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cascaded - DNSSEC signer

cascaded [OPTIONS]

cascaded is the daemon process of Cascade, a friendly DNSSEC signing solution.

For more information about Cascade, please refer to the Cascade documentation at https://cascade.docs.nlnetlabs.nl.

Check the configuration and exit.

The global state file to use.

The configuration file to load. Defaults to /etc/cascade/config.toml.

The minimum severity of messages to log [possible values: trace, debug, info, warning, error, critical].

Defaults to info, unless set in the config file.


Where logs should be written to [possible values: stdout, stderr, file:<PATH>, syslog].

Changed in version 0.1.0-alpha2: Added types stdout and stderr. Type file with values /dev/stdout and /dev/stderr can still be used but may not work properly in some cases, e.g. when running under systemd.

Whether Cascade should fork on startup.

Print the help text (short summary with -h, long help with --help).

Print version.

/etc/cascade/config.toml
Default Cascade config file
/etc/cascade/policies
Default policies directory
/var/lib/cascade/zone-state
Default zone state directory
/var/lib/cascade/tsig-keys.db
Default file for stored TSIG keys
/var/lib/cascade/keys
Default directory for on-disk zone keys
/usr/libexec/cascade/cascade-dnst
Default (Cascade-specific) dnst binary for use by Cascade
/var/lib/cascade/kmip/credentials.db
Default file for KMIP credentials
/var/lib/cascade/kmip
Default directory for KMIP state files

Cascade online documentation
Cascade CLI
Configuration File Format
Policy File Format

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November 21, 2025 0.1.0-alpha5