DNS Configuration and Management Manual (G06.27+, H06.05+, J06.03+)

DNS and BIND Basics
HP DNS Configuration and Management Manual—529432-003
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The /etc/named.conf Statements
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The options statement
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The server statement
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The zone statement
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The view statement
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The sortlist statement
The
acl statement is discussed further in Use ACLs on page 3-9, logging is
discussed in Logging in DNS
on page 5-3, and the options statement is discussed in
Section 2, BIND 9.x on the NonStop Server
as well as in the BIND Administrator
Reference Manual.
The
options statement is complex, currently containing 84 configurable options. (The
allow-update and update-policy statements are mutually exclusive, however.)
The current list of supported options is organized in
BIND Administrator Reference
Manual in functional groups. This organization is shown here to facilitate discussions of
DNS configuration within this manual. The categories are:
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Periodic Task Intervals on page A-21
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Topology on page A-21
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The sortlist Statement on page A-22
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RRset Ordering on page A-22
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Synthetic IPv6 Responses on page A-22
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Tuning on page A-22
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The Statistics File on page A-22
options Statement Definition and Usage
This category is a catch-all for options that do not fit in the other categories. Options
described in this category include:
version
directory
named-xfer
tkey-domain
tkey-dhkey
dump-file
memstatistics-file
pid-file
statistics-file (also described in The Statistics File on page A-22)
port
random-device