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
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dnssec-signzone -t Print the performance statistics at
the time of completion.
named -v Report the version number and
exit.
named-checkconf -t chroot to directory to process
include directives in the
configuration file as if it is run by
a similarly chrooted named.
named-checkconf -v Print the version number of
named-checkconf and exit.
named-checkzone -v Print the version number of
named-checkzone and exit.
nsupdate key {name}
[secret]
Specify that all updates need to be
TSIG signed using the keyname
keysecret pair. The key command
overrides any key specified on the
command line via -y or -k.
nsupdate local
{address}
[port]
Send all dynamic update requests
using the local address. If no local
statement is provided, nsupdate
will send updates using an
address and port chosen by the
system. port can also be used to
set a specific port from where
requests are sent. If port number
is not specified, the system will
assign one.
nsupdate send Send the current message. This is
equivalent to entering a blank
line.
Table 1-2 New Command Line Options (Continued)
Binaries/Tools Options Usage