HP-UX 11i Version 2 Release Notes (October 2003)
Internet and Networking
Internet Services
Chapter 6
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Obsolescence
Not applicable.
named-xfer (Obsolete)
The named-xfer ancillary program is executed by named (1M) to perform an inbound
zone transfer. It is generally used to debug problems encountered during a zone transfer.
Summary of Change
The following changes are in effect due to the obsolescence of the named-xfer utility:
• Starting from the HP-UX 11i v1.5 release, BIND 9.2 (which is available in the base
operating system) does not support the named-xfer utility.
•The dig utility replaces the named-xfer utility in all releases starting from HP-UX
11i v1.5. For example, you can use the following dig command to transfer the
contents of the zone zone_to_transfer received from the DNS server nameserver,
to the file db_file:
dig zone_to_transfer axfr @nameserver > db_file
where:
db_file Specifies the name of the file to which the zone
must be dumped when the information is
received from the primary server.
nameserver Specifies the DNS server that is queried in each
query.
zone_to_transfer Specifies the name of the zone to be transferred.
The equivalent named-xfer command is as follows:
named-xfer -f db_file -z zone_to_transfer nameserver
For more information on the dig utility, see the dig (1M) manpage.
• BIND 8.1.2 and BIND 4.9.7, which are available in the base operating systems of
HP-UX 11i v1 and 11.0, respectively, are the only versions of BIND supporting the
named-xfer utility.
Impact
There are no impacts.
Compatibility
There are no compatibility issues.
Performance
There are no performance issues.