BIND 8.1.2 Release Notes

New and Changed Features
New Features
Chapter 116
The options Statement
The options statement controls global server configuration options used
in BIND 8.1.2. This statement can appear only once in a configuration
file. If more than one occurrence is found, the first occurrence determines
the actual options used, and a warning is generated. If there is no
options statement, an options block with each option set to its default
value is used.
The options statement is of the following format:
options {
[ directory path_name; ]
[ named-xfer path_name; ]
[ dump-file path_name; ]
[ memstatistics-file path_name; ]
[ pid-file path_name; ]
[ statistics-file path_name; ]
[ auth-nxdomain yes_or_no; ]
[ deallocate-on-exit yes_or_no; ]
[ fake-iquery yes_or_no; ]
[ fetch-glue yes_or_no; ]
[ host-statistics yes_or_no; ]
[ multiple-cnames yes_or_no; ]
[ notify yes_or_no; ]
[ recursion yes_or_no; ]
[ forward ( only | first ); ]
[ forwarders { [ in_addr ; [ in_addr ; ... ] ] }; ]
[ check-names ( master | slave | response )
( warn | fail | ignore ); ]
[ allow-query { address_match_list }; ]
[ allow-transfer { address_match_list }; ]
[ listen-on [ port ip_port ] { address_match_list }; ]