BIND 8.1.2 Release Notes

New and Changed Features

New Features

Chapter 126

transfer-format one-answer;

Each resource record receives its own DNS message. This format is

widely accepted but not efﬁcient.

transfer-format many-answers;

Each DNS message contains many records. This format is efﬁcient and

compatible with BIND 8.1.2.

You can specify any of the transfer-format options for a server, using

the transfer-format option within the server statement. If you do not

specify transfer-format, the transfer-format speciﬁed by the

options statement is used.

The server statement is of the following format:

server ip_addr {

[ bogus yes_or_no; ]

[transfers number; ]

[ transfer-format ( one-answer | many-answers ); ]

[ keys { key_id [key_id ...]}; ]

};

Following is an example server statement:

server 1.2.3.4{

bogus no;

transfers 0;

transfer-format one-answer;

keys{sample_key;};

};

NOTE The transfers option limits the number of concurrent inbound zone

transfers from the speciﬁed server. This option is not implemented in

this release.