Welcome to Knot DNS’s documentation!

• Introduction
  • What is Knot DNS
  • Knot DNS features
  • License
• Requirements
  • Hardware
  • Operating system
  • Required libraries
  • Optional libraries
• Installation
  • Installation from a package
  • Installation from the source code
• Configuration
  • Simple configuration
  • Zone templates
  • Access control list (ACL)
  • Slave zone
  • Master zone
  • Dynamic updates
  • Automatic DNSSEC signing
  • Query modules
  • Performance Tuning
• Operation
  • Configuration database
  • Dynamic configuration
  • Slave mode
  • Master mode
  • Reading and editing zones
  • Journal behaviour
  • DNSSEC keys algorithm rollover
  • Daemon controls
  • Statistics
• Troubleshooting
  • Reporting bugs
  • Generating backtrace
• Configuration Reference
  • Description
  • Comments
  • Includes
  • Module section
  • Server section
  • Key section
  • ACL section
  • Control section
  • Statistics section
  • Keystore section
  • Submission section
  • Policy section
  • Remote section
  • Template section
  • Zone section
  • Logging section
• Modules
  • dnsproxy – Tiny DNS proxy
  • dnstap – Dnstap traffic logging
  • noudp — No UDP response
  • onlinesign — Online DNSSEC signing
  • rosedb – Static resource records
  • rrl — Response rate limiting
  • stats — Query statistics
  • synthrecord – Automatic forward/reverse records
  • whoami — Whoami response
• Utilities
  • kdig – Advanced DNS lookup utility
  • keymgr – Key management utility
  • pykeymgr – Key management utility
  • khost – Simple DNS lookup utility
  • kjournalprint – Knot DNS journal print utility
  • knotc – Knot DNS control utility
  • knotd – Knot DNS server daemon
  • knsec3hash – NSEC hash computation utility
  • knsupdate – Dynamic DNS update utility
  • kzonecheck – Knot DNS zone file checking tool
• Migration
  • Upgrade 2.4.x to 2.5.x
  • Knot DNS for BIND users
• Appendices
  • Compatible PKCS #11 Devices