Internet Services Delta Manual for HP-UX 11i Version 1.6

• BIND 9.2.0 is less tolerant of errors in master files, so check your logs and fix any errors
reported. The named-checkzone program can also be used to check master files.
• Outgoing zone transfers now use the "many-answers" format by default.This format is not
understood by certain old versions of BIND 4.9.7.This problem can be resolved by using the
option "transfer-format one-answer;", but HP recommends upgrading the slave
servers.
BIND 8.1.2 Compatibility
This section discusses the BIND 9.2.0-BIND 8.1.2 compatibility.
• Configuration file compatibility
BIND 9.2.0 supports most of the options in named.conf file of BIND 8.1.2. BIND 9.2.0
issues a log message if the specified option is not implemented. It also logs the information
if the default value is changed.
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◦ In BIND 9.2.0, named refuses to start if it detects an error in named.conf. Earlier versions
would start despite errors, causing the server to run with a partial configuration.
◦ In BIND 9.2.0, the " logging" statement only takes effect after the entire named.conf
file has been read. In BIND 8.1.2, the new logging configuration took effect immediately
after a "logging" statement was read.
◦ The source address and port for notify messages and refresh queries is now controlled
by " notify-source" and "transfer-source", respectively, as against
query-source in BIND 8.1.2.
• Zone file compatibility
BIND 9.2.0 does not support serial numbers of SOA record with an embedded period,
like "3.002". Serial numbers should be integers.
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◦ TXT records with unbalanced quotes, like 'host TXT "foo', were not treated as errors in
previous versions of BIND. If the zone files contain such records, then error messages like
"unexpected end of file"will be displayed because BIND 9.2.0 will interpret everything
up to the next quote character as a literal string.
◦ Previous versions of BIND accept RRs containing line breaks that are not properly quoted
with parentheses. This is not legal master file syntax and will be treated as an error by
BIND 9.2.0.
Documentation
BIND 9.2.0 documentation is available through its man pages. Table 3-4 lists and describes the
man pages distributed with BIND 9.2.0.
Table 10 Man Pages
DescriptionMan Page
Internet domain name servernamed.1m
Key generation tool for DNSSECdnssec-keygen.1
Program used to produce a set of DNS
keys.
dnssec-makekeyset.1
DNSSEC keyset signing tooldnssec-signkey.1
DNSSEC zone signing tooldnssec-signzone.1
DNS lookup utilityhost.1
Program used to query nameservers
interactively.
nslookup.1
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