HP-UX IP Address and Client Management Administrator's Guide (October 2009)

Table of Contents
About This Document.......................................................................................................11
New and Changed Information in This Edition...................................................................................11
Intended Audience................................................................................................................................11
HP-UX Release Name and Release Identifier.......................................................................................12
Publishing History................................................................................................................................12
Document Organization.......................................................................................................................12
Related Information..............................................................................................................................12
Typographical Conventions..................................................................................................................13
HP Welcomes Your Comments.............................................................................................................13
1 Overview.......................................................................................................................15
BIND Name Service Overview.............................................................................................................16
DNS Name Space.............................................................................................................................16
IPv6 Support...............................................................................................................................17
DNS Change Notification..........................................................................................................17
Dynamic DNS Update................................................................................................................18
Incremental Zone Transfer.........................................................................................................18
How BIND Works............................................................................................................................19
Round-Robin Address Rotation.................................................................................................19
How BIND Resolves Host Names...................................................................................................20
Lightweight Resolver Library and Daemon..............................................................................21
The rndc Utility..........................................................................................................................21
Generating the rndc.conf File...............................................................................................22
Benefits of Using BIND....................................................................................................................24
BIND Configuration File.................................................................................................................24
The /etc/named.conf Statements................................................................................................26
The acl Statement.......................................................................................................................26
The include Statement................................................................................................................26
The key Statement......................................................................................................................27
The logging Statement................................................................................................................27
Specifying the Number of Log File Backups........................................................................28
Channels and Channel Messages.........................................................................................28
The options Statement................................................................................................................30
Pathname Options.................................................................................................................32
Boolean Options....................................................................................................................32
Forwarding Options..............................................................................................................34
Name-Checking Option........................................................................................................35
Access Control Options ........................................................................................................35
Interface Options...................................................................................................................35
Zone Transfer Options..........................................................................................................36
Resource Limit Options........................................................................................................37
Periodic Task Interval Options..............................................................................................38
Tuning Options.....................................................................................................................38
DNSSEC Options..................................................................................................................39
Server Information Zone Options.........................................................................................39
Bad UDP Port List Options...................................................................................................39
Query Address Options........................................................................................................39
RR Set Ordering Option........................................................................................................40
Dual-Stack Server Option.....................................................................................................40
Additional Options...............................................................................................................40
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