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
Documentation
Man Pages
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Man Pages
BIND 9.2.0 documentation is available through its man pages. Table 3-1
lists and describes the man pages distributed with BIND 9.2.0.
Table 3-1 Man Pages
Man Page Description
named.1m Internet domain name server
dnssec-keygen.1 Key generation tool for DNSSEC
dnssec-makekeyset.1 Program used to produce a set of
DNS keys.
dnssec-signkey.1 DNSSEC keyset signing tool
dnssec-signzone.1 DNSSEC zone signing tool
host.1 DNS lookup utility
nslookup.1 Program used to query
nameservers interactively.
nsupdate.1 Dynamic DNS update utility
lwresd.1m Lightweight resolver daemon
rndc.1 Name server control utility
rndc.conf.4 rndc configuration file
sig-named.1m Program used to send signals to
the nameserver.
named-checkconf.1 named configuration file syntax
checking tool
named-checkzone.1 Zone validity checking tool
hosts_to_named.1m Program used to translate host
table to name server file format.
dig.1m Domain information groper