BIND 9.3.2 Release Notes (5900-2140, December 2011)

Table 3 New Options in the Options Statement (continued)
DescriptionOption
Specifies the location of the public and private key files if the current directory
is not the working directory
key-directory
Specifies the pathname of the file where the server writes memory usage statistics
upon exit. The default file is named.memstats.
memstatistics-file
Specifies whether any pending zone writes must be flushed when the name
server exits because of a SIGTERM signal. The default value is no.
flush-zones-on-shutdown
Specifies the list of IPv4 and IPv6 UDP ports that are not used as system assigned
source ports for UDP sockets.
check-names
The default value depends on the usage area. For master zones, the default
value is fail. For slave zones, the default value is warn. For an answer
(response) received from the network, the default value is ignore.
Avoids named from selecting certain portsavoid-v4-udp-ports and
avoid-v6-udp-ports
Specifies the port range to be selected by nameduse-v4-udp-ports and
use-v6-udp-ports
Specifies the address and port used for queriesquery-source-v6
This option specifies the length of the listen queue. The default and minimum
values are 3. If the kernel supports the dataready accept filter, this option
tcp-listen-queue
also controls the number of TCP connections that are queued in the kernel space
waiting for data, before data is passed to the accept filter.
Specifies an alternate transfer source, if the transfer source listed in the
transfer-source option fails and the use-alt-transfer-source option
is set.
alt-transfer-source
Specifies an alternate transfer source, if the transfer source listed in the
transfer-source-v6 option fails and the use-alt-transfer-source
option is set.
alt-transfer-source-v6
Specifies whether named must use the alternate transfer sources. Alternate
transfer sources are used if views are specified; otherwise, the alternate transfer
sources are not used for BIND 8 compatibility.
use-alt-transfer-source
Sets a maximum size for each journal file. When the journal file approaches
the specified size, older transactions in the journal are removed. The default
value is unlimited.
max-journal-size
Configures the ordering of records in a multiple record responserrset-order
Specifies the glue that is emitted first in the additional section of a query
response. If specified, the listed type (A or AAAA) is emitted before any other
glue. The default value is NONE if a preference is not set for any type of glue.
preferred-glue
Switches on the enforcement of delegation-only in top level domains (TLDs) and
root zones with an optional exclude list.
root-delegation-only
Specifies whether query logging must be started when named starts. If
querylog is not specified, query logging is determined by the presence of
the logging category queries.
querylog
Disables the DNSSEC algorithms at and below the specified name. Multiple
disable-algorithms statements are allowed. However, only the most
specific disable-algorithms option is applied.
disable-algorithms
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