Documentation

Documentation

Essential guides for installing, configuring, and operating BoronDNS. Find complete references and advanced topics in the project repository.

Quick Start → Full documentation on GitHub →
Getting Started
Install & configure

Choose a release, configure transfers from your primary, and verify your first secondary zone.

Quick Start Installation Configuration
Reference
Config & CLI

Essential configuration, BoronDNS commands, and transfer authentication, with links to the full upstream references.

config.toml BoronDNS CLI TSIG Setup
Operations
Hardening & ops

Monitoring, security hardening, and operational guidance for production deployments at any scale.

Monitoring Security Hardening Protocol Support
All pages
Quick Start Install, configure, and verify your first secondary zone. Installation Choose a release artifact, verify it, and prepare the service. Configuration Configure listeners, zone transfers, credentials, and persistent state. Configuration Reference Find the full configuration schema, examples, and override rules. BoronDNS CLI Generate, validate, inspect, and run a BoronDNS configuration. TSIG Setup Authenticate primary-to-secondary transfers with a shared key. Monitoring Check readiness, zone freshness, transfer failures, and DNS answers. Security Hardening Protect transfers, management access, credentials, and service state. Architecture How BoronDNS transfers, persists, and publishes secondary zones. Protocol Support Understand supported DNS features and find scoped RFC evidence. BoronGun Run a DNS response check and find the full load-testing guide.