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Repository: validns

Validns is a standalone command line RFC 1034/1035 zone file validation tool that, in addition to basic syntactic and semantic zone checks, includes DNSSEC signature verification and NSEC/NSEC3 chain validation, as well a number of optional policy checks on the zone.

The utility was developed with the goal of it being the last verification step in the chain of production and publication of one or more zones containing up to many thousands (or millions) of signed records, making the speed of operation a primary focus, and reflect on validns’ design.

The utility is currently being used by several major DNS operators.

Currently, validns offers the following features:

parse RFC 1035-compliant zone files (so called “BIND” file format)
supports most of the standard record types
informs the user precisely where and what the errors are
verifies RRSIG signatures
NSEC/NSEC3 chain validation
supports signature validation in the future or in the past
built-in policy checks

Sources

The following sources are packaged in this repository.

Debian Packages

Supported Debian distributions are wheezy, jessie and sid.

Wheezy

echo "deb http://jelu.github.io/validns/debian wheezy main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/jelu.github.io.validns.list
wget -O - https://jelu.github.io/package.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install validns

Jessie

echo "deb http://jelu.github.io/validns/debian jessie main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/jelu.github.io.validns.list
wget -O - https://jelu.github.io/package.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install validns

Sid

echo "deb http://jelu.github.io/validns/debian sid main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/jelu.github.io.validns.list
wget -O - https://jelu.github.io/package.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install validns

Ubuntu Packages

Packages for Ubuntu are provided by LaunchPad, add this PPA to your system to access the packages.

Supported Ubuntu distributions are lucid, precise, trusty, utopic and vivid.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jelu/validns
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install validns

CentOS Packages

Coming soon...

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