2014-06-19
By Thomas tech

nsd is bloody awesome

So it took a few months, but I finally got around to converting my DNS slave. It took about an hour to play around with NSD and figure out how to make it read from a bind master. And the actual cutover was less than five minutes.

Probably the part I like best is how clean the config file is. Take a look at this:

server:
        ip-address: 0.0.0.0
        do-ip4: yes
        do-ip6: no
        logfile: "/var/log/nsd.log"

remote-control:
        control-enable: yes

key:
        name: MYKEY
        algorithm: hmac-md5
        secret: "my+secret+in+base64="

zone:
        name: example.org
        zonefile: /var/db/nsd/example.org
        request-xfr: 1.2.3.4 MYKEY

It's insane how easy this was. Sometime soon I will update my master and then I'll be done with bind for good.

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