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 21
and command is one of the following:
Table 1-1 rndc commands
Command Description
reload reload configuration file and zones
reload zone [class
[view]]
reload the given zone
refresh zone [class
[view]]
schedule zone maintenance for the
given zone
stats write serve statistics to the statistics
file
querylog toggle query logging
dumpdb dump the current contents of the cache
into the file specified by the dump-file
option in named.conf.
stop stop the server after saving any recent
changes into the master files of the
updated zones.
halt stop the server immediately without
saving any recent changes into the
master files.
reconfig reload configuration file and new zones
only.
trace increment debugging level by 1
trace level change the debugging level
notrace set debugging level to 0
flush flush all the server’s caches
flush [view] flush the server’s cache for a view
status display the status of the server