BIND 9.2.0 Release Notes
Table Of Contents
- 1 New Features
- BIND 8.1.2 Features Supported on HP-UX 11.0
- New BIND 9.2.0 Features
- Incremental Zone Transfer
- DNS Security
- Dynamic DNS Update
- TSIG-Based Security
- Lightweight Resolver Library and Daemon
- Improved Logging Mechanism
- Extended Configuration Syntax and Options
- New Options in options Statement
- New Option in “server” Statement
- New Options in “zone” Statement
- named-checkconf
- named-checkzone
- rndc
- Generating rndc.conf File
- New Command Line Options
- Changed Features
- Unsupported Features
- 2 Installation Information
- 3 Documentation
- 4 Known Problems, Limitation and Defect Fixes
New Features
New BIND 9.2.0 Features
Chapter 1 17
• max-transfer-idle-out
This option is used to specify the time period for which Outbound
zone transfers are idle. Default is 60 mins.
• sig-validity-interval
This option is used to specify the expiry time of DNSSEC signature
that is automatically generated as a result of updates. Default is 30
days.
• match-clients
This option is used to specify the IP addresses of the namespace
defined by each view statement.
• zone
This option is used to specify the IP addresses of the namespace
defined by each view statement.
• View
This is an option that lets a nameserver answer a DNS query
differently, depending on whether it is an internal query or external
query. This is used to setup split DNS. All the below options of view
are similar to those that are defined in "options" statement:
1. auth-nxdomain
2. notify
3. recursion
4. also-notify
5. forward
6. forwarders
7. allow-query
8. allow-transfer
9. allow-recursion
10. query-source
11. max-transfer-time-out
12. max-transfer-idle-out
13. max-cache-ttl