Installing and Administering Internet Services

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Conﬁguring and Administering the BIND Name Service

Conﬁguring a Primary Master Name Server

Table 3-2 lists the various options available.

Table 3-2 HP-Speciﬁc option Statement Options

Option Description

noforward

{ [ domain; [domain; . . . ]]};

The noforward line speciﬁes that the DNS server will

not forward any request for something in or below the

listed domains, even if the forwarders directive exists.

no-round-robin The no-round-robin option turns off the default

round-robin, which cycles returned IP addresses for

multi-homed hosts.

alias_ip The alias_ip directive used in ServiceGuard

environment allows named to use relocatable IP addresses.

Table 3-3 Pathname Options

Option Description

directory path_name; This is the working directory of the server. Any

non-absolute path names in the conﬁguration ﬁle will be

taken as relative to this directory. The default location for

most server output ﬁles (for example named.run) is this

directory. If a directory is not speciﬁed, the working

directory defaults to ".", the directory from which the server

was started. The directory speciﬁed should be an absolute

path.

named-xfer path_name; The pathname to the named-xfer program that the server

uses for inbound zone transfers. If this is not speciﬁed, the

default is system dependent (for example

/usr/sbin/name-d-xfer)

dump-file path_name; The pathname of the ﬁle to which the server dumps the

database when it receives SIGINT signal. If this is not

speciﬁed, the default is named_dump.db

memstatistics-file path_name; The pathname of the ﬁle to which the server writes memory

statistics on exit, if deallocate-on-exit is yes. If not

speciﬁed, the default is named.memstats.