djbdnscurve6:(tinydns-data)

NAME
tinydns-data - data tool for tinydns

DESCRIPTION
tinydns-data reads local DNS information from a file named data in the current directory. It creates data.cdb in a binary format designed for fast access by tinydns. It may also create some other files with names beginning with data. tinydns-data updates data.cdb atomically, so you can use it safely while tinydns is running. If anything goes wrong with the creation of data.cdb, tinydns-data stops and leaves the old data.cdb in place.

Data format
The DNS information in data is a series of lines. There are several types of lines, as shown below. Each line starts with a special character and continues with a series of vertical-bar separated fields. In some cases the fields may be omitted; however, all vertical-bars must be included except at the end of the line. Spaces and tabs at the end of a line are ignored. Each line contains a ttl (``time to live'') specifying the number of seconds that the line's DNS records may be cached. Beware that cache times below 300 seconds will be treated as 300 by some clients, and NS cache times below 2 seconds can cause lookup failures. You may omit ttl; tinydns-data will use default cache times, carefully selected to work well in normal situations. You may include a timestamp on each line. If ttl is nonzero (or omitted), the timestamp is a starting time for the information in the line; the line will be ignored before that time. If ttl is zero, the timestamp is an ending time (``time to die'') for the information in the line; tinydns dynamically adjusts ttl so that the line's DNS records are not cached for more than a few seconds past the ending time. A timestamp is an external TAI64 timestamp, printed as 16 lowercase hexadecimal characters. For example, the lines
      +www.heaven.af.mil|1.2.3.4|0|4000000038af1379
      +www.heaven.af.mil|1.2.3.7||4000000038af1379
specify that www.heaven.af.mil will have address 1.2.3.4 until time 4000000038af1379 (2000-02-19 22:04:31 UTC) and will then switch to IP address 1.2.3.7. A ``split-horizon'' mode is supported specifying client locations by % lines:
    	%lo:ipprefix
means that IP addresses starting with ipprefix are in location lo. lo is a sequence of one or two ASCII letters. A client is in only one location; longer prefixes override shorter prefixes. For example,
    	%in:192.168
    	%ex
    	+jupiter.heaven.af.mil|192.168.1.2|||in
    	+jupiter.heaven.af.mil|1.2.3.4|||ex
specifies that jupiter.heaven.af.mil has address 192.168.1.2 for clients in the 192.168.* network and address 1.2.3.4 for everyone else.

Common data lines

=>  .fqdn|ip|x|ttl|timestamp|lo
Name server for our domain fqdn. tinydns-data creates

    an NS record showing x.ns.fqdn as a name server for fqdn;

    an A record showing ip as it's IPv4 address or an AAAA record showing ip as the IPv6 address of x.ns.fqdn; and

    an SOA record for fqdn listing x.ns.fqdn as the primary name server and hostmaster@fqdn as the contact address.

You may have several name servers for one domain, with a different x for each server. tinydns will return only one SOA record per domain. If x contains a dot then tinydns-data will use x as the server name rather than x.ns.fqdn. This feature is provided only for compatibility reasons; names not ending with fqdn will force clients to contact parent servers much more often than they otherwise would, and will reduce the overall reliability of DNS. You should omit ip if x has IP addresses assigned elsewhere in data; in this case, tinydns-data will omit the A or AAAA record.

=>  &fqdn|ip|x|ttl|timestamp|lo
Name server for domain fqdn. tinydns-data creates

    an NS record showing x.ns.fqdn as a name server for fqdn and

    an A record ip as IPv4 or an AAAA record showing ip as the IPv6 address of x.ns.fqdn.

If x contains a dot then it is treated specially; see above. You may have several name servers for one domain, with a different x for each server. Normally & is used for domains delegated by this server to child servers, while . is used for domains delegated to this server.

=>  =fqdn|ip|ttl|timestamp|lo

=>  :fqdn|ip|ttl|timestamp|lo
Host fqdn with IPv4 or IPv6 address ip depending, whether the first character is = or :. tinydns-data creates

    an A or AAAA record showing ip as the IPv4 or IPv6 address of fqdn and

    a PTR record showing fqdn as the name of d.c.b.a.in-addr.arpa if ip is a.b.c.d. For IPv6 addresses the PTR record fqdn is provided as f.e.d...2.ip6.arpa in case the IPv6 address looks like 2....:def.

