HP-UX IP Address and Client Management Administrator's Guide HP-UX 11i v2, HP-UX 11i v3

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.......................................................................................11
Publishing History................................................................................................................................11
Document Organization.......................................................................................................................12
Related Information..............................................................................................................................12
Typographical Conventions..................................................................................................................12
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...............................................................................................23
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........................................................................27
Channels and Channel Messages.........................................................................................28
The options Statement................................................................................................................29
Pathname Options.................................................................................................................30
Boolean Options....................................................................................................................31
Forwarding Options..............................................................................................................33
Name-Checking Option........................................................................................................33
Access Control Options ........................................................................................................34
Interface Options...................................................................................................................34
Zone Transfer Options..........................................................................................................34
Resource Limit Options........................................................................................................36
Periodic Task Interval Options..............................................................................................36
Tuning Options.....................................................................................................................37
DNSSEC Options..................................................................................................................37
Server Information Zone Options.........................................................................................38
Bad UDP Port List Options...................................................................................................38
Query Address Options........................................................................................................38
RR Set Ordering Option........................................................................................................38
Dual-Stack Server Option.....................................................................................................39
Additional Options...............................................................................................................39
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