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Configuring and Managing BIND
5.3 Configuring the BIND Server (BIND 8.1)
lame-servers Messages like ‘‘Lame server on ...’’ .
statistics Statistics.
panic If the server has to shut itself down because of an internal problem, it
logs the problem in this category as well as in the problem’s native
category. If you do not define the panic category, the following
definition is used:
category panic { default_syslog; default_stderr; };
update
Dynamic updates.
ncache Negative caching.
xfer-in Zone transfers the server is receiving.
xfer-out Zone transfers the server is sending.
db All database operations.
eventlib Debugging information from the event system. Only one channel can
be specified for this category, and it must be a file channel. If you do
not define the eventlib category, the following definition is used:
category eventlib { default_debug; };
packet Dumps of packets received and sent. Only one channel can be specified
for this category, and it must be a file channel. If you do not define the
packet category, the following definition is used:
category packet { default_debug; };
notify The NOTIFY protocol.
cname Messages like ‘‘... points to a CNAME’’.
security
Approved and unapproved requests.
os Operating system problems.
insist Internal consistency check failures.
maintenance Periodic maintenance events.
load Zone loading messages.
response-
checks
Messages arising from response checking, such as ‘‘Malformed response
...’’, ‘‘wrong ans. name ...’’, ‘‘unrelated additional info ...’’, ‘‘invalid RR
type ...’’, and ‘‘bad referral ...’’.
5.3.2 BIND Configuration Options Statement
The options statement sets up global options to be used by BIND. This statement
can appear only once in a configuration file; if more than one occurrence is
found, the first occurrence determines the actual options used, and a warning is
generated. If there is no options statement, an options block with each option set
to its default is used. The options statement has the following syntax:
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