knotd – Knot DNS server daemon¶

Synopsis¶

knotd [parameters]

Knot DNS is a high-performance authoritative DNS server. The knotd program is the DNS server daemon.

-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.
-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.

Exit status of 0 means successful operation. Any other exit status indicates an error.