ldns-walk(1)                General Commands Manual               ldns-walk(1)



NAME
       ldns-walk - Retrieve the contents of a DNSSEC signed zone

SYNOPSIS
       ldns-walk [ OPTION ] ZONE


DESCRIPTION
       ldns-walk is used to retrieve the contents of a DNSSEC signed zone.  It
       does this through NSEC-walking (following the chain  of  NSEC  records)
       and 'guessing' the next non-existent owner name for each NSEC.

       Note that it might get stuck on some wildcard records when used through
       a caching forwarder. This problem can be circumvented by  querying  the
       authoritative nameserver directly (with the @ argument).

       Of course the nameserver that is used must be DNSSEC-aware.


OPTIONS
       -4     Use only IPv4.


       -6     Use only IPv6.


       -f     Do  a 'full' zone walk; by default, ldns-walk will only show the
              names, and types present at  those  names.  If  this  option  is
              given, all resource records will be printed.


       -s name
              Start  the walk with this owner name. Useful when continuing the
              walk for a large zone.


       -v verbosity
              Verbosity level [1-5].


       @ nameserver
              Send the queries to this nameserver.


BUGS
       The full zone walk function is not complete yet, it does not  correctly
       print delegation records


AUTHOR
       Written by Jelte Jansen as an example for ldns usage.


REPORTING BUGS
       Report bugs to <ldns-team@nlnetlabs.nl>.


COPYRIGHT
       Copyright  (C) 2005 NLnet Labs. This is free software. There is NO war-
       ranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR  A  PARTICULAR  PUR-
       POSE.



                                  21 Nov 2005                     ldns-walk(1)