Remember to specify name servers for some suffix of fqdn; otherwise tinydns will not respond to queries about fqdn. The same comment applies to other records described below. Similarly, remember to specify name servers for some suffix of d.c.b.a.in-addr.arpa
 or f.e.d....2.ip6.arpa if that domain has been delegated to you.

=>  +fqdn|ip|ttl|timestamp|lo

=>  ~fqdn|ip|ttl|timestamp|lo
Alias fqdn with IPv4 address ip in case the first character is + or an IPv6 address if ~ is supplied. This is just like =fqdn|ip|ttl except that tinydns-data does not create the PTR record. tinydns returns addresses (from + or = or @ or . or & or : or ~ lines) in a random order in the answer section. If there are more than 8 records, it returns a random set of 8.

=>  @fqdn|ip|x|dist|ttl|timestamp|lo
Mail exchanger for fqdn. tinydns-data creates

    an MX record showing x.mx.fqdn as a mail exchanger for fqdn at distance dist and

    an A or AAAA record showing ip as the IPv4 or IPv6 address of x.mx.fqdn.

You may omit dist; the default distance is 0. If x contains a dot then it is treated specially; see above. You may create several MX records for fqdn, with a different x for each server. Make sure to arrange for the SMTP server on each IP address to accept mail for fqdn.

=>  #comment
Comment line. The line is ignored.

Uncommon data lines

=>  -fqdn|s|ttl|timestamp|lo
This type of line is used by programs that automatically edit + lines in data to temporarily exclude addresses of overloaded or dead machines. The line is ignored.

=>  'fqdn|s|ttl|timestamp|lo
TXT record for fqdn. tinydns-data creates a TXT record for fqdn containing the string s. Printable ASCII characters - including white spaces - are accepted unaltered.

=>  ^fqdn|p|ttl|timestamp|lo
PTR record for fqdn. tinydns-data creates a PTR record for fqdn pointing to the domain name p.

=>  Cfqdn|p|ttl|timestamp|lo
CNAME record for fqdn. tinydns-data creates a CNAME record for fqdn pointing to the domain name p. Don't use Cfqdn if there are any other records for fqdn Don't use fqdn for common aliases; use +fqdn instead. Remember the wise words of Inigo Montoya: ``You keep using CNAME records. I do not think they mean what you think they mean.'' and those ones of Donald Trump: ``Don't propagate fake news.''

=>  Zfqdn|mname|rname|ser|ref|ret|exp|min|ttl|timestamp|lo
SOA record for fqdn showing mname as the primary name server, rname (with the first . converted to @) as the contact address, ser as the serial number, ref as the refresh time, ret as the retry time, exp as the expire time, and min as the minimum time. ser, ref, ret, exp, and min may be omitted; they default to, respectively, the modification time of the data file, 16384 seconds, 2048 seconds, 1048576 seconds, and 2560 seconds.

=>  Ofqdn|n|rdata|ttl|timestamp|lo
Generic record for fqdn. tinydns-data creates a record of type n for fqdn showing rdata. n must be an integer between 1 and 65535. The proper format of rdata depends on n. You may use octal nnn codes to include arbitrary bytes inside rdata.

WILDCARDS
tinydns supports wildcards of the form *.fqdn. Information for *.fqdn is provided for every name ending with .fqdn, except names that have their own records and names that are covered by more specific wildcards. For example, the lines
    	+pink.floyd.u.heaven.af.mil|1.2.3.4
    	+*.u.heaven.af.mil|1.2.3.200
have the same effect as
    	+pink.floyd.u.heaven.af.mil|1.2.3.4
    	+joe.u.heaven.af.mil|1.2.3.200
    	+bill.u.heaven.af.mil|1.2.3.200
    	+floyd.u.heaven.af.mil|1.2.3.200
    	+ishtar.u.heaven.af.mil|1.2.3.200
    	+joe.bob.u.heaven.af.mil|1.2.3.200
    	+sally.floyd.u.heaven.af.mil|1.2.3.200
    	+post.pink.floyd.u.heaven.af.mil|1.2.3.200
and so on.

