must be an absolute path. bind-domain-extended-status [ZONE...] Output an extended status of all zones, containing much more information than the simple zone status, like the number of records currently loaded, whether pdns is primary or secondary for the zone, the list of primaries, various timers, etc. Optionally, append ZONEs to get the status of spe- cific zones. bind-domain-status [ZONE...] When using the BIND backend, list status of all zones. Optionally, append ZONEs to get the status of specific zones. bind-list-rejects When using the BIND backend, get a list of all rejected zones. bind-reload-now ZONE [ZONE...] When using the BIND backend, immediately reload ZONE from disk. ccounts Show the content of the cache. current-config [diff] Show the currently running configuration. The output has the same format as pdns_server --config. With the diff option, only modified options are in- cluded in the output. cycle Restart the nameserver so it reloads its configuration. Only works when the server is running in guardian mode. flush Flush all backend data to stable storage. There is usually no such data during regular operation, unless the LMDB backend is used with lmdb-write-notification-update set to no. list Dump all statistics and their values in a comma separated list, equivalent to show *. list-zones [primary,secondary,native] Show a list of zones, optionally filter on the type of zones to show. notify ZONE Adds ZONE to the notification list, causing PowerDNS to send out notifica- tions to the nameservers of a zone. Can be used if a secondary missed pre- vious notifications or is generally hard of hearing. Use * to notify for all zones. (Note that you may need to escape the * sign in your shell.) notify-host ZONE ADDRESS Same as above but with operator specified IP ADDRESS as destination, to be used if you know better than PowerDNS. ping, rping Check if the server is still alive. Will return 'PONG' when it is. ping works when running inside a guardian, whereas rping works when running without a guardian. purge [RECORD] Purge entries from the cache. If RECORD ends with a dollar ($) all entries that end with that name are removed. If no record is specified the entire cache is purged. qtypes Get a count of queries per qtype on standard output. quit or stop Tell a running pdns_server to quit. rediscover Instructs backends that new zones may have appeared in the database, or, in the case of the BIND backend, in named.conf. reload Instruct the server to reload all its zones, this will not add new zones. remotes Get the top number of remote addresses (clients). respsizes Get a histogram of the response sizes. retrieve ZONE [IP] Retrieve secondary ZONE from its primary. Done nearly immediately. If IP is specified, then retrieval is forced from the specified IP. Port may be specified in AFI specific manner. set VARIABLE VALUE Set the configuration parameter VARIABLE to VALUE. Currently only the query-logging can be set. show STATISTIC Show a single statistic, as present in the output of the list command. show STATISTIC-PREFIX* Show all statistics which names start with the supplied STATISTIC-PREFIX, as a comma-separated list. Only one (ending) wildcard is allowed. status Show usage statistics. This only works if the server is running in guardian mode. token-login MODULE SLOT PIN Log on to a PKCS#11 slot. You only need to login once per slot, even if you have multiple keys on single slot. Only available if PowerDNS was compiled with PKCS#11 support. uptime Show the uptime of the running server. version Print the version of the running pdns daemon. SEE ALSO pdns_server (1), pdnsutil (1) AUTHOR PowerDNS.COM BV COPYRIGHT PowerDNS.COM BV Jun 29, 2026 PDNS_CONTROL(1)
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