Provides a hook for updating nsd zones with certbot DNS authentification (required for wildcard domains)

Dependencies

• python-dnspython

Setup

cerbot

Install the certbot-nsd-hook script and then call certbot as follows:

cerbot certonly \
       -d '*.yourdomain.com'  \
       --manual  \
       --manual-auth-hook="/opt/certbot-nsd-hook/nsd-update-dns.py" \
       --post-hook="systemctl reload apache2"

• -d ... the domain for which you require the certificate
• --manual-auth-hook ... location of the nsd-update-dns.py script
• --post-hook ... command used for reloading your web server

The script asumes that the nsd config file is available at /etc/nsd/nsd.conf.

NSD zone file

• must contain a valid DNS and SOA record (required by python-dnspython)
• should contain a TXT record that is then used for updating the acme challenge

  _acme-challenge 60 IN TXT "dummy"