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Overview
Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) is a distributed database service that
resolves host names and enables internetwork mail. It is a distributed network
information lookup service that maps host names to Internet addresses, and maps
Internet addresses to host names.
Table 1 lists the different Web release versions of BIND available on the
HP-UX 11.0, 11i v1, 11i v2, 11i v3 operating systems.
Table 1: Latest BIND Web Release Version Numbers
Product Version
Number |
Operating
System |
Bundle Version
Number
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Release Date |
| 9.3.2 |
HP-UX 11i v3 |
C.9.3.2.6.0 |
May 2009 |
| 9.3.2 |
HP-UX 11i v2 |
C.9.3.2.4.0 |
May 2009 |
| 9.3.2 |
HP-UX 11i v1 |
C.9.3.2.4.0 |
June 2009 |
| 9.2.0 |
HP-UX 11.0 |
B.11.00.01.004 |
December 2004 |
BIND 9.3.2 Features
BIND 9.3.2 supports the following features:
- DNS Security (DNSSEC) Implementation Based on RFC 4033, 4034, and 4035
- Support for the ip6.arpa Domain
- New Method of Listing Master Servers
- New Options in the Options Statement
- New Option to Configure the Ordering of Records
- New Option to Set the Advertized EDNS UDP Buffer Size
- New Option to Restrict the Character Set of Domain Names
- New Options to Enable and Disable Incremental Zone Transfer (IXFR)
- Transition Support for IPv4 and IPv6
- New Command in the rndc Utility
- New Option in the zone Statement
- New Command-Line Options
- Supports RFC 4193 (Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses)
BIND 9.2.0 Features
BIND 9.2.0 supports the following features:
- Incremental Zone Transfer
- DNSSEC
- Dynamic DNS Update
- Transaction Signature (TSIG)-based Security
- Lightweight Resolver Library and Daemon
- Improved Logging Mechanism
- Extended Configuration Syntax and Options
- New Options in Options, Zone, and Server
Statements
- The named.checkconf utility to check the syntax of the
/etc/named.conf file
- The named-checkzone utility to check the syntax and consistency
of a zone's content
- The rndc utility to control the operation of a name server
- The rndc-confgen utility to generate the configuration file for
rndc
Documentation
Table 2 lists the manpages that are distributed with the BIND software
depot.
Table 2: BIND Manpages
| Manpage |
Description |
| dig.1m |
Domain information groper |
| dnssec-keygen.1 |
Key generation tool for DNSSEC |
| dnssec-makekeyset.1* |
Program used to produce a set of DNS keys |
| dnssec-signkey.1* |
DNSSEC keyset signing tool |
| dnssec-signzone.1 |
Tool to sign the DNSSEC zone |
| host.1 |
DNS lookup utility |
| hosts_to_named.1m |
Program used to translate host table to name server file format |
| lwresd.1m |
Lightweight resolver daemon |
| named-checkconf.1 |
The named configuration file syntax checking tool |
| named-checkzone.1 |
Zone validity checking tool |
| named-conf.4 |
Configuration file for named daemon |
| named.1m |
Internet domain name server |
| nslookup.1 |
Program used to query name servers interactively |
| nsupdate.1 |
Dynamic DNS update utility |
| rndc-confgen.1 |
The rndc key generation tool |
| rndc.1 |
Name server control utility |
| rndc.conf.4 |
The rndc configuration file |
| sig-named.1m |
Program used to send signals to the name
server |
* Not available in BIND 9.3.2.
The following documents provide additional information on installing and
configuring BIND:
The BIND 9.2.0 Release Notes is also distributed with the BIND 9.2.0
software depot. It is available
at:
/usr/example/bind/Releasenotes.pdf
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