HP-UX 11i Version 2 Release Notes (October 2003)

Internet and Networking
Internet Services
Chapter 6
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• “WU-FTPD 2.6.1” on page 148
BIND 9.2.0
The Domain Name System (DNS) is a mechanism that implements a machine name
hierarchy for TCP/IP based networks. The Berkeley Internet Name Domain server
(BIND) is a commonly used DNS implementation.
Summary of Change
BIND 9.2.0 provides the following new features:
• In the “options” statement, the following new options are added:
— dump-file
— statistics-file
— blackhole
— coresize
— sortlist
— max-cache-size
• A new option bogus is added to the “server” statement to prevent queries to a remote
server that gives out invalid data. The default value of bogus is no.
• In the “zone” statement, the following new options are added:
— forwarders This option specifies the IP addresses used for forwarding.
— allow-update This option specifies the hosts that are allowed to submit
Dynamic DNS updates to master zones.
• The command, rndc-confgen, can be used to generate rndc.conf, the rndc
configuration file. Alternatively, it can also be run with the -a option to set up the
rndc.key file to avoid the need for an rndc.conf file and a control statement.
• The remote name daemon control program, rndc, allows system administrators to
control the operations of a name server. The new commands added in rndc are as
follows:
— reconfig
— trace
— trace level
— notrace
— flush
— flush [view]
— status
— start
— stop