lego/docs/content/dns/zz_gen_rfc2136.md

title	date	draft	slug
RFC2136	2019-03-03T16:39:46+01:00	false	rfc2136

Since: v0.3.0

Configuration for RFC2136.

• Code: rfc2136

Here is an example bash command using the RFC2136 provider:

RFC2136_NAMESERVER=127.0.0.1 \
RFC2136_TSIG_KEY=lego \
RFC2136_TSIG_ALGORITHM=hmac-sha256. \
RFC2136_TSIG_SECRET=YWJjZGVmZGdoaWprbG1ub3BxcnN0dXZ3eHl6MTIzNDU= \
lego --email myemail@example.com --dns rfc2136 --domains my.example.org run

## ---

keyname=lego; keyfile=lego.key; tsig-keygen $keyname > $keyfile

RFC2136_NAMESERVER=127.0.0.1 \
RFC2136_TSIG_KEY="$keyname" \
RFC2136_TSIG_ALGORITHM="$( awk -F'[ ";]' '/algorithm/ { print $2 }' $keyfile )." \
RFC2136_TSIG_SECRET="$( awk -F'[ ";]' '/secret/ { print $3 }' $keyfile )" \
lego --email myemail@example.com --dns rfc2136 --domains my.example.org run

Credentials

Environment Variable Name	Description
RFC2136_NAMESERVER	Network address in the form "host" or "host:port"
RFC2136_TSIG_ALGORITHM	TSIG algorithm. See miekg/dns#tsig.go for supported values. To disable TSIG authentication, leave the RFC2136_TSIG* variables unset.
RFC2136_TSIG_KEY	Name of the secret key as defined in DNS server configuration. To disable TSIG authentication, leave the RFC2136_TSIG* variables unset.
RFC2136_TSIG_SECRET	Secret key payload. To disable TSIG authentication, leave the RFC2136_TSIG* variables unset.

The environment variable names can be suffixed by _FILE to reference a file instead of a value. More information here.

Additional Configuration

Environment Variable Name	Description
RFC2136_DNS_TIMEOUT	API request timeout
RFC2136_POLLING_INTERVAL	Time between DNS propagation check
RFC2136_PROPAGATION_TIMEOUT	Maximum waiting time for DNS propagation
RFC2136_SEQUENCE_INTERVAL	Time between sequential requests
RFC2136_TTL	The TTL of the TXT record used for the DNS challenge

The environment variable names can be suffixed by _FILE to reference a file instead of a value. More information here.

More information

• API documentation