Open System Services Management and Operations Guide (G06.29+, H06.07+)

Managing Servers
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Configuration Files for the Network Services Servers
and Tools
Guardian environment and in OSS documentation). The portmapper program has
RPC program number 100000.
#
# rpc version 1.16 2001/04/27
#
portmapper 100000 portmap sunrpc
The fields of each program-entry line are separated by blanks.
Any entry other than the portmapper entry would be a requirement unique to another
product requiring the use of RPCINFO. For the information to include in such entries,
see the documentation for the specific product.
BIND 9 Domain Name Server and Tools
The named, lwresd, rndc, and nsupdate programs use the following files, which
you need to configure:
You can copy and modify the sample files provided:
File Purpose
/etc/named.conf Default DNS name server configuration file; identifies the
location of the zone files. A different file can be specified
using an environment variable or a command line flag when
named is started. The directory used for named.conf can
be separately changed from
/etc.
/etc/dns923/named.conf Sample of /etc/named.conf provided for the nonsecure
version of named.
/etc/dns_secure/
named.conf
Sample of /etc/named.conf provided for the secure
version of named.
/etc/resolv.conf Provides the domain name and IP address of the domain
name server to be used when running other BIND utilities
such as nsupdate.
/etc/rndc.conf Default rndc configuration file. A different file can be
specified when rndc is started.
/etc/rndc.key Default file used to authenticate commands sent to named
when an /etc/rndc.conf configuration file does not
exist.
/var/run/named.pid The default process-id file used by named.
File Purpose
/etc/dns923/named.conf Sample of /etc/named.conf provided for the nonsecure
version of named.