RNDC Socket Programming

[David Fort]

Danny Mayer wrote:
> At 02:40 PM 8/13/2004, Jeremy wrote:
> 
>>Hello List,
>>
>>  I am using a server-side language called Lasso to develop a web-UI
>>for BIND. Lasso does not offer a cross-platform compatible way to
>>execute system commands, so I wanted to use sockets programming to
>>communicate with the RNDC utility. I can not seem to find any specs on
>>the protocol headers to send/recieve from the utility. Does anyone
>>have any information that could assist me?
>>
>>Thanks in advance.
>>- Jeremy
> 
> 
> There is no programmable interface as such. You can read the rndc.c source and
> look at the header files for documentation as to what it does, but you cannot
> call rndc itself. You'd basically need to call the isccc API yourself.
> 
IIRC rndc uses an encrypted channel to communicate(libisccc abstracts 
this). So the best way to do "rndc like" things  is to use libisccc 
shipped with BIND.