Example for data file
Here is a typical data file:
    	=lion.heaven.af.mil|1.2.3.4
    	@heaven.af.mil|1.2.3.4
    	@3.2.1.in-addr.arpa|1.2.3.4
    	@heaven.af.mil|2001::25
    	# IPv6 declarations
    	:lion.heaven.af.mil|2001:fefe::123a
    	@heaven.af.mil|2001:fefe::25
    	~www.af.mil|2001:fefe::123a
    	=tiger.heaven.af.mil|1.2.3.5
    	.heaven.af.mil|1.2.3.5|a
    	.3.2.1.in-addr.arpa|1.2.3.5|a
    	=bear.heaven.af.mil|1.2.3.6
    	.heaven.af.mil|1.2.3.6|b
    	.3.2.1.in-addr.arpa|1.2.3.6|b
    	=cheetah.heaven.af.mil|1.2.3.248
    	=panther.heaven.af.mil|1.2.3.249
Here is the same information in traditional zone-file format (with the two zones merged):
      heaven.af.mil. 2560 IN SOA a.ns.heaven.af.mil. hostmaster.heaven.af.mil. ...
      heaven.af.mil. 259200 IN NS a.ns.heaven.af.mil.
      heaven.af.mil. 259200 IN NS b.ns.heaven.af.mil.
      heaven.af.mil. 86400 IN MX mx.heaven.af.mil.
      3.2.1.in-addr.arpa. 2560 IN SOA a.ns.3.2.1.in-addr.arpa. hostmaster.3.2.1.in-addr.arpa. ...
      3.2.1.in-addr.arpa. 259200 IN NS a.ns.3.2.1.in-addr.arpa.
      3.2.1.in-addr.arpa. 259200 IN NS b.ns.3.2.1.in-addr.arpa.
      3.2.1.in-addr.arpa. 86400 IN MX mx.3.2.1.in-addr.arpa.
      4.3.2.1.in-addr.arpa. 86400 IN PTR lion.heaven.af.mil.
      lion.heaven.af.mil. 86400 IN A 1.2.3.4
      mx.heaven.af.mil. 86400 IN A 1.2.3.4
      mx.3.2.1.in-addr.arpa. 86400 IN A 1.2.3.4
      5.3.2.1.in-addr.arpa. 86400 IN PTR tiger.heaven.af.mil.
      tiger.heaven.af.mil. 86400 IN A 1.2.3.5
      a.ns.heaven.af.mil. 259200 IN A 1.2.3.5
      a.ns.3.2.1.in-addr.arpa. 259200 IN A 1.2.3.5
      6.3.2.1.in-addr.arpa. 86400 IN PTR bear.heaven.af.mil.
      bear.heaven.af.mil. 86400 IN A 1.2.3.6
      b.ns.heaven.af.mil. 259200 IN A 1.2.3.6
      b.ns.3.2.1.in-addr.arpa. 259200 IN A 1.2.3.6
      248.3.2.1.in-addr.arpa. 86400 IN PTR cheetah.heaven.af.mil.
      cheetah.heaven.af.mil. 86400 IN A 1.2.3.248
      249.3.2.1.in-addr.arpa. 86400 IN PTR panther.heaven.af.mil.
      panther.heaven.af.mil. 86400 IN A 1.2.3.249

DESIGN NOTES
The data format is very easy for programs to edit, and reasonably easy for humans to edit, unlike the traditional zone-file format. tinydns-data could support a name wherever an IP address is required; it would look up the name in DNS and use the resulting address. This would reliably track changes in offsite IP addresses if the database were rebuilt periodically.

COMPATIBILTY
The used data format differs from DJB's convention for two declarations: : is used as IPv6 address identifier, while O is used as token for arbitrary data instead of ':'. Thus, apart from this special case, the resulting data.cdb is raw compatible; due to the different token delimitor however not in binary format. Different from to Felix von Leitner's implementation, IPv6 addresses are always entered in their compactified format and indicated by : (instead of '6') or ~ (instead of '3'). As a result, IPv6 addresses are not understood neither in binary nor in plain format.

SEE ALSO
tinydns(8), tinydns-edit(8), tinydns-conf(8), walldns(8)

REFERENCE
http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/faq/tinydns.html