Configuring and Managing MPE/iX Internet Services (MPE/iX 6.5)

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BIND 8.1 Enhanced Features
BIND 8 Highlights
Definition and Usage (Zone Types)
master The master copy of the data in a zone.
slave A slave zone is a replica of a master zone. The masters
list specifies one or more IP addresses that the slave
contacts to update its copy of the zone. If file is
specified, then the replica will be written to the file. Use
of file is recommended, since it often speeds server
startup and eliminates a needless waste of bandwidth.
stub A stub zone is like a slave zone, except that it replicates
only the NS records of a master zone instead of the
entire zone.
hint The initial set of root nameservers is specified using a
hint zone. When the server starts up, it uses the root
hints to find a root nameserver and get the most recent
list of root nameservers.
NOTE Previous releases of BIND used the term primary for a master zone,
secondary for a slave zone, and cache for a hint zone.
Class
The zone’s name may optionally be followed by a class. If a class is not
specified, class in is used.
Options
check-names See Name Checking.
allow-query See the description of allow-query in
the Access Control section.
allow-update Specifies which hosts are allowed to
submit Dynamic DNS updates to the
server. The default is to deny updates
from all hosts.
allow- transfer See the description of allow-transfer in
the Access Control section.
max-transfer-time-in See the description of
max-transfer-time-in in the Zone
Transfers section.
notify See the description of notify in the
Boolean Options section.
also-notify also-notify is only meaningful if
notify is active for this zone.
The set of machines that will receive a