--- title: "RFC2136" date: 2019-03-03T16:39:46+01:00 draft: false slug: rfc2136 dnsprovider: since: "v0.3.0" code: "rfc2136" url: "https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2136.html" --- Configuration for [RFC2136](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2136.html). - Code: `rfc2136` - Since: v0.3.0 Here is an example bash command using the RFC2136 provider: ```bash RFC2136_NAMESERVER=127.0.0.1 \ RFC2136_TSIG_KEY=example.com \ RFC2136_TSIG_ALGORITHM=hmac-sha256. \ RFC2136_TSIG_SECRET=YWJjZGVmZGdoaWprbG1ub3BxcnN0dXZ3eHl6MTIzNDU= \ lego --email you@example.com --dns rfc2136 -d '*.example.com' -d example.com run ## --- keyname=example.com; keyfile=example.com.key; tsig-keygen $keyname > $keyfile RFC2136_NAMESERVER=127.0.0.1 \ RFC2136_TSIG_FILE="$keyfile" \ lego --email you@example.com --dns rfc2136 -d '*.example.com' -d example.com 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](https://github.com/miekg/dns/blob/master/tsig.go) for supported values. To disable TSIG authentication, leave the `RFC2136_TSIG_KEY` or `RFC2136_TSIG_SECRET` variables unset. | | `RFC2136_TSIG_KEY` | Name of the secret key as defined in DNS server configuration. To disable TSIG authentication, leave the `RFC2136_TSIG_KEY` variable unset. | | `RFC2136_TSIG_SECRET` | Secret key payload. To disable TSIG authentication, leave the `RFC2136_TSIG_SECRET` variable unset. | The environment variable names can be suffixed by `_FILE` to reference a file instead of a value. More information [here]({{% ref "dns#configuration-and-credentials" %}}). ## 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_TSIG_FILE` | Path to a key file generated by tsig-keygen | | `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]({{% ref "dns#configuration-and-credentials" %}}). ## More information - [API documentation](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2136.html)