knotd – Knot DNS server daemon¶
Synopsis¶
knotd [config_option] [options]
Description¶
Knot DNS is a high-performance authoritative DNS server. The knotd program is the DNS server daemon.
Config options¶
- -c, --config file
Use a textual configuration file (default is
@config_dir@/knot.conf).- -C, --confdb directory
Use a binary configuration database directory (default is
@storage_dir@/confdb). The default configuration database, if exists, has a preference to the default configuration file.
Options¶
- -m, --max-conf-size MiB
Set maximum size of the configuration database (default is @conf_mapsize@ MiB, maximum 10000 MiB).
- -s, --socket path
Use a remote control UNIX socket path (default is
@run_dir@/knot.sock).- -d, --daemonize [directory]
Run the server as a daemon. New root directory may be specified (default is
/).- -v, --verbose
Enable debug output.
- -h, --help
Print the program help.
- -V, --version
Print the program version. The option -VV makes the program print the compile time configuration summary.
Signals¶
The knotd process handles the following signals:
SIGINT – Stop the process.
SIGHUP – Reload the server configuration and reopen configured log files.
SIGUSR1 – Reload all configured zones (not recommended with catalog zones).
Exit values¶
Exit status of 0 means successful operation. Any other exit status indicates an error.
See Also¶
knot.conf(5), knotc(8), keymgr(8), kjournalprint(8).
