ddns-confgen — ddns key generation tool
tsig-keygen
[-a ]
[algorithm-h]
[-r ]
[name]
randomfile
ddns-confgen
[-a ]
[algorithm-h]
[-k ]
[keyname-q]
[-r ]
[
-s randomfilename
| -z zone
]
tsig-keygen and ddns-confgen are invocation methods for a utility that generates keys for use in TSIG signing. The resulting keys can be used, for example, to secure dynamic DNS updates to a zone or for the rndc command channel.
When run as tsig-keygen, a domain name
can be specified on the command line which will be used as
the name of the generated key. If no name is specified,
the default is tsig-key.
When run as ddns-confgen, the generated key is accompanied by configuration text and instructions that can be used with nsupdate and named when setting up dynamic DNS, including an example update-policy statement. (This usage similar to the rndc-confgen command for setting