Installing and Administering Internet Services

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Configuring and Administering the BIND Name Service
Configuring a Primary Master Name Server
options Statement
The options statement in the /etc/named.conf file controls global
server configuration options that are used by BIND 8.1.2. This statement
may appear only once in a configuration file. If it is found more than
once, the first occurrence determines the actual options used. Also a
warning is generated if more than one statement is found. If the options
statement is not specified, the default is used.
options Statement Syntax
The syntax for the options statement is as follows:
options {
[ directory path_name; ]
[ named-xfer path_name; ]
[ dump-file path-name; ]
[ memstatistics-file path_name; ]
[ pid-file path_name; ]
[ auth-nxdomain yes_or_no;]
eventlib Debugging information from the event system
packet Dumps of packets received and sent
notify The NOTIFY protocol
security Approved/unapproved requests
insist Internal consistency check failures
db Database operations
os Operating System problems
maintenance Periodic maintenance events
load Zone loading messages
response-checks Messages arising from response checking
default Unclassified messages and categories that do not have a
channel list explicitly defined.
Table 3-1 Channel Message Categories
Message Category Description