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Configuring and Managing BIND
5.2 Migrating to BIND 8.1
Important
You must be consistent when making changes to your BIND environment.
If you make changes by editing the configuration file, you should continue
to make changes in that manner.
If you revert to the UCX BIND configuration method (SET
CONFIGURATION BIND and CONVERT/CONFIGURATION
BIND commands), any changes you made to the configuration file
(TCPIP$BIND.CONF) are lost.
If you continue to use the SET CONFIGURATION BIND commands, you
must always enter the CONVERT/CONFIGURATION BIND command in
order for your changes to take effect.
5.3 Configuring the BIND Server (BIND 8.1)
This section describes how to configure the BIND name server on your local host.
BIND 8.1 stores configuration information in a text file called
TCPIP$BIND.CONF. The TCP/IP Services product provides a template for
this file located in the SYS$SPECIFIC:[TCPIP$BIND] directory. Edit this
template to reflect your site-specific configuration requirements before running
BIND.
A BIND 8.1 configuration file consists of statements and comments. Statements
end with a semicolon. Many statements contain a block of substatements that
also end with a semicolon. Table 5–2 describes the valid configuration statements.
For detailed descriptions of these statements, see the BIND 8 documentation at
www.isc.org/
Table 5–2 BIND Name Server Configuration Statements
Statement Description
acl name Defines an address match list used for access control and other uses. The
following ACLs are built in:
Any Allows all hosts.
None Denies all hosts.
Localhost Allows the IP addresses of all interfaces on the system.
localnets Allows any host on a network for which the system has an
interface.
See Section 5.3.5 for more information about these options.
include path_name Inserts a file. Use this statement to break the configuration file into manageable
sections. The following lines, for example, could be placed at the top of a BIND
configuration file so that it includes any ACL or key information.
include "SYS$SPECIFIC:[TCPIP$BIND]KEYS.BIND";
include "SYS$SPECIFIC:[TCPIP$BIND]ACLS.BIND";
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