RNDC Socket Programming

Danny Mayer mayer at gis.net
Fri Aug 13 21:46:40 UTC 2004


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.

Danny



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