Warning

This documentation is intended to help with advanced fine-tuning of Knot Resolver! If you are looking for help with day-to-day use without the need to involve yourself with the Lua programming language, please see the user documentation.

Knot Resolver developer documentation

Welcome to Knot Resolver’s documentation for developers and advanced users!

Building for sources

• Cloning the repository
• Building with apkg
• Building with Meson
• Docker image

Lua configuration

• Syntax
• Documentation Conventions
• Modules
• Networking and protocols
• Performance and resiliency
• Policy, access control, data manipulation
• Logging, monitoring, diagnostics
• DNSSEC, data verification
• Experimental features
• Custom HTTP services

C API

• Knot Resolver library
• Modules API reference
• Worker API reference
• Logging API reference

Architecture

• Manager’s development guide
• System architecture

Infrastructure

• Documentation in GitLab Pages

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page