HP-UX 11i Release Notes (December 2000)

Internet and Networking Services
Base HP-UX Internet Services (new)
Chapter 10190
Server (DDNS).
NOTE The Dynamic updates, however, are NOT secure, and you are advised to
put security mechanisms in place before using this feature.
The following lists the new features:
• DDNS Change Notification (RFC 1996)
• Completely new configuration syntax
• Flexible, categorized logging system
• IP-address-based access control for queries, zone transfers, and
updates that may be specified on a zone-by-zone basis
• More efficient zone transfers
• Improved performance for servers with thousands of zones
• The server no longer forks for outbound zone transfers
• Many bug fixes
New Configuration File
A BIND configuration file is now named.conf, with many more
configurable variables than in previous releases of BIND. The
configuration file in previous versions of BIND was named.boot.
There are nowentirely new areas of configuration,such as, access control
lists and categorized logging. Many options that previously applied to all
zones can now be used selectively.
The configuration file can be obtained by following these steps:
1. Make sure that Perl is installed on the system.
2. The hosts_to_named script must be copied to /usr/sbin and a link
provided from /usr/bin manually.
3. A Perl script named-bootconf.pl is available in /usr/bin. This
script is used to convert the existing named.boot file to named.conf
file.
4. The new BIND configuration file named.conf must be created. Do this
in either of two ways: