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+
+<!-- Converted by db4-upgrade version 1.0 -->
+<book xmlns:db="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" version="5.0">
+ <info>
+ <title>BIND 9 Administrator Reference Manual</title>
+ <!-- insert copyright start -->
+ <copyright>
+ <year>2000</year>
+ <year>2001</year>
+ <year>2002</year>
+ <year>2003</year>
+ <year>2004</year>
+ <year>2005</year>
+ <year>2006</year>
+ <year>2007</year>
+ <year>2008</year>
+ <year>2009</year>
+ <year>2010</year>
+ <year>2011</year>
+ <year>2012</year>
+ <year>2013</year>
+ <year>2014</year>
+ <year>2015</year>
+ <year>2016</year>
+ <year>2017</year>
+ <year>2018</year>
+ <year>2019</year>
+ <holder>Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. ("ISC")</holder>
+ </copyright>
+ <!-- insert copyright end -->
+ <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="releaseinfo.xml"/>
+ </info>
+
+ <chapter xml:id="Bv9ARM.ch01"><info><title>Introduction</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ The Internet Domain Name System (<acronym>DNS</acronym>)
+ consists of the syntax
+ to specify the names of entities in the Internet in a hierarchical
+ manner, the rules used for delegating authority over names, and the
+ system implementation that actually maps names to Internet
+ addresses. <acronym>DNS</acronym> data is maintained in a
+ group of distributed
+ hierarchical databases.
+ </para>
+
+ <section xml:id="doc_scope"><info><title>Scope of Document</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ The Berkeley Internet Name Domain
+ (<acronym>BIND</acronym>) implements a
+ domain name server for a number of operating systems. This
+ document provides basic information about the installation and
+ care of the Internet Systems Consortium (<acronym>ISC</acronym>)
+ <acronym>BIND</acronym> version 9 software package for
+ system administrators.
+ </para>
+ <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="pkgversion.xml"/>
+ </section>
+
+ <section xml:id="organization"><info><title>Organization of This Document</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ In this document, <emphasis>Chapter 1</emphasis> introduces
+ the basic <acronym>DNS</acronym> and <acronym>BIND</acronym> concepts. <emphasis>Chapter 2</emphasis>
+ describes resource requirements for running <acronym>BIND</acronym> in various
+ environments. Information in <emphasis>Chapter 3</emphasis> is
+ <emphasis>task-oriented</emphasis> in its presentation and is
+ organized functionally, to aid in the process of installing the
+ <acronym>BIND</acronym> 9 software. The task-oriented
+ section is followed by
+ <emphasis>Chapter 4</emphasis>, which contains more advanced
+ concepts that the system administrator may need for implementing
+ certain options. <emphasis>Chapter 5</emphasis>
+ describes the <acronym>BIND</acronym> 9 lightweight
+ resolver. The contents of <emphasis>Chapter 6</emphasis> are
+ organized as in a reference manual to aid in the ongoing
+ maintenance of the software. <emphasis>Chapter 7</emphasis> addresses
+ security considerations, and
+ <emphasis>Chapter 8</emphasis> contains troubleshooting help. The
+ main body of the document is followed by several
+ <emphasis>appendices</emphasis> which contain useful reference
+ information, such as a <emphasis>bibliography</emphasis> and
+ historic information related to <acronym>BIND</acronym>
+ and the Domain Name
+ System.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+ <section xml:id="conventions"><info><title>Conventions Used in This Document</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ In this document, we use the following general typographic
+ conventions:
+ </para>
+
+ <informaltable>
+ <tgroup cols="2">
+ <colspec colname="1" colnum="1" colwidth="3.000in"/>
+ <colspec colname="2" colnum="2" colwidth="2.625in"/>
+ <tbody>
+ <row>
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ <emphasis>To describe:</emphasis>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ <emphasis>We use the style:</emphasis>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ a pathname, filename, URL, hostname,
+ mailing list name, or new term or concept
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ <filename>Fixed width</filename>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ literal user
+ input
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ <userinput>Fixed Width Bold</userinput>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ program output
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ <computeroutput>Fixed Width</computeroutput>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ </tbody>
+ </tgroup>
+ </informaltable>
+
+ <para>
+ The following conventions are used in descriptions of the
+ <acronym>BIND</acronym> configuration file:<informaltable colsep="0" frame="all" rowsep="0">
+ <tgroup cols="2" colsep="0" rowsep="0" tgroupstyle="2Level-table">
+ <colspec colname="1" colnum="1" colsep="0" colwidth="3.000in"/>
+ <colspec colname="2" colnum="2" colsep="0" colwidth="2.625in"/>
+ <tbody>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1" colsep="1" rowsep="1">
+ <para>
+ <emphasis>To describe:</emphasis>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2" rowsep="1">
+ <para>
+ <emphasis>We use the style:</emphasis>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1" colsep="1" rowsep="1">
+ <para>
+ keywords
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2" rowsep="1">
+ <para>
+ <literal>Fixed Width</literal>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1" colsep="1" rowsep="1">
+ <para>
+ variables
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2" rowsep="1">
+ <para>
+ <varname>Fixed Width</varname>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1" colsep="1">
+ <para>
+ Optional input
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ <optional>Text is enclosed in square brackets</optional>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ </tbody>
+ </tgroup>
+ </informaltable>
+ </para>
+ </section>
+ <section xml:id="dns_overview"><info><title>The Domain Name System (<acronym>DNS</acronym>)</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ The purpose of this document is to explain the installation
+ and upkeep of the <acronym>BIND</acronym> (Berkeley Internet
+ Name Domain) software package, and we
+ begin by reviewing the fundamentals of the Domain Name System
+ (<acronym>DNS</acronym>) as they relate to <acronym>BIND</acronym>.
+ </para>
+
+ <section xml:id="dns_fundamentals"><info><title>DNS Fundamentals</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical, distributed
+ database. It stores information for mapping Internet host names to
+ IP
+ addresses and vice versa, mail routing information, and other data
+ used by Internet applications.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Clients look up information in the DNS by calling a
+ <emphasis>resolver</emphasis> library, which sends queries to one or
+ more <emphasis>name servers</emphasis> and interprets the responses.
+ The <acronym>BIND</acronym> 9 software distribution
+ contains a name server, <command>named</command>, and a
+ resolver library, <command>liblwres</command>.
+ </para>
+
+ </section>
+ <section xml:id="domain_names"><info><title>Domains and Domain Names</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ The data stored in the DNS is identified by <emphasis>domain names</emphasis> that are organized as a tree according to
+ organizational or administrative boundaries. Each node of the tree,
+ called a <emphasis>domain</emphasis>, is given a label. The domain
+ name of the
+ node is the concatenation of all the labels on the path from the
+ node to the <emphasis>root</emphasis> node. This is represented
+ in written form as a string of labels listed from right to left and
+ separated by dots. A label need only be unique within its parent
+ domain.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ For example, a domain name for a host at the
+ company <emphasis>Example, Inc.</emphasis> could be
+ <literal>ourhost.example.com</literal>,
+ where <literal>com</literal> is the
+ top level domain to which
+ <literal>ourhost.example.com</literal> belongs,
+ <literal>example</literal> is
+ a subdomain of <literal>com</literal>, and
+ <literal>ourhost</literal> is the
+ name of the host.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ For administrative purposes, the name space is partitioned into
+ areas called <emphasis>zones</emphasis>, each starting at a node and
+ extending down to the leaf nodes or to nodes where other zones
+ start.
+ The data for each zone is stored in a <emphasis>name server</emphasis>, which answers queries about the zone using the
+ <emphasis>DNS protocol</emphasis>.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The data associated with each domain name is stored in the
+ form of <emphasis>resource records</emphasis> (<acronym>RR</acronym>s).
+ Some of the supported resource record types are described in
+ <xref linkend="types_of_resource_records_and_when_to_use_them"/>.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ For more detailed information about the design of the DNS and
+ the DNS protocol, please refer to the standards documents listed in
+ <xref linkend="rfcs"/>.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section xml:id="zones"><info><title>Zones</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ To properly operate a name server, it is important to understand
+ the difference between a <emphasis>zone</emphasis>
+ and a <emphasis>domain</emphasis>.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ As stated previously, a zone is a point of delegation in
+ the <acronym>DNS</acronym> tree. A zone consists of
+ those contiguous parts of the domain
+ tree for which a name server has complete information and over which
+ it has authority. It contains all domain names from a certain point
+ downward in the domain tree except those which are delegated to
+ other zones. A delegation point is marked by one or more
+ <emphasis>NS records</emphasis> in the
+ parent zone, which should be matched by equivalent NS records at
+ the root of the delegated zone.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ For instance, consider the <literal>example.com</literal>
+ domain which includes names
+ such as <literal>host.aaa.example.com</literal> and
+ <literal>host.bbb.example.com</literal> even though
+ the <literal>example.com</literal> zone includes
+ only delegations for the <literal>aaa.example.com</literal> and
+ <literal>bbb.example.com</literal> zones. A zone can
+ map
+ exactly to a single domain, but could also include only part of a
+ domain, the rest of which could be delegated to other
+ name servers. Every name in the <acronym>DNS</acronym>
+ tree is a
+ <emphasis>domain</emphasis>, even if it is
+ <emphasis>terminal</emphasis>, that is, has no
+ <emphasis>subdomains</emphasis>. Every subdomain is a domain and
+ every domain except the root is also a subdomain. The terminology is
+ not intuitive and we suggest that you read RFCs 1033, 1034 and 1035
+ to
+ gain a complete understanding of this difficult and subtle
+ topic.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Though <acronym>BIND</acronym> is called a "domain name
+ server",
+ it deals primarily in terms of zones. The master and slave
+ declarations in the <filename>named.conf</filename> file
+ specify
+ zones, not domains. When you ask some other site if it is willing to
+ be a slave server for your <emphasis>domain</emphasis>, you are
+ actually asking for slave service for some collection of zones.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section xml:id="auth_servers"><info><title>Authoritative Name Servers</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ Each zone is served by at least
+ one <emphasis>authoritative name server</emphasis>,
+ which contains the complete data for the zone.
+ To make the DNS tolerant of server and network failures,
+ most zones have two or more authoritative servers, on
+ different networks.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Responses from authoritative servers have the "authoritative
+ answer" (AA) bit set in the response packets. This makes them
+ easy to identify when debugging DNS configurations using tools like
+ <command>dig</command> (<xref linkend="diagnostic_tools"/>).
+ </para>
+
+ <section xml:id="primary_master"><info><title>The Primary Master</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ The authoritative server where the master copy of the zone
+ data is maintained is called the
+ <emphasis>primary master</emphasis> server, or simply the
+ <emphasis>primary</emphasis>. Typically it loads the zone
+ contents from some local file edited by humans or perhaps
+ generated mechanically from some other local file which is
+ edited by humans. This file is called the
+ <emphasis>zone file</emphasis> or
+ <emphasis>master file</emphasis>.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ In some cases, however, the master file may not be edited
+ by humans at all, but may instead be the result of
+ <emphasis>dynamic update</emphasis> operations.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section xml:id="slave_server"><info><title>Slave Servers</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ The other authoritative servers, the <emphasis>slave</emphasis>
+ servers (also known as <emphasis>secondary</emphasis> servers)
+ load the zone contents from another server using a replication
+ process known as a <emphasis>zone transfer</emphasis>.
+ Typically the data are transferred directly from the primary
+ master, but it is also possible to transfer it from another
+ slave. In other words, a slave server may itself act as a
+ master to a subordinate slave server.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Periodically, the slave server must send a refresh query to
+ determine whether the zone contents have been updated. This
+ is done by sending a query for the zone's SOA record and
+ checking whether the SERIAL field has been updated; if so,
+ a new transfer request is initiated. The timing of these
+ refresh queries is controlled by the SOA REFRESH and RETRY
+ fields, but can be overrridden with the
+ <command>max-refresh-time</command>,
+ <command>min-refresh-time</command>,
+ <command>max-retry-time</command>, and
+ <command>min-retry-time</command> options.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ If the zone data cannot be updated within the time specified
+ by the SOA EXPIRE option (up to a hard-coded maximum of
+ 24 weeks) then the slave zone expires and will no longer
+ respond to queries.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section xml:id="stealth_server"><info><title>Stealth Servers</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ Usually all of the zone's authoritative servers are listed in
+ NS records in the parent zone. These NS records constitute
+ a <emphasis>delegation</emphasis> of the zone from the parent.
+ The authoritative servers are also listed in the zone file itself,
+ at the <emphasis>top level</emphasis> or <emphasis>apex</emphasis>
+ of the zone. You can list servers in the zone's top-level NS
+ records that are not in the parent's NS delegation, but you cannot
+ list servers in the parent's delegation that are not present at
+ the zone's top level.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ A <emphasis>stealth server</emphasis> is a server that is
+ authoritative for a zone but is not listed in that zone's NS
+ records. Stealth servers can be used for keeping a local copy of
+ a
+ zone to speed up access to the zone's records or to make sure that
+ the
+ zone is available even if all the "official" servers for the zone
+ are
+ inaccessible.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ A configuration where the primary master server itself is a
+ stealth server is often referred to as a "hidden primary"
+ configuration. One use for this configuration is when the primary
+ master
+ is behind a firewall and therefore unable to communicate directly
+ with the outside world.
+ </para>
+
+ </section>
+
+ </section>
+ <section xml:id="cache_servers"><info><title>Caching Name Servers</title></info>
+
+ <!--
+ - Terminology here is inconsistent. Probably ought to
+ - convert to using "recursive name server" everywhere
+ - with just a note about "caching" terminology.
+ -->
+
+ <para>
+ The resolver libraries provided by most operating systems are
+ <emphasis>stub resolvers</emphasis>, meaning that they are not
+ capable of
+ performing the full DNS resolution process by themselves by talking
+ directly to the authoritative servers. Instead, they rely on a
+ local
+ name server to perform the resolution on their behalf. Such a
+ server
+ is called a <emphasis>recursive</emphasis> name server; it performs
+ <emphasis>recursive lookups</emphasis> for local clients.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ To improve performance, recursive servers cache the results of
+ the lookups they perform. Since the processes of recursion and
+ caching are intimately connected, the terms
+ <emphasis>recursive server</emphasis> and
+ <emphasis>caching server</emphasis> are often used synonymously.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The length of time for which a record may be retained in
+ the cache of a caching name server is controlled by the
+ Time To Live (TTL) field associated with each resource record.
+ </para>
+
+ <section xml:id="forwarder"><info><title>Forwarding</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ Even a caching name server does not necessarily perform
+ the complete recursive lookup itself. Instead, it can
+ <emphasis>forward</emphasis> some or all of the queries
+ that it cannot satisfy from its cache to another caching name
+ server,
+ commonly referred to as a <emphasis>forwarder</emphasis>.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ There may be one or more forwarders,
+ and they are queried in turn until the list is exhausted or an
+ answer
+ is found. Forwarders are typically used when you do not
+ wish all the servers at a given site to interact directly with the
+ rest of
+ the Internet servers. A typical scenario would involve a number
+ of internal <acronym>DNS</acronym> servers and an
+ Internet firewall. Servers unable
+ to pass packets through the firewall would forward to the server
+ that can do it, and that server would query the Internet <acronym>DNS</acronym> servers
+ on the internal server's behalf.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ </section>
+
+ <section xml:id="multi_role"><info><title>Name Servers in Multiple Roles</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ The <acronym>BIND</acronym> name server can
+ simultaneously act as
+ a master for some zones, a slave for other zones, and as a caching
+ (recursive) server for a set of local clients.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ However, since the functions of authoritative name service
+ and caching/recursive name service are logically separate, it is
+ often advantageous to run them on separate server machines.
+
+ A server that only provides authoritative name service
+ (an <emphasis>authoritative-only</emphasis> server) can run with
+ recursion disabled, improving reliability and security.
+
+ A server that is not authoritative for any zones and only provides
+ recursive service to local
+ clients (a <emphasis>caching-only</emphasis> server)
+ does not need to be reachable from the Internet at large and can
+ be placed inside a firewall.
+ </para>
+
+ </section>
+ </section>
+
+ </chapter>
+
+ <chapter xml:id="Bv9ARM.ch02"><info><title><acronym>BIND</acronym> Resource Requirements</title></info>
+
+ <section xml:id="hw_req"><info><title>Hardware requirements</title></info>
+ <para>
+ <acronym>DNS</acronym> hardware requirements have
+ traditionally been quite modest.
+ For many installations, servers that have been pensioned off from
+ active duty have performed admirably as <acronym>DNS</acronym> servers.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The DNSSEC features of <acronym>BIND</acronym> 9
+ may prove to be quite
+ CPU intensive however, so organizations that make heavy use of these
+ features may wish to consider larger systems for these applications.
+ <acronym>BIND</acronym> 9 is fully multithreaded, allowing
+ full utilization of
+ multiprocessor systems for installations that need it.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+ <section xml:id="cpu_req"><info><title>CPU Requirements</title></info>
+ <para>
+ CPU requirements for <acronym>BIND</acronym> 9 range from
+ i486-class machines
+ for serving of static zones without caching, to enterprise-class
+ machines if you intend to process many dynamic updates and DNSSEC
+ signed zones, serving many thousands of queries per second.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+ <section xml:id="mem_req"><info><title>Memory Requirements</title></info>
+ <para>
+ The memory of the server has to be large enough to fit the
+ cache and zones loaded off disk. The <command>max-cache-size</command>
+ option can be used to limit the amount of memory used by the cache,
+ at the expense of reducing cache hit rates and causing more <acronym>DNS</acronym>
+ traffic.
+ Additionally, if additional section caching
+ (<xref linkend="acache"/>) is enabled,
+ the <command>max-acache-size</command> option can be used to
+ limit the amount
+ of memory used by the mechanism.
+ It is still good practice to have enough memory to load
+ all zone and cache data into memory — unfortunately, the best
+ way
+ to determine this for a given installation is to watch the name server
+ in operation. After a few weeks the server process should reach
+ a relatively stable size where entries are expiring from the cache as
+ fast as they are being inserted.
+ </para>
+ <!--
+ - Add something here about leaving overhead for attacks?
+ - How much overhead? Percentage?
+ -->
+ </section>
+
+ <section xml:id="intensive_env"><info><title>Name Server Intensive Environment Issues</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ For name server intensive environments, there are two alternative
+ configurations that may be used. The first is where clients and
+ any second-level internal name servers query a main name server, which
+ has enough memory to build a large cache. This approach minimizes
+ the bandwidth used by external name lookups. The second alternative
+ is to set up second-level internal name servers to make queries
+ independently.
+ In this configuration, none of the individual machines needs to
+ have as much memory or CPU power as in the first alternative, but
+ this has the disadvantage of making many more external queries,
+ as none of the name servers share their cached data.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section xml:id="supported_os"><info><title>Supported Operating Systems</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ ISC <acronym>BIND</acronym> 9 compiles and runs on a large
+ number
+ of Unix-like operating systems and on
+ Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and 2008, and Windows XP and Vista.
+ For an up-to-date
+ list of supported systems, see the README file in the top level
+ directory
+ of the BIND 9 source distribution.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+ </chapter>
+
+ <chapter xml:id="Bv9ARM.ch03"><info><title>Name Server Configuration</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ In this chapter we provide some suggested configurations along
+ with guidelines for their use. We suggest reasonable values for
+ certain option settings.
+ </para>
+
+ <section xml:id="sample_configuration"><info><title>Sample Configurations</title></info>
+
+ <section xml:id="cache_only_sample"><info><title>A Caching-only Name Server</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ The following sample configuration is appropriate for a caching-only
+ name server for use by clients internal to a corporation. All
+ queries
+ from outside clients are refused using the <command>allow-query</command>
+ option. Alternatively, the same effect could be achieved using
+ suitable
+ firewall rules.
+ </para>
+
+<programlisting>
+// Two corporate subnets we wish to allow queries from.
+acl corpnets { 192.168.4.0/24; 192.168.7.0/24; };
+options {
+ // Working directory
+ directory "/etc/namedb";
+
+ allow-query { corpnets; };
+};
+// Provide a reverse mapping for the loopback
+// address 127.0.0.1
+zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" {
+ type master;
+ file "localhost.rev";
+ notify no;
+};
+</programlisting>
+
+ </section>
+
+ <section xml:id="auth_only_sample"><info><title>An Authoritative-only Name Server</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ This sample configuration is for an authoritative-only server
+ that is the master server for "<filename>example.com</filename>"
+ and a slave for the subdomain "<filename>eng.example.com</filename>".
+ </para>
+
+<programlisting>
+options {
+ // Working directory
+ directory "/etc/namedb";
+ // Do not allow access to cache
+ allow-query-cache { none; };
+ // This is the default
+ allow-query { any; };
+ // Do not provide recursive service
+ recursion no;
+};
+
+// Provide a reverse mapping for the loopback
+// address 127.0.0.1
+zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" {
+ type master;
+ file "localhost.rev";
+ notify no;
+};
+// We are the master server for example.com
+zone "example.com" {
+ type master;
+ file "example.com.db";
+ // IP addresses of slave servers allowed to
+ // transfer example.com
+ allow-transfer {
+ 192.168.4.14;
+ 192.168.5.53;
+ };
+};
+// We are a slave server for eng.example.com
+zone "eng.example.com" {
+ type slave;
+ file "eng.example.com.bk";
+ // IP address of eng.example.com master server
+ masters { 192.168.4.12; };
+};
+</programlisting>
+
+ </section>
+ </section>
+
+ <section xml:id="load_balancing"><info><title>Load Balancing</title></info>
+
+ <!--
+ - Add explanation of why load balancing is fragile at best
+ - and completely pointless in the general case.
+ -->
+
+ <para>
+ A primitive form of load balancing can be achieved in
+ the <acronym>DNS</acronym> by using multiple records
+ (such as multiple A records) for one name.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ For example, if you have three WWW servers with network addresses
+ of 10.0.0.1, 10.0.0.2 and 10.0.0.3, a set of records such as the
+ following means that clients will connect to each machine one third
+ of the time:
+ </para>
+
+ <informaltable colsep="0" rowsep="0">
+ <tgroup cols="5" colsep="0" rowsep="0" tgroupstyle="2Level-table">
+ <colspec colname="1" colnum="1" colsep="0" colwidth="0.875in"/>
+ <colspec colname="2" colnum="2" colsep="0" colwidth="0.500in"/>
+ <colspec colname="3" colnum="3" colsep="0" colwidth="0.750in"/>
+ <colspec colname="4" colnum="4" colsep="0" colwidth="0.750in"/>
+ <colspec colname="5" colnum="5" colsep="0" colwidth="2.028in"/>
+ <tbody>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ Name
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ TTL
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ CLASS
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="4">
+ <para>
+ TYPE
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="5">
+ <para>
+ Resource Record (RR) Data
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ <literal>www</literal>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ <literal>600</literal>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ <literal>IN</literal>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="4">
+ <para>
+ <literal>A</literal>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="5">
+ <para>
+ <literal>10.0.0.1</literal>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para/>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ <literal>600</literal>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ <literal>IN</literal>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="4">
+ <para>
+ <literal>A</literal>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="5">
+ <para>
+ <literal>10.0.0.2</literal>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para/>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ <literal>600</literal>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ <literal>IN</literal>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="4">
+ <para>
+ <literal>A</literal>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="5">
+ <para>
+ <literal>10.0.0.3</literal>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ </tbody>
+ </tgroup>
+ </informaltable>
+ <para>
+ When a resolver queries for these records, <acronym>BIND</acronym> will rotate
+ them and respond to the query with the records in a different
+ order. In the example above, clients will randomly receive
+ records in the order 1, 2, 3; 2, 3, 1; and 3, 1, 2. Most clients
+ will use the first record returned and discard the rest.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ For more detail on ordering responses, check the
+ <command>rrset-order</command> sub-statement in the
+ <command>options</command> statement, see
+ <xref endterm="rrset_ordering_title" linkend="rrset_ordering"/>.
+ </para>
+
+ </section>
+
+ <section xml:id="ns_operations"><info><title>Name Server Operations</title></info>
+
+ <section xml:id="tools"><info><title>Tools for Use With the Name Server Daemon</title></info>
+ <para>
+ This section describes several indispensable diagnostic,
+ administrative and monitoring tools available to the system
+ administrator for controlling and debugging the name server
+ daemon.
+ </para>
+ <section xml:id="diagnostic_tools"><info><title>Diagnostic Tools</title></info>
+ <para>
+ The <command>dig</command>, <command>host</command>, and
+ <command>nslookup</command> programs are all command
+ line tools
+ for manually querying name servers. They differ in style and
+ output format.
+ </para>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term xml:id="dig"><command>dig</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <command>dig</command>
+ is the most versatile and complete of these lookup tools.
+ It has two modes: simple interactive
+ mode for a single query, and batch mode which executes a
+ query for
+ each in a list of several query lines. All query options are
+ accessible
+ from the command line.
+ </para>
+ <cmdsynopsis label="Usage" sepchar=" ">
+ <command>dig</command>
+ <arg choice="opt" rep="norepeat">@<replaceable>server</replaceable></arg>
+ <arg choice="plain" rep="norepeat"><replaceable>domain</replaceable></arg>
+ <arg choice="opt" rep="norepeat"><replaceable>query-type</replaceable></arg>
+ <arg choice="opt" rep="norepeat"><replaceable>query-class</replaceable></arg>
+ <arg choice="opt" rep="norepeat">+<replaceable>query-option</replaceable></arg>
+ <arg choice="opt" rep="norepeat">-<replaceable>dig-option</replaceable></arg>
+ <arg choice="opt" rep="norepeat">%<replaceable>comment</replaceable></arg>
+ </cmdsynopsis>
+ <para>
+ The usual simple use of <command>dig</command> will take the form
+ </para>
+ <simpara>
+ <command>dig @server domain query-type query-class</command>
+ </simpara>
+ <para>
+ For more information and a list of available commands and
+ options, see the <command>dig</command> man
+ page.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>host</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The <command>host</command> utility emphasizes
+ simplicity
+ and ease of use. By default, it converts
+ between host names and Internet addresses, but its
+ functionality
+ can be extended with the use of options.
+ </para>
+ <cmdsynopsis label="Usage" sepchar=" ">
+ <command>host</command>
+ <arg choice="opt" rep="norepeat">-aCdlnrsTwv</arg>
+ <arg choice="opt" rep="norepeat">-c <replaceable>class</replaceable></arg>
+ <arg choice="opt" rep="norepeat">-N <replaceable>ndots</replaceable></arg>
+ <arg choice="opt" rep="norepeat">-t <replaceable>type</replaceable></arg>
+ <arg choice="opt" rep="norepeat">-W <replaceable>timeout</replaceable></arg>
+ <arg choice="opt" rep="norepeat">-R <replaceable>retries</replaceable></arg>
+ <arg choice="opt" rep="norepeat">-m <replaceable>flag</replaceable></arg>
+ <arg choice="opt" rep="norepeat">-4</arg>
+ <arg choice="opt" rep="norepeat">-6</arg>
+ <arg choice="plain" rep="norepeat"><replaceable>hostname</replaceable></arg>
+ <arg choice="opt" rep="norepeat"><replaceable>server</replaceable></arg>
+ </cmdsynopsis>
+ <para>
+ For more information and a list of available commands and
+ options, see the <command>host</command> man
+ page.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>nslookup</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><command>nslookup</command>
+ has two modes: interactive and
+ non-interactive. Interactive mode allows the user to
+ query name servers for information about various
+ hosts and domains or to print a list of hosts in a
+ domain. Non-interactive mode is used to print just
+ the name and requested information for a host or
+ domain.
+ </para>
+ <cmdsynopsis label="Usage" sepchar=" ">
+ <command>nslookup</command>
+ <arg rep="repeat" choice="opt">-option</arg>
+ <group choice="opt" rep="norepeat">
+ <arg choice="opt" rep="norepeat"><replaceable>host-to-find</replaceable></arg>
+ <arg choice="opt" rep="norepeat">- <arg choice="opt" rep="norepeat">server</arg></arg>
+ </group>
+ </cmdsynopsis>
+ <para>
+ Interactive mode is entered when no arguments are given (the
+ default name server will be used) or when the first argument
+ is a
+ hyphen (`-') and the second argument is the host name or
+ Internet address
+ of a name server.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Non-interactive mode is used when the name or Internet
+ address
+ of the host to be looked up is given as the first argument.
+ The
+ optional second argument specifies the host name or address
+ of a name server.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Due to its arcane user interface and frequently inconsistent
+ behavior, we do not recommend the use of <command>nslookup</command>.
+ Use <command>dig</command> instead.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+ </section>
+
+ <section xml:id="admin_tools"><info><title>Administrative Tools</title></info>
+ <para>
+ Administrative tools play an integral part in the management
+ of a server.
+ </para>
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry xml:id="named-checkconf" xreflabel="Named Configuration Checking application">
+
+ <term><command>named-checkconf</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The <command>named-checkconf</command> program
+ checks the syntax of a <filename>named.conf</filename> file.
+ </para>
+ <cmdsynopsis label="Usage" sepchar=" ">
+ <command>named-checkconf</command>
+ <arg choice="opt" rep="norepeat">-jvz</arg>
+ <arg choice="opt" rep="norepeat">-t <replaceable>directory</replaceable></arg>
+ <arg choice="opt" rep="norepeat"><replaceable>filename</replaceable></arg>
+ </cmdsynopsis>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry xml:id="named-checkzone" xreflabel="Zone Checking application">
+
+ <term><command>named-checkzone</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The <command>named-checkzone</command> program
+ checks a master file for
+ syntax and consistency.
+ </para>
+ <cmdsynopsis label="Usage" sepchar=" ">
+ <command>named-checkzone</command>
+ <arg choice="opt" rep="norepeat">-djqvD</arg>
+ <arg choice="opt" rep="norepeat">-c <replaceable>class</replaceable></arg>
+ <arg choice="opt" rep="norepeat">-o <replaceable>output</replaceable></arg>
+ <arg choice="opt" rep="norepeat">-t <replaceable>directory</replaceable></arg>
+ <arg choice="opt" rep="norepeat">-w <replaceable>directory</replaceable></arg>
+ <arg choice="opt" rep="norepeat">-k <replaceable>(ignore|warn|fail)</replaceable></arg>
+ <arg choice="opt" rep="norepeat">-n <replaceable>(ignore|warn|fail)</replaceable></arg>
+ <arg choice="opt" rep="norepeat">-W <replaceable>(ignore|warn)</replaceable></arg>
+ <arg choice="plain" rep="norepeat"><replaceable>zone</replaceable></arg>
+ <arg choice="opt" rep="norepeat"><replaceable>filename</replaceable></arg>
+ </cmdsynopsis>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry xml:id="named-compilezone" xreflabel="Zone Compilation application">
+ <term><command>named-compilezone</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Similar to <command>named-checkzone,</command> but
+ it always dumps the zone content to a specified file
+ (typically in a different format).
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry xml:id="rndc" xreflabel="Remote Name Daemon Control application">
+
+ <term><command>rndc</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The remote name daemon control
+ (<command>rndc</command>) program allows the
+ system
+ administrator to control the operation of a name server.
+ Since <acronym>BIND</acronym> 9.2, <command>rndc</command>
+ supports all the commands of the BIND 8 <command>ndc</command>
+ utility except <command>ndc start</command> and
+ <command>ndc restart</command>, which were also
+ not supported in <command>ndc</command>'s
+ channel mode.
+ If you run <command>rndc</command> without any
+ options
+ it will display a usage message as follows:
+ </para>
+ <cmdsynopsis label="Usage" sepchar=" ">
+ <command>rndc</command>
+ <arg choice="opt" rep="norepeat">-c <replaceable>config</replaceable></arg>
+ <arg choice="opt" rep="norepeat">-s <replaceable>server</replaceable></arg>
+ <arg choice="opt" rep="norepeat">-p <replaceable>port</replaceable></arg>
+ <arg choice="opt" rep="norepeat">-y <replaceable>key</replaceable></arg>
+ <arg choice="plain" rep="norepeat"><replaceable>command</replaceable></arg>
+ <arg rep="repeat" choice="opt"><replaceable>command</replaceable></arg>
+ </cmdsynopsis>
+
+ <para>See <xref linkend="man.rndc"/> for details of
+ the available <command>rndc</command> commands.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ <command>rndc</command> requires a configuration file,
+ since all
+ communication with the server is authenticated with
+ digital signatures that rely on a shared secret, and
+ there is no way to provide that secret other than with a
+ configuration file. The default location for the
+ <command>rndc</command> configuration file is
+ <filename>/etc/rndc.conf</filename>, but an
+ alternate
+ location can be specified with the <option>-c</option>
+ option. If the configuration file is not found,
+ <command>rndc</command> will also look in
+ <filename>/etc/rndc.key</filename> (or whatever
+ <varname>sysconfdir</varname> was defined when
+ the <acronym>BIND</acronym> build was
+ configured).
+ The <filename>rndc.key</filename> file is
+ generated by
+ running <command>rndc-confgen -a</command> as
+ described in
+ <xref linkend="controls_statement_definition_and_usage"/>.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The format of the configuration file is similar to
+ that of <filename>named.conf</filename>, but
+ limited to
+ only four statements, the <command>options</command>,
+ <command>key</command>, <command>server</command> and
+ <command>include</command>
+ statements. These statements are what associate the
+ secret keys to the servers with which they are meant to
+ be shared. The order of statements is not
+ significant.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The <command>options</command> statement has
+ three clauses:
+ <command>default-server</command>, <command>default-key</command>,
+ and <command>default-port</command>.
+ <command>default-server</command> takes a
+ host name or address argument and represents the server
+ that will
+ be contacted if no <option>-s</option>
+ option is provided on the command line.
+ <command>default-key</command> takes
+ the name of a key as its argument, as defined by a <command>key</command> statement.
+ <command>default-port</command> specifies the
+ port to which
+ <command>rndc</command> should connect if no
+ port is given on the command line or in a
+ <command>server</command> statement.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The <command>key</command> statement defines a
+ key to be used
+ by <command>rndc</command> when authenticating
+ with
+ <command>named</command>. Its syntax is
+ identical to the
+ <command>key</command> statement in <filename>named.conf</filename>.
+ The keyword <userinput>key</userinput> is
+ followed by a key name, which must be a valid
+ domain name, though it need not actually be hierarchical;
+ thus,
+ a string like "<userinput>rndc_key</userinput>" is a valid
+ name.
+ The <command>key</command> statement has two
+ clauses:
+ <command>algorithm</command> and <command>secret</command>.
+ While the configuration parser will accept any string as the
+ argument
+ to algorithm, currently only the strings
+ "<userinput>hmac-md5</userinput>",
+ "<userinput>hmac-sha1</userinput>",
+ "<userinput>hmac-sha224</userinput>",
+ "<userinput>hmac-sha256</userinput>",
+ "<userinput>hmac-sha384</userinput>"
+ and "<userinput>hmac-sha512</userinput>"
+ have any meaning. The secret is a Base64 encoded string
+ as specified in RFC 3548.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The <command>server</command> statement
+ associates a key
+ defined using the <command>key</command>
+ statement with a server.
+ The keyword <userinput>server</userinput> is followed by a
+ host name or address. The <command>server</command> statement
+ has two clauses: <command>key</command> and <command>port</command>.
+ The <command>key</command> clause specifies the
+ name of the key
+ to be used when communicating with this server, and the
+ <command>port</command> clause can be used to
+ specify the port <command>rndc</command> should
+ connect
+ to on the server.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ A sample minimal configuration file is as follows:
+ </para>
+
+<programlisting>
+key rndc_key {
+ algorithm "hmac-sha256";
+ secret
+ "c3Ryb25nIGVub3VnaCBmb3IgYSBtYW4gYnV0IG1hZGUgZm9yIGEgd29tYW4K";
+};
+options {
+ default-server 127.0.0.1;
+ default-key rndc_key;
+};
+</programlisting>
+
+ <para>
+ This file, if installed as <filename>/etc/rndc.conf</filename>,
+ would allow the command:
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ <prompt>$ </prompt><userinput>rndc reload</userinput>
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ to connect to 127.0.0.1 port 953 and cause the name server
+ to reload, if a name server on the local machine were
+ running with
+ following controls statements:
+ </para>
+
+<programlisting>
+controls {
+ inet 127.0.0.1
+ allow { localhost; } keys { rndc_key; };
+};
+</programlisting>
+
+ <para>
+ and it had an identical key statement for
+ <literal>rndc_key</literal>.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Running the <command>rndc-confgen</command>
+ program will
+ conveniently create a <filename>rndc.conf</filename>
+ file for you, and also display the
+ corresponding <command>controls</command>
+ statement that you need to
+ add to <filename>named.conf</filename>.
+ Alternatively,
+ you can run <command>rndc-confgen -a</command>
+ to set up
+ a <filename>rndc.key</filename> file and not
+ modify
+ <filename>named.conf</filename> at all.
+ </para>
+
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+
+ </section>
+ </section>
+
+ <section xml:id="signals"><info><title>Signals</title></info>
+ <para>
+ Certain UNIX signals cause the name server to take specific
+ actions, as described in the following table. These signals can
+ be sent using the <command>kill</command> command.
+ </para>
+ <informaltable frame="all">
+ <tgroup cols="2">
+ <colspec colname="1" colnum="1" colsep="0" colwidth="1.125in"/>
+ <colspec colname="2" colnum="2" colsep="0" colwidth="4.000in"/>
+ <tbody>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>SIGHUP</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Causes the server to read <filename>named.conf</filename> and
+ reload the database.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>SIGTERM</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Causes the server to clean up and exit.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>SIGINT</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Causes the server to clean up and exit.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ </tbody>
+ </tgroup>
+ </informaltable>
+ </section>
+ </section>
+ </chapter>
+
+ <chapter xml:id="Bv9ARM.ch04"><info><title>Advanced DNS Features</title></info>
+
+ <section xml:id="notify"><info><title>Notify</title></info>
+ <para>
+ <acronym>DNS</acronym> NOTIFY is a mechanism that allows master
+ servers to notify their slave servers of changes to a zone's data. In
+ response to a <command>NOTIFY</command> from a master server, the
+ slave will check to see that its version of the zone is the
+ current version and, if not, initiate a zone transfer.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ For more information about <acronym>DNS</acronym>
+ <command>NOTIFY</command>, see the description of the
+ <command>notify</command> option in <xref linkend="boolean_options"/> and
+ the description of the zone option <command>also-notify</command> in
+ <xref linkend="zone_transfers"/>. The <command>NOTIFY</command>
+ protocol is specified in RFC 1996.
+ </para>
+
+ <note><simpara>
+ As a slave zone can also be a master to other slaves, <command>named</command>,
+ by default, sends <command>NOTIFY</command> messages for every zone
+ it loads. Specifying <command>notify master-only;</command> will
+ cause <command>named</command> to only send <command>NOTIFY</command> for master
+ zones that it loads.
+ </simpara></note>
+
+ </section>
+
+ <section xml:id="dynamic_update"><info><title>Dynamic Update</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ Dynamic Update is a method for adding, replacing or deleting
+ records in a master server by sending it a special form of DNS
+ messages. The format and meaning of these messages is specified
+ in RFC 2136.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Dynamic update is enabled by including an
+ <command>allow-update</command> or an <command>update-policy</command>
+ clause in the <command>zone</command> statement.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ If the zone's <command>update-policy</command> is set to
+ <userinput>local</userinput>, updates to the zone
+ will be permitted for the key <varname>local-ddns</varname>,
+ which will be generated by <command>named</command> at startup.
+ See <xref linkend="dynamic_update_policies"/> for more details.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Dynamic updates using Kerberos signed requests can be made
+ using the TKEY/GSS protocol by setting either the
+ <command>tkey-gssapi-keytab</command> option, or alternatively
+ by setting both the <command>tkey-gssapi-credential</command>
+ and <command>tkey-domain</command> options. Once enabled,
+ Kerberos signed requests will be matched against the update
+ policies for the zone, using the Kerberos principal as the
+ signer for the request.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Updating of secure zones (zones using DNSSEC) follows RFC
+ 3007: RRSIG, NSEC and NSEC3 records affected by updates are
+ automatically regenerated by the server using an online
+ zone key. Update authorization is based on transaction
+ signatures and an explicit server policy.
+ </para>
+
+ <section xml:id="journal"><info><title>The journal file</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ All changes made to a zone using dynamic update are stored
+ in the zone's journal file. This file is automatically created
+ by the server when the first dynamic update takes place.
+ The name of the journal file is formed by appending the extension
+ <filename>.jnl</filename> to the name of the
+ corresponding zone
+ file unless specifically overridden. The journal file is in a
+ binary format and should not be edited manually.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The server will also occasionally write ("dump")
+ the complete contents of the updated zone to its zone file.
+ This is not done immediately after
+ each dynamic update, because that would be too slow when a large
+ zone is updated frequently. Instead, the dump is delayed by
+ up to 15 minutes, allowing additional updates to take place.
+ During the dump process, transient files will be created
+ with the extensions <filename>.jnw</filename> and
+ <filename>.jbk</filename>; under ordinary circumstances, these
+ will be removed when the dump is complete, and can be safely
+ ignored.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ When a server is restarted after a shutdown or crash, it will replay
+ the journal file to incorporate into the zone any updates that
+ took
+ place after the last zone dump.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Changes that result from incoming incremental zone transfers are
+ also
+ journalled in a similar way.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The zone files of dynamic zones cannot normally be edited by
+ hand because they are not guaranteed to contain the most recent
+ dynamic changes — those are only in the journal file.
+ The only way to ensure that the zone file of a dynamic zone
+ is up to date is to run <command>rndc stop</command>.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ If you have to make changes to a dynamic zone
+ manually, the following procedure will work:
+ Disable dynamic updates to the zone using
+ <command>rndc freeze <replaceable>zone</replaceable></command>.
+ This will update the zone's master file with the changes
+ stored in its <filename>.jnl</filename> file.
+ Edit the zone file. Run
+ <command>rndc thaw <replaceable>zone</replaceable></command>
+ to reload the changed zone and re-enable dynamic updates.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ <command>rndc sync <replaceable>zone</replaceable></command>
+ will update the zone file with changes from the journal file
+ without stopping dynamic updates; this may be useful for viewing
+ the current zone state. To remove the <filename>.jnl</filename>
+ file after updating the zone file, use
+ <command>rndc sync -clean</command>.
+ </para>
+
+ </section>
+
+ </section>
+
+ <section xml:id="incremental_zone_transfers"><info><title>Incremental Zone Transfers (IXFR)</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ The incremental zone transfer (IXFR) protocol is a way for
+ slave servers to transfer only changed data, instead of having to
+ transfer the entire zone. The IXFR protocol is specified in RFC
+ 1995. See <xref linkend="proposed_standards"/>.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ When acting as a master, <acronym>BIND</acronym> 9
+ supports IXFR for those zones
+ where the necessary change history information is available. These
+ include master zones maintained by dynamic update and slave zones
+ whose data was obtained by IXFR. For manually maintained master
+ zones, and for slave zones obtained by performing a full zone
+ transfer (AXFR), IXFR is supported only if the option
+ <command>ixfr-from-differences</command> is set
+ to <userinput>yes</userinput>.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ When acting as a slave, <acronym>BIND</acronym> 9 will
+ attempt to use IXFR unless
+ it is explicitly disabled. For more information about disabling
+ IXFR, see the description of the <command>request-ixfr</command> clause
+ of the <command>server</command> statement.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section xml:id="split_dns"><info><title>Split DNS</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ Setting up different views, or visibility, of the DNS space to
+ internal and external resolvers is usually referred to as a
+ <emphasis>Split DNS</emphasis> setup. There are several
+ reasons an organization would want to set up its DNS this way.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ One common reason for setting up a DNS system this way is
+ to hide "internal" DNS information from "external" clients on the
+ Internet. There is some debate as to whether or not this is actually
+ useful.
+ Internal DNS information leaks out in many ways (via email headers,
+ for example) and most savvy "attackers" can find the information
+ they need using other means.
+ However, since listing addresses of internal servers that
+ external clients cannot possibly reach can result in
+ connection delays and other annoyances, an organization may
+ choose to use a Split DNS to present a consistent view of itself
+ to the outside world.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Another common reason for setting up a Split DNS system is
+ to allow internal networks that are behind filters or in RFC 1918
+ space (reserved IP space, as documented in RFC 1918) to resolve DNS
+ on the Internet. Split DNS can also be used to allow mail from outside
+ back in to the internal network.
+ </para>
+ <section xml:id="split_dns_sample"><info><title>Example split DNS setup</title></info>
+ <para>
+ Let's say a company named <emphasis>Example, Inc.</emphasis>
+ (<literal>example.com</literal>)
+ has several corporate sites that have an internal network with
+ reserved
+ Internet Protocol (IP) space and an external demilitarized zone (DMZ),
+ or "outside" section of a network, that is available to the public.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <emphasis>Example, Inc.</emphasis> wants its internal clients
+ to be able to resolve external hostnames and to exchange mail with
+ people on the outside. The company also wants its internal resolvers
+ to have access to certain internal-only zones that are not available
+ at all outside of the internal network.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ In order to accomplish this, the company will set up two sets
+ of name servers. One set will be on the inside network (in the
+ reserved
+ IP space) and the other set will be on bastion hosts, which are
+ "proxy"
+ hosts that can talk to both sides of its network, in the DMZ.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The internal servers will be configured to forward all queries,
+ except queries for <filename>site1.internal</filename>, <filename>site2.internal</filename>, <filename>site1.example.com</filename>,
+ and <filename>site2.example.com</filename>, to the servers
+ in the
+ DMZ. These internal servers will have complete sets of information
+ for <filename>site1.example.com</filename>, <filename>site2.example.com</filename>, <filename>site1.internal</filename>,
+ and <filename>site2.internal</filename>.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ To protect the <filename>site1.internal</filename> and <filename>site2.internal</filename> domains,
+ the internal name servers must be configured to disallow all queries
+ to these domains from any external hosts, including the bastion
+ hosts.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The external servers, which are on the bastion hosts, will
+ be configured to serve the "public" version of the <filename>site1</filename> and <filename>site2.example.com</filename> zones.
+ This could include things such as the host records for public servers
+ (<filename>www.example.com</filename> and <filename>ftp.example.com</filename>),
+ and mail exchange (MX) records (<filename>a.mx.example.com</filename> and <filename>b.mx.example.com</filename>).
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ In addition, the public <filename>site1</filename> and <filename>site2.example.com</filename> zones
+ should have special MX records that contain wildcard (`*') records
+ pointing to the bastion hosts. This is needed because external mail
+ servers do not have any other way of looking up how to deliver mail
+ to those internal hosts. With the wildcard records, the mail will
+ be delivered to the bastion host, which can then forward it on to
+ internal hosts.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Here's an example of a wildcard MX record:
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>* IN MX 10 external1.example.com.</programlisting>
+ <para>
+ Now that they accept mail on behalf of anything in the internal
+ network, the bastion hosts will need to know how to deliver mail
+ to internal hosts. In order for this to work properly, the resolvers
+ on
+ the bastion hosts will need to be configured to point to the internal
+ name servers for DNS resolution.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Queries for internal hostnames will be answered by the internal
+ servers, and queries for external hostnames will be forwarded back
+ out to the DNS servers on the bastion hosts.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ In order for all this to work properly, internal clients will
+ need to be configured to query <emphasis>only</emphasis> the internal
+ name servers for DNS queries. This could also be enforced via
+ selective
+ filtering on the network.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ If everything has been set properly, <emphasis>Example, Inc.</emphasis>'s
+ internal clients will now be able to:
+ </para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <simpara>
+ Look up any hostnames in the <literal>site1</literal>
+ and
+ <literal>site2.example.com</literal> zones.
+ </simpara>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <simpara>
+ Look up any hostnames in the <literal>site1.internal</literal> and
+ <literal>site2.internal</literal> domains.
+ </simpara>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <simpara>Look up any hostnames on the Internet.</simpara>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <simpara>Exchange mail with both internal and external people.</simpara>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ <para>
+ Hosts on the Internet will be able to:
+ </para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <simpara>
+ Look up any hostnames in the <literal>site1</literal>
+ and
+ <literal>site2.example.com</literal> zones.
+ </simpara>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <simpara>
+ Exchange mail with anyone in the <literal>site1</literal> and
+ <literal>site2.example.com</literal> zones.
+ </simpara>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+
+ <para>
+ Here is an example configuration for the setup we just
+ described above. Note that this is only configuration information;
+ for information on how to configure your zone files, see <xref linkend="sample_configuration"/>.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Internal DNS server config:
+ </para>
+
+<programlisting>
+
+acl internals { 172.16.72.0/24; 192.168.1.0/24; };
+
+acl externals { <varname>bastion-ips-go-here</varname>; };
+
+options {
+ ...
+ ...
+ forward only;
+ // forward to external servers
+ forwarders {
+ <varname>bastion-ips-go-here</varname>;
+ };
+ // sample allow-transfer (no one)
+ allow-transfer { none; };
+ // restrict query access
+ allow-query { internals; externals; };
+ // restrict recursion
+ allow-recursion { internals; };
+ ...
+ ...
+};
+
+// sample master zone
+zone "site1.example.com" {
+ type master;
+ file "m/site1.example.com";
+ // do normal iterative resolution (do not forward)
+ forwarders { };
+ allow-query { internals; externals; };
+ allow-transfer { internals; };
+};
+
+// sample slave zone
+zone "site2.example.com" {
+ type slave;
+ file "s/site2.example.com";
+ masters { 172.16.72.3; };
+ forwarders { };
+ allow-query { internals; externals; };
+ allow-transfer { internals; };
+};
+
+zone "site1.internal" {
+ type master;
+ file "m/site1.internal";
+ forwarders { };
+ allow-query { internals; };
+ allow-transfer { internals; }
+};
+
+zone "site2.internal" {
+ type slave;
+ file "s/site2.internal";
+ masters { 172.16.72.3; };
+ forwarders { };
+ allow-query { internals };
+ allow-transfer { internals; }
+};
+</programlisting>
+
+ <para>
+ External (bastion host) DNS server config:
+ </para>
+
+<programlisting>
+acl internals { 172.16.72.0/24; 192.168.1.0/24; };
+
+acl externals { bastion-ips-go-here; };
+
+options {
+ ...
+ ...
+ // sample allow-transfer (no one)
+ allow-transfer { none; };
+ // default query access
+ allow-query { any; };
+ // restrict cache access
+ allow-query-cache { internals; externals; };
+ // restrict recursion
+ allow-recursion { internals; externals; };
+ ...
+ ...
+};
+
+// sample slave zone
+zone "site1.example.com" {
+ type master;
+ file "m/site1.foo.com";
+ allow-transfer { internals; externals; };
+};
+
+zone "site2.example.com" {
+ type slave;
+ file "s/site2.foo.com";
+ masters { another_bastion_host_maybe; };
+ allow-transfer { internals; externals; }
+};
+</programlisting>
+
+ <para>
+ In the <filename>resolv.conf</filename> (or equivalent) on
+ the bastion host(s):
+ </para>
+
+<programlisting>
+search ...
+nameserver 172.16.72.2
+nameserver 172.16.72.3
+nameserver 172.16.72.4
+</programlisting>
+
+ </section>
+ </section>
+ <section xml:id="tsig"><info><title>TSIG</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ TSIG (Transaction SIGnatures) is a mechanism for authenticating DNS
+ messages, originally specified in RFC 2845. It allows DNS messages
+ to be cryptographically signed using a shared secret. TSIG can
+ be used in any DNS transaction, as a way to restrict access to
+ certain server functions (e.g., recursive queries) to authorized
+ clients when IP-based access control is insufficient or needs to
+ be overridden, or as a way to ensure message authenticity when it
+ is critical to the integrity of the server, such as with dynamic
+ UPDATE messages or zone transfers from a master to a slave server.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ This is a guide to setting up TSIG in <acronym>BIND</acronym>.
+ It describes the configuration syntax and the process of creating
+ TSIG keys.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <command>named</command> supports TSIG for server-to-server
+ communication, and some of the tools included with
+ <acronym>BIND</acronym> support it for sending messages to
+ <command>named</command>:
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <xref linkend="man.nsupdate"/> supports TSIG via the
+ <option>-k</option>, <option>-l</option> and
+ <option>-y</option> command line options, or via
+ the <command>key</command> command when running
+ interactively.
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <xref linkend="man.dig"/> supports TSIG via the
+ <option>-k</option> and <option>-y</option> command
+ line options.
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </para>
+
+ <section><info><title>Generating a Shared Key</title></info>
+ <para>
+ TSIG keys can be generated using the <command>tsig-keygen</command>
+ command; the output of the command is a <command>key</command> directive
+ suitable for inclusion in <filename>named.conf</filename>. The
+ key name, algorithm and size can be specified by command line parameters;
+ the defaults are "tsig-key", HMAC-SHA256, and 256 bits, respectively.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Any string which is a valid DNS name can be used as a key name.
+ For example, a key to be shared between servers called
+ <emphasis>host1</emphasis> and <emphasis>host2</emphasis> could
+ be called "host1-host2.", and this key could be generated using:
+ </para>
+<programlisting>
+ $ tsig-keygen host1-host2. > host1-host2.key
+</programlisting>
+ <para>
+ This key may then be copied to both hosts. The key name and secret
+ must be identical on both hosts.
+ (Note: copying a shared secret from one server to another is beyond
+ the scope of the DNS. A secure transport mechanism should be used:
+ secure FTP, SSL, ssh, telephone, encrypted email, etc.)
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <command>tsig-keygen</command> can also be run as
+ <command>ddns-confgen</command>, in which case its output includes
+ additional configuration text for setting up dynamic DNS in
+ <command>named</command>. See <xref linkend="man.ddns-confgen"/>
+ for details.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section><info><title>Loading A New Key</title></info>
+ <para>
+ For a key shared between servers called
+ <emphasis>host1</emphasis> and <emphasis>host2</emphasis>,
+ the following could be added to each server's
+ <filename>named.conf</filename> file:
+ </para>
+<programlisting>
+key "host1-host2." {
+ algorithm hmac-sha256;
+ secret "DAopyf1mhCbFVZw7pgmNPBoLUq8wEUT7UuPoLENP2HY=";
+};
+</programlisting>
+ <para>
+ (This is the same key generated above using
+ <command>tsig-keygen</command>.)
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Since this text contains a secret, it
+ is recommended that either <filename>named.conf</filename> not be
+ world-readable, or that the <command>key</command> directive
+ be stored in a file which is not world-readable, and which is
+ included in <filename>named.conf</filename> via the
+ <command>include</command> directive.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Once a key has been added to <filename>named.conf</filename> and the
+ server has been restarted or reconfigured, the server can recognize
+ the key. If the server receives a message signed by the
+ key, it will be able to verify the signature. If the signature
+ is valid, the response will be signed using the same key.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ TSIG keys that are known to a server can be listed using the
+ command <command>rndc tsig-list</command>.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section><info><title>Instructing the Server to Use a Key</title></info>
+ <para>
+ A server sending a request to another server must be told whether
+ to use a key, and if so, which key to use.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ For example, a key may be specified for each server in the
+ <command>masters</command> statement in the definition of a
+ slave zone; in this case, all SOA QUERY messages, NOTIFY
+ messages, and zone transfer requests (AXFR or IXFR) will be
+ signed using the specified key. Keys may also be specified
+ in the <command>also-notify</command> statement of a master
+ or slave zone, causing NOTIFY messages to be signed using
+ the specified key.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Keys can also be specified in a <command>server</command>
+ directive. Adding the following on <emphasis>host1</emphasis>,
+ if the IP address of <emphasis>host2</emphasis> is 10.1.2.3, would
+ cause <emphasis>all</emphasis> requests from <emphasis>host1</emphasis>
+ to <emphasis>host2</emphasis>, including normal DNS queries, to be
+ signed using the <command>host1-host2.</command> key:
+ </para>
+<programlisting>
+server 10.1.2.3 {
+ keys { host1-host2. ;};
+};
+</programlisting>
+ <para>
+ Multiple keys may be present in the <command>keys</command>
+ statement, but only the first one is used. As this directive does
+ not contain secrets, it can be used in a world-readable file.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Requests sent by <emphasis>host2</emphasis> to <emphasis>host1</emphasis>
+ would <emphasis>not</emphasis> be signed, unless a similar
+ <command>server</command> directive were in <emphasis>host2</emphasis>'s
+ configuration file.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Whenever any server sends a TSIG-signed DNS request, it will expect
+ the response to be signed with the same key. If a response is not
+ signed, or if the signature is not valid, the response will be
+ rejected.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section><info><title>TSIG-Based Access Control</title></info>
+ <para>
+ TSIG keys may be specified in ACL definitions and ACL directives
+ such as <command>allow-query</command>, <command>allow-transfer</command>
+ and <command>allow-update</command>.
+ The above key would be denoted in an ACL element as
+ <command>key host1-host2.</command>
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ An example of an <command>allow-update</command> directive using
+ a TSIG key:
+ </para>
+<programlisting>
+allow-update { !{ !localnets; any; }; key host1-host2. ;};
+</programlisting>
+ <para>
+ This allows dynamic updates to succeed only if the UPDATE
+ request comes from an address in <command>localnets</command>,
+ <emphasis>and</emphasis> if it is signed using the
+ <command>host1-host2.</command> key.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ See <xref linkend="dynamic_update_policies"/> for a discussion of
+ the more flexible <command>update-policy</command> statement.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section><info><title>Errors</title></info>
+ <para>
+ Processing of TSIG-signed messages can result in several errors:
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ If a TSIG-aware server receives a message signed by an
+ unknown key, the response will be unsigned, with the TSIG
+ extended error code set to BADKEY.
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ If a TSIG-aware server receives a message from a known key
+ but with an invalid signature, the response will be unsigned,
+ with the TSIG extended error code set to BADSIG.
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ If a TSIG-aware server receives a message with a time
+ outside of the allowed range, the response will be signed, with
+ the TSIG extended error code set to BADTIME, and the time values
+ will be adjusted so that the response can be successfully
+ verified.
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ In all of the above cases, the server will return a response code
+ of NOTAUTH (not authenticated).
+ </para>
+ </section>
+ </section>
+
+ <section xml:id="tkey"><info><title>TKEY</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ TKEY (Transaction KEY) is a mechanism for automatically negotiating
+ a shared secret between two hosts, originally specified in RFC 2930.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ There are several TKEY "modes" that specify how a key is to be
+ generated or assigned. <acronym>BIND</acronym> 9 implements only
+ one of these modes: Diffie-Hellman key exchange. Both hosts are
+ required to have a KEY record with algorithm DH (though this
+ record is not required to be present in a zone).
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The TKEY process is initiated by a client or server by sending
+ a query of type TKEY to a TKEY-aware server. The query must include
+ an appropriate KEY record in the additional section, and
+ must be signed using either TSIG or SIG(0) with a previously
+ established key. The server's response, if successful, will
+ contain a TKEY record in its answer section. After this transaction,
+ both participants will have enough information to calculate a
+ shared secret using Diffie-Hellman key exchange. The shared secret
+ can then be used by to sign subsequent transactions between the
+ two servers.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ TSIG keys known by the server, including TKEY-negotiated keys, can
+ be listed using <command>rndc tsig-list</command>.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ TKEY-negotiated keys can be deleted from a server using
+ <command>rndc tsig-delete</command>. This can also be done via
+ the TKEY protocol itself, by sending an authenticated TKEY query
+ specifying the "key deletion" mode.
+ </para>
+
+ </section>
+ <section xml:id="sig0"><info><title>SIG(0)</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ <acronym>BIND</acronym> partially supports DNSSEC SIG(0)
+ transaction signatures as specified in RFC 2535 and RFC 2931.
+ SIG(0) uses public/private keys to authenticate messages. Access control
+ is performed in the same manner as TSIG keys; privileges can be
+ granted or denied in ACL directives based on the key name.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ When a SIG(0) signed message is received, it will only be
+ verified if the key is known and trusted by the server. The
+ server will not attempt to recursively fetch or validate the
+ key.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ SIG(0) signing of multiple-message TCP streams is not supported.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The only tool shipped with <acronym>BIND</acronym> 9 that
+ generates SIG(0) signed messages is <command>nsupdate</command>.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section xml:id="DNSSEC"><info><title>DNSSEC</title></info>
+ <para>
+ Cryptographic authentication of DNS information is possible
+ through the DNS Security (<emphasis>DNSSEC-bis</emphasis>) extensions,
+ defined in RFC 4033, RFC 4034, and RFC 4035.
+ This section describes the creation and use of DNSSEC signed zones.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ In order to set up a DNSSEC secure zone, there are a series
+ of steps which must be followed. <acronym>BIND</acronym>
+ 9 ships
+ with several tools
+ that are used in this process, which are explained in more detail
+ below. In all cases, the <option>-h</option> option prints a
+ full list of parameters. Note that the DNSSEC tools require the
+ keyset files to be in the working directory or the
+ directory specified by the <option>-d</option> option, and
+ that the tools shipped with BIND 9.2.x and earlier are not compatible
+ with the current ones.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ There must also be communication with the administrators of
+ the parent and/or child zone to transmit keys. A zone's security
+ status must be indicated by the parent zone for a DNSSEC capable
+ resolver to trust its data. This is done through the presence
+ or absence of a <literal>DS</literal> record at the
+ delegation
+ point.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ For other servers to trust data in this zone, they must
+ either be statically configured with this zone's zone key or the
+ zone key of another zone above this one in the DNS tree.
+ </para>
+
+ <section xml:id="dnssec_keys"><info><title>Generating Keys</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ The <command>dnssec-keygen</command> program is used to
+ generate keys.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ A secure zone must contain one or more zone keys. The
+ zone keys will sign all other records in the zone, as well as
+ the zone keys of any secure delegated zones. Zone keys must
+ have the same name as the zone, a name type of
+ <command>ZONE</command>, and must be usable for
+ authentication.
+ It is recommended that zone keys use a cryptographic algorithm
+ designated as "mandatory to implement" by the IETF; currently
+ the only one is RSASHA1.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The following command will generate a 768-bit RSASHA1 key for
+ the <filename>child.example</filename> zone:
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ <userinput>dnssec-keygen -a RSASHA1 -b 768 -n ZONE child.example.</userinput>
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Two output files will be produced:
+ <filename>Kchild.example.+005+12345.key</filename> and
+ <filename>Kchild.example.+005+12345.private</filename>
+ (where
+ 12345 is an example of a key tag). The key filenames contain
+ the key name (<filename>child.example.</filename>),
+ algorithm (3
+ is DSA, 1 is RSAMD5, 5 is RSASHA1, etc.), and the key tag (12345 in
+ this case).
+ The private key (in the <filename>.private</filename>
+ file) is
+ used to generate signatures, and the public key (in the
+ <filename>.key</filename> file) is used for signature
+ verification.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ To generate another key with the same properties (but with
+ a different key tag), repeat the above command.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The <command>dnssec-keyfromlabel</command> program is used
+ to get a key pair from a crypto hardware and build the key
+ files. Its usage is similar to <command>dnssec-keygen</command>.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The public keys should be inserted into the zone file by
+ including the <filename>.key</filename> files using
+ <command>$INCLUDE</command> statements.
+ </para>
+
+ </section>
+ <section xml:id="dnssec_signing"><info><title>Signing the Zone</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ The <command>dnssec-signzone</command> program is used
+ to sign a zone.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Any <filename>keyset</filename> files corresponding to
+ secure subzones should be present. The zone signer will
+ generate <literal>NSEC</literal>, <literal>NSEC3</literal>
+ and <literal>RRSIG</literal> records for the zone, as
+ well as <literal>DS</literal> for the child zones if
+ <literal>'-g'</literal> is specified. If <literal>'-g'</literal>
+ is not specified, then DS RRsets for the secure child
+ zones need to be added manually.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The following command signs the zone, assuming it is in a
+ file called <filename>zone.child.example</filename>. By
+ default, all zone keys which have an available private key are
+ used to generate signatures.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ <userinput>dnssec-signzone -o child.example zone.child.example</userinput>
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ One output file is produced:
+ <filename>zone.child.example.signed</filename>. This
+ file
+ should be referenced by <filename>named.conf</filename>
+ as the
+ input file for the zone.
+ </para>
+
+ <para><command>dnssec-signzone</command>
+ will also produce a keyset and dsset files and optionally a
+ dlvset file. These are used to provide the parent zone
+ administrators with the <literal>DNSKEYs</literal> (or their
+ corresponding <literal>DS</literal> records) that are the
+ secure entry point to the zone.
+ </para>
+
+ </section>
+
+ <section xml:id="dnssec_config"><info><title>Configuring Servers</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ To enable <command>named</command> to respond appropriately
+ to DNS requests from DNSSEC aware clients,
+ <command>dnssec-enable</command> must be set to yes.
+ (This is the default setting.)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ To enable <command>named</command> to validate answers from
+ other servers, the <command>dnssec-enable</command> option
+ must be set to <userinput>yes</userinput>, and the
+ <command>dnssec-validation</command> options must be set to
+ <userinput>yes</userinput> or <userinput>auto</userinput>.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ If <command>dnssec-validation</command> is set to
+ <userinput>auto</userinput>, then a default
+ trust anchor for the DNS root zone will be used.
+ If it is set to <userinput>yes</userinput>, however,
+ then at least one trust anchor must be configured
+ with a <command>trusted-keys</command> or
+ <command>managed-keys</command> statement in
+ <filename>named.conf</filename>, or DNSSEC validation
+ will not occur. The default setting is
+ <userinput>yes</userinput>.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ <command>trusted-keys</command> are copies of DNSKEY RRs
+ for zones that are used to form the first link in the
+ cryptographic chain of trust. All keys listed in
+ <command>trusted-keys</command> (and corresponding zones)
+ are deemed to exist and only the listed keys will be used
+ to validated the DNSKEY RRset that they are from.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ <command>managed-keys</command> are trusted keys which are
+ automatically kept up to date via RFC 5011 trust anchor
+ maintenance.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ <command>trusted-keys</command> and
+ <command>managed-keys</command> are described in more detail
+ later in this document.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Unlike <acronym>BIND</acronym> 8, <acronym>BIND</acronym>
+ 9 does not verify signatures on load, so zone keys for
+ authoritative zones do not need to be specified in the
+ configuration file.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ After DNSSEC gets established, a typical DNSSEC configuration
+ will look something like the following. It has one or
+ more public keys for the root. This allows answers from
+ outside the organization to be validated. It will also
+ have several keys for parts of the namespace the organization
+ controls. These are here to ensure that <command>named</command>
+ is immune to compromises in the DNSSEC components of the security
+ of parent zones.
+ </para>
+
+<programlisting>
+managed-keys {
+ /* Root Key */
+ "." initial-key 257 3 3 "BNY4wrWM1nCfJ+CXd0rVXyYmobt7sEEfK3clRbGaTwS
+ JxrGkxJWoZu6I7PzJu/E9gx4UC1zGAHlXKdE4zYIpRh
+ aBKnvcC2U9mZhkdUpd1Vso/HAdjNe8LmMlnzY3zy2Xy
+ 4klWOADTPzSv9eamj8V18PHGjBLaVtYvk/ln5ZApjYg
+ hf+6fElrmLkdaz MQ2OCnACR817DF4BBa7UR/beDHyp
+ 5iWTXWSi6XmoJLbG9Scqc7l70KDqlvXR3M/lUUVRbke
+ g1IPJSidmK3ZyCllh4XSKbje/45SKucHgnwU5jefMtq
+ 66gKodQj+MiA21AfUVe7u99WzTLzY3qlxDhxYQQ20FQ
+ 97S+LKUTpQcq27R7AT3/V5hRQxScINqwcz4jYqZD2fQ
+ dgxbcDTClU0CRBdiieyLMNzXG3";
+};
+
+trusted-keys {
+ /* Key for our organization's forward zone */
+ example.com. 257 3 5 "AwEAAaxPMcR2x0HbQV4WeZB6oEDX+r0QM6
+ 5KbhTjrW1ZaARmPhEZZe3Y9ifgEuq7vZ/z
+ GZUdEGNWy+JZzus0lUptwgjGwhUS1558Hb
+ 4JKUbbOTcM8pwXlj0EiX3oDFVmjHO444gL
+ kBOUKUf/mC7HvfwYH/Be22GnClrinKJp1O
+ g4ywzO9WglMk7jbfW33gUKvirTHr25GL7S
+ TQUzBb5Usxt8lgnyTUHs1t3JwCY5hKZ6Cq
+ FxmAVZP20igTixin/1LcrgX/KMEGd/biuv
+ F4qJCyduieHukuY3H4XMAcR+xia2nIUPvm
+ /oyWR8BW/hWdzOvnSCThlHf3xiYleDbt/o
+ 1OTQ09A0=";
+
+ /* Key for our reverse zone. */
+ 2.0.192.IN-ADDRPA.NET. 257 3 5 "AQOnS4xn/IgOUpBPJ3bogzwc
+ xOdNax071L18QqZnQQQAVVr+i
+ LhGTnNGp3HoWQLUIzKrJVZ3zg
+ gy3WwNT6kZo6c0tszYqbtvchm
+ gQC8CzKojM/W16i6MG/eafGU3
+ siaOdS0yOI6BgPsw+YZdzlYMa
+ IJGf4M4dyoKIhzdZyQ2bYQrjy
+ Q4LB0lC7aOnsMyYKHHYeRvPxj
+ IQXmdqgOJGq+vsevG06zW+1xg
+ YJh9rCIfnm1GX/KMgxLPG2vXT
+ D/RnLX+D3T3UL7HJYHJhAZD5L
+ 59VvjSPsZJHeDCUyWYrvPZesZ
+ DIRvhDD52SKvbheeTJUm6Ehkz
+ ytNN2SN96QRk8j/iI8ib";
+};
+
+options {
+ ...
+ dnssec-enable yes;
+ dnssec-validation yes;
+};
+</programlisting>
+
+ <note><simpara>
+ None of the keys listed in this example are valid. In particular,
+ the root key is not valid.
+ </simpara></note>
+
+ <para>
+ When DNSSEC validation is enabled and properly configured,
+ the resolver will reject any answers from signed, secure zones
+ which fail to validate, and will return SERVFAIL to the client.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Responses may fail to validate for any of several reasons,
+ including missing, expired, or invalid signatures, a key which
+ does not match the DS RRset in the parent zone, or an insecure
+ response from a zone which, according to its parent, should have
+ been secure.
+ </para>
+
+ <note>
+ <para>
+ When the validator receives a response from an unsigned zone
+ that has a signed parent, it must confirm with the parent
+ that the zone was intentionally left unsigned. It does
+ this by verifying, via signed and validated NSEC/NSEC3 records,
+ that the parent zone contains no DS records for the child.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ If the validator <emphasis>can</emphasis> prove that the zone
+ is insecure, then the response is accepted. However, if it
+ cannot, then it must assume an insecure response to be a
+ forgery; it rejects the response and logs an error.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The logged error reads "insecurity proof failed" and
+ "got insecure response; parent indicates it should be secure".
+ </para>
+ </note>
+ </section>
+ </section>
+
+ <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="dnssec.xml"/>
+
+ <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="managed-keys.xml"/>
+
+ <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="pkcs11.xml"/>
+
+ <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="dlz.xml"/>
+
+ <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="dyndb.xml"/>
+
+ <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="catz.xml"/>
+
+ <section xml:id="ipv6"><info><title>IPv6 Support in <acronym>BIND</acronym> 9</title></info>
+ <para>
+ <acronym>BIND</acronym> 9 fully supports all currently
+ defined forms of IPv6 name to address and address to name
+ lookups. It will also use IPv6 addresses to make queries when
+ running on an IPv6 capable system.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ For forward lookups, <acronym>BIND</acronym> 9 supports
+ only AAAA records. RFC 3363 deprecated the use of A6 records,
+ and client-side support for A6 records was accordingly removed
+ from <acronym>BIND</acronym> 9.
+ However, authoritative <acronym>BIND</acronym> 9 name servers still
+ load zone files containing A6 records correctly, answer queries
+ for A6 records, and accept zone transfer for a zone containing A6
+ records.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ For IPv6 reverse lookups, <acronym>BIND</acronym> 9 supports
+ the traditional "nibble" format used in the
+ <emphasis>ip6.arpa</emphasis> domain, as well as the older, deprecated
+ <emphasis>ip6.int</emphasis> domain.
+ Older versions of <acronym>BIND</acronym> 9
+ supported the "binary label" (also known as "bitstring") format,
+ but support of binary labels has been completely removed per
+ RFC 3363.
+ Many applications in <acronym>BIND</acronym> 9 do not understand
+ the binary label format at all any more, and will return an
+ error if given.
+ In particular, an authoritative <acronym>BIND</acronym> 9
+ name server will not load a zone file containing binary labels.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ For an overview of the format and structure of IPv6 addresses,
+ see <xref linkend="ipv6addresses"/>.
+ </para>
+
+ <section><info><title>Address Lookups Using AAAA Records</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ The IPv6 AAAA record is a parallel to the IPv4 A record,
+ and, unlike the deprecated A6 record, specifies the entire
+ IPv6 address in a single record. For example,
+ </para>
+
+<programlisting>
+$ORIGIN example.com.
+host 3600 IN AAAA 2001:db8::1
+</programlisting>
+
+ <para>
+ Use of IPv4-in-IPv6 mapped addresses is not recommended.
+ If a host has an IPv4 address, use an A record, not
+ a AAAA, with <literal>::ffff:192.168.42.1</literal> as
+ the address.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+ <section><info><title>Address to Name Lookups Using Nibble Format</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ When looking up an address in nibble format, the address
+ components are simply reversed, just as in IPv4, and
+ <literal>ip6.arpa.</literal> is appended to the
+ resulting name.
+ For example, the following would provide reverse name lookup for
+ a host with address
+ <literal>2001:db8::1</literal>.
+ </para>
+
+<programlisting>
+$ORIGIN 0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.8.b.d.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa.
+1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0 14400 IN PTR (
+ host.example.com. )
+</programlisting>
+
+ </section>
+ </section>
+ </chapter>
+
+ <chapter xml:id="Bv9ARM.ch05"><info><title>The <acronym>BIND</acronym> 9 Lightweight Resolver</title></info>
+
+ <section xml:id="lightweight_resolver"><info><title>The Lightweight Resolver Library</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ Traditionally applications have been linked with a stub resolver
+ library that sends recursive DNS queries to a local caching name
+ server.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ IPv6 once introduced new complexity into the resolution process,
+ such as following A6 chains and DNAME records, and simultaneous
+ lookup of IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. Though most of the complexity was
+ then removed, these are hard or impossible
+ to implement in a traditional stub resolver.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <acronym>BIND</acronym> 9 therefore can also provide resolution
+ services to local clients
+ using a combination of a lightweight resolver library and a resolver
+ daemon process running on the local host. These communicate using
+ a simple UDP-based protocol, the "lightweight resolver protocol"
+ that is distinct from and simpler than the full DNS protocol.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+ <section xml:id="lwresd"><info><title>Running a Resolver Daemon</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ To use the lightweight resolver interface, the system must
+ run the resolver daemon <command>lwresd</command> or a
+ local
+ name server configured with a <command>lwres</command>
+ statement.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ By default, applications using the lightweight resolver library will
+ make
+ UDP requests to the IPv4 loopback address (127.0.0.1) on port 921.
+ The
+ address can be overridden by <command>lwserver</command>
+ lines in
+ <filename>/etc/resolv.conf</filename>.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The daemon currently only looks in the DNS, but in the future
+ it may use other sources such as <filename>/etc/hosts</filename>,
+ NIS, etc.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The <command>lwresd</command> daemon is essentially a
+ caching-only name server that responds to requests using the
+ lightweight
+ resolver protocol rather than the DNS protocol. Because it needs
+ to run on each host, it is designed to require no or minimal
+ configuration.
+ Unless configured otherwise, it uses the name servers listed on
+ <command>nameserver</command> lines in <filename>/etc/resolv.conf</filename>
+ as forwarders, but is also capable of doing the resolution
+ autonomously if
+ none are specified.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The <command>lwresd</command> daemon may also be
+ configured with a
+ <filename>named.conf</filename> style configuration file,
+ in
+ <filename>/etc/lwresd.conf</filename> by default. A name
+ server may also
+ be configured to act as a lightweight resolver daemon using the
+ <command>lwres</command> statement in <filename>named.conf</filename>.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The number of client queries that the <command>lwresd</command>
+ daemon is able to serve can be set using the
+ <option>lwres-tasks</option> and <option>lwres-clients</option>
+ statements in the configuration.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+ </chapter>
+
+ <chapter xml:id="Bv9ARM.ch06"><info><title><acronym>BIND</acronym> 9 Configuration Reference</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ <acronym>BIND</acronym> 9 configuration is broadly similar
+ to <acronym>BIND</acronym> 8; however, there are a few new
+ areas
+ of configuration, such as views. <acronym>BIND</acronym>
+ 8 configuration files should work with few alterations in <acronym>BIND</acronym>
+ 9, although more complex configurations should be reviewed to check
+ if they can be more efficiently implemented using the new features
+ found in <acronym>BIND</acronym> 9.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ <acronym>BIND</acronym> 4 configuration files can be
+ converted to the new format
+ using the shell script
+ <filename>contrib/named-bootconf/named-bootconf.sh</filename>.
+ </para>
+ <section xml:id="configuration_file_elements"><info><title>Configuration File Elements</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ Following is a list of elements used throughout the <acronym>BIND</acronym> configuration
+ file documentation:
+ </para>
+ <informaltable colsep="0" rowsep="0">
+ <tgroup cols="2" colsep="0" rowsep="0" tgroupstyle="2Level-table">
+ <colspec colname="1" colnum="1" colsep="0" colwidth="1.855in"/>
+ <colspec colname="2" colnum="2" colsep="0" colwidth="3.770in"/>
+ <tbody>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ <varname>acl_name</varname>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ The name of an <varname>address_match_list</varname> as
+ defined by the <command>acl</command> statement.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ <varname>address_match_list</varname>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ A list of one or more
+ <varname>ip_addr</varname>,
+ <varname>ip_prefix</varname>, <varname>key_id</varname>,
+ or <varname>acl_name</varname> elements, see
+ <xref linkend="address_match_lists"/>.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ <varname>masters_list</varname>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ A named list of one or more <varname>ip_addr</varname>
+ with optional <varname>key_id</varname> and/or
+ <varname>ip_port</varname>.
+ A <varname>masters_list</varname> may include other
+ <varname>masters_lists</varname>.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ <varname>domain_name</varname>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ A quoted string which will be used as
+ a DNS name, for example "<literal>my.test.domain</literal>".
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ <varname>namelist</varname>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ A list of one or more <varname>domain_name</varname>
+ elements.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ <varname>dotted_decimal</varname>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ One to four integers valued 0 through
+ 255 separated by dots (`.'), such as <command>123</command>,
+ <command>45.67</command> or <command>89.123.45.67</command>.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ <varname>ip4_addr</varname>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ An IPv4 address with exactly four elements
+ in <varname>dotted_decimal</varname> notation.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ <varname>ip6_addr</varname>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ An IPv6 address, such as <command>2001:db8::1234</command>.
+ IPv6 scoped addresses that have ambiguity on their
+ scope zones must be disambiguated by an appropriate
+ zone ID with the percent character (`%') as
+ delimiter. It is strongly recommended to use
+ string zone names rather than numeric identifiers,
+ in order to be robust against system configuration
+ changes. However, since there is no standard
+ mapping for such names and identifier values,
+ currently only interface names as link identifiers
+ are supported, assuming one-to-one mapping between
+ interfaces and links. For example, a link-local
+ address <command>fe80::1</command> on the link
+ attached to the interface <command>ne0</command>
+ can be specified as <command>fe80::1%ne0</command>.
+ Note that on most systems link-local addresses
+ always have the ambiguity, and need to be
+ disambiguated.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ <varname>ip_addr</varname>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ An <varname>ip4_addr</varname> or <varname>ip6_addr</varname>.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ <varname>ip_dscp</varname>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ A <varname>number</varname> between 0 and 63, used
+ to select a differentiated services code point (DSCP)
+ value for use with outgoing traffic on operating systems
+ that support DSCP.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ <varname>ip_port</varname>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ An IP port <varname>number</varname>.
+ The <varname>number</varname> is limited to 0
+ through 65535, with values
+ below 1024 typically restricted to use by processes running
+ as root.
+ In some cases, an asterisk (`*') character can be used as a
+ placeholder to
+ select a random high-numbered port.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ <varname>ip_prefix</varname>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ An IP network specified as an <varname>ip_addr</varname>,
+ followed by a slash (`/') and then the number of bits in the
+ netmask.
+ Trailing zeros in a <varname>ip_addr</varname>
+ may omitted.
+ For example, <command>127/8</command> is the
+ network <command>127.0.0.0</command> with
+ netmask <command>255.0.0.0</command> and <command>1.2.3.0/28</command> is
+ network <command>1.2.3.0</command> with netmask <command>255.255.255.240</command>.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ When specifying a prefix involving a IPv6 scoped address
+ the scope may be omitted. In that case the prefix will
+ match packets from any scope.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ <varname>key_id</varname>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ A <varname>domain_name</varname> representing
+ the name of a shared key, to be used for transaction
+ security.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ <varname>key_list</varname>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ A list of one or more
+ <varname>key_id</varname>s,
+ separated by semicolons and ending with a semicolon.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ <varname>number</varname>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ A non-negative 32-bit integer
+ (i.e., a number between 0 and 4294967295, inclusive).
+ Its acceptable value might be further
+ limited by the context in which it is used.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ <varname>fixedpoint</varname>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ A non-negative real number that can be specified to
+ the nearest one hundredth. Up to five digits can be
+ specified before a decimal point, and up to two
+ digits after, so the maximum value is 99999.99.
+ Acceptable values might be further limited by the
+ context in which it is used.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ <varname>path_name</varname>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ A quoted string which will be used as
+ a pathname, such as <filename>zones/master/my.test.domain</filename>.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ <varname>port_list</varname>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ A list of an <varname>ip_port</varname> or a port
+ range.
+ A port range is specified in the form of
+ <userinput>range</userinput> followed by
+ two <varname>ip_port</varname>s,
+ <varname>port_low</varname> and
+ <varname>port_high</varname>, which represents
+ port numbers from <varname>port_low</varname> through
+ <varname>port_high</varname>, inclusive.
+ <varname>port_low</varname> must not be larger than
+ <varname>port_high</varname>.
+ For example,
+ <userinput>range 1024 65535</userinput> represents
+ ports from 1024 through 65535.
+ In either case an asterisk (`*') character is not
+ allowed as a valid <varname>ip_port</varname>.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ <varname>size_spec</varname>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ A 64-bit unsigned integer, or the keywords
+ <userinput>unlimited</userinput> or
+ <userinput>default</userinput>.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Integers may take values
+ 0 &lt;= value &lt;= 18446744073709551615, though
+ certain parameters
+ (such as <command>max-journal-size</command>) may
+ use a more limited range within these extremes.
+ In most cases, setting a value to 0 does not
+ literally mean zero; it means "undefined" or
+ "as big as possible", depending on the context.
+ See the explanations of particular parameters
+ that use <varname>size_spec</varname>
+ for details on how they interpret its use.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Numeric values can optionally be followed by a
+ scaling factor:
+ <userinput>K</userinput> or <userinput>k</userinput>
+ for kilobytes,
+ <userinput>M</userinput> or <userinput>m</userinput>
+ for megabytes, and
+ <userinput>G</userinput> or <userinput>g</userinput>
+ for gigabytes, which scale by 1024, 1024*1024, and
+ 1024*1024*1024 respectively.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <varname>unlimited</varname> generally means
+ "as big as possible", and is usually the best
+ way to safely set a very large number.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <varname>default</varname>
+ uses the limit that was in force when the server was started.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ <varname>size_or_percent</varname>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ <varname>size_spec</varname> or integer value
+ followed by '%' to represent percents.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The behavior is exactly the same as
+ <varname>size_spec</varname>, but
+ <varname>size_or_percent</varname> allows also
+ to specify a positive integer value followed by
+ '%' sign to represent percents.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ <varname>yes_or_no</varname>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Either <userinput>yes</userinput> or <userinput>no</userinput>.
+ The words <userinput>true</userinput> and <userinput>false</userinput> are
+ also accepted, as are the numbers <userinput>1</userinput>
+ and <userinput>0</userinput>.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ <varname>dialup_option</varname>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ One of <userinput>yes</userinput>,
+ <userinput>no</userinput>, <userinput>notify</userinput>,
+ <userinput>notify-passive</userinput>, <userinput>refresh</userinput> or
+ <userinput>passive</userinput>.
+ When used in a zone, <userinput>notify-passive</userinput>,
+ <userinput>refresh</userinput>, and <userinput>passive</userinput>
+ are restricted to slave and stub zones.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ </tbody>
+ </tgroup>
+ </informaltable>
+ <section xml:id="address_match_lists"><info><title>Address Match Lists</title></info>
+
+ <section><info><title>Syntax</title></info>
+
+<programlisting><replaceable>address_match_list</replaceable> = <replaceable>address_match_list_element</replaceable> <command>;</command> ...
+
+<replaceable>address_match_list_element</replaceable> = [ <command>!</command> ] ( <replaceable>ip_address</replaceable> | <replaceable>ip_prefix</replaceable> |
+ <command>key</command> <replaceable>key_id</replaceable> | <replaceable>acl_name</replaceable> | <command>{</command> <replaceable>address_match_list</replaceable> <command>}</command> )
+</programlisting>
+
+ </section>
+ <section><info><title>Definition and Usage</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ Address match lists are primarily used to determine access
+ control for various server operations. They are also used in
+ the <command>listen-on</command> and <command>sortlist</command>
+ statements. The elements which constitute an address match
+ list can be any of the following:
+ </para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <simpara>an IP address (IPv4 or IPv6)</simpara>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <simpara>an IP prefix (in `/' notation)</simpara>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <simpara>
+ a key ID, as defined by the <command>key</command>
+ statement
+ </simpara>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <simpara>the name of an address match list defined with
+ the <command>acl</command> statement
+ </simpara>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <simpara>a nested address match list enclosed in braces</simpara>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+
+ <para>
+ Elements can be negated with a leading exclamation mark (`!'),
+ and the match list names "any", "none", "localhost", and
+ "localnets" are predefined. More information on those names
+ can be found in the description of the acl statement.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The addition of the key clause made the name of this syntactic
+ element something of a misnomer, since security keys can be used
+ to validate access without regard to a host or network address.
+ Nonetheless, the term "address match list" is still used
+ throughout the documentation.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ When a given IP address or prefix is compared to an address
+ match list, the comparison takes place in approximately O(1)
+ time. However, key comparisons require that the list of keys
+ be traversed until a matching key is found, and therefore may
+ be somewhat slower.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The interpretation of a match depends on whether the list is being
+ used for access control, defining <command>listen-on</command> ports, or in a
+ <command>sortlist</command>, and whether the element was negated.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ When used as an access control list, a non-negated match
+ allows access and a negated match denies access. If
+ there is no match, access is denied. The clauses
+ <command>allow-notify</command>,
+ <command>allow-recursion</command>,
+ <command>allow-recursion-on</command>,
+ <command>allow-query</command>,
+ <command>allow-query-on</command>,
+ <command>allow-query-cache</command>,
+ <command>allow-query-cache-on</command>,
+ <command>allow-transfer</command>,
+ <command>allow-update</command>,
+ <command>allow-update-forwarding</command>,
+ <command>blackhole</command>, and
+ <command>keep-response-order</command> all use address match
+ lists. Similarly, the <command>listen-on</command> option will cause the
+ server to refuse queries on any of the machine's
+ addresses which do not match the list.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Order of insertion is significant. If more than one element
+ in an ACL is found to match a given IP address or prefix,
+ preference will be given to the one that came
+ <emphasis>first</emphasis> in the ACL definition.
+ Because of this first-match behavior, an element that
+ defines a subset of another element in the list should
+ come before the broader element, regardless of whether
+ either is negated. For example, in
+ <command>1.2.3/24; ! 1.2.3.13;</command>
+ the 1.2.3.13 element is completely useless because the
+ algorithm will match any lookup for 1.2.3.13 to the 1.2.3/24
+ element. Using <command>! 1.2.3.13; 1.2.3/24</command> fixes
+ that problem by having 1.2.3.13 blocked by the negation, but
+ all other 1.2.3.* hosts fall through.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+ </section>
+
+ <section xml:id="comment_syntax"><info><title>Comment Syntax</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ The <acronym>BIND</acronym> 9 comment syntax allows for
+ comments to appear
+ anywhere that whitespace may appear in a <acronym>BIND</acronym> configuration
+ file. To appeal to programmers of all kinds, they can be written
+ in the C, C++, or shell/perl style.
+ </para>
+
+ <section><info><title>Syntax</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ <programlisting>/* This is a <acronym>BIND</acronym> comment as in C */</programlisting>
+ <programlisting>// This is a <acronym>BIND</acronym> comment as in C++</programlisting>
+ <programlisting># This is a <acronym>BIND</acronym> comment as in common UNIX shells
+# and perl</programlisting>
+ </para>
+ </section>
+ <section><info><title>Definition and Usage</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ Comments may appear anywhere that whitespace may appear in
+ a <acronym>BIND</acronym> configuration file.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ C-style comments start with the two characters /* (slash,
+ star) and end with */ (star, slash). Because they are completely
+ delimited with these characters, they can be used to comment only
+ a portion of a line or to span multiple lines.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ C-style comments cannot be nested. For example, the following
+ is not valid because the entire comment ends with the first */:
+ </para>
+ <para>
+
+<programlisting>/* This is the start of a comment.
+ This is still part of the comment.
+/* This is an incorrect attempt at nesting a comment. */
+ This is no longer in any comment. */
+</programlisting>
+
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ C++-style comments start with the two characters // (slash,
+ slash) and continue to the end of the physical line. They cannot
+ be continued across multiple physical lines; to have one logical
+ comment span multiple lines, each line must use the // pair.
+ For example:
+ </para>
+ <para>
+
+<programlisting>// This is the start of a comment. The next line
+// is a new comment, even though it is logically
+// part of the previous comment.
+</programlisting>
+
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Shell-style (or perl-style, if you prefer) comments start
+ with the character <literal>#</literal> (number sign)
+ and continue to the end of the
+ physical line, as in C++ comments.
+ For example:
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+
+<programlisting># This is the start of a comment. The next line
+# is a new comment, even though it is logically
+# part of the previous comment.
+</programlisting>
+
+ </para>
+
+ <warning>
+ <para>
+ You cannot use the semicolon (`;') character
+ to start a comment such as you would in a zone file. The
+ semicolon indicates the end of a configuration
+ statement.
+ </para>
+ </warning>
+ </section>
+ </section>
+ </section>
+
+ <section xml:id="Configuration_File_Grammar"><info><title>Configuration File Grammar</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ A <acronym>BIND</acronym> 9 configuration consists of
+ statements and comments.
+ Statements end with a semicolon. Statements and comments are the
+ only elements that can appear without enclosing braces. Many
+ statements contain a block of sub-statements, which are also
+ terminated with a semicolon.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The following statements are supported:
+ </para>
+
+ <informaltable colsep="0" rowsep="0">
+ <tgroup cols="2" colsep="0" rowsep="0" tgroupstyle="2Level-table">
+ <colspec colname="1" colnum="1" colsep="0" colwidth="1.336in"/>
+ <colspec colname="2" colnum="2" colsep="0" colwidth="3.778in"/>
+ <tbody>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>acl</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ defines a named IP address
+ matching list, for access control and other uses.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>controls</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ declares control channels to be used
+ by the <command>rndc</command> utility.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>include</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ includes a file.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>key</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ specifies key information for use in
+ authentication and authorization using TSIG.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>logging</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ specifies what the server logs, and where
+ the log messages are sent.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>lwres</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ configures <command>named</command> to
+ also act as a light-weight resolver daemon (<command>lwresd</command>).
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>masters</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ defines a named masters list for
+ inclusion in stub and slave zones'
+ <command>masters</command> or
+ <command>also-notify</command> lists.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>options</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ controls global server configuration
+ options and sets defaults for other statements.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>server</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ sets certain configuration options on
+ a per-server basis.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>statistics-channels</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ declares communication channels to get access to
+ <command>named</command> statistics.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>trusted-keys</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ defines trusted DNSSEC keys.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>managed-keys</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ lists DNSSEC keys to be kept up to date
+ using RFC 5011 trust anchor maintenance.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>view</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ defines a view.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>zone</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ defines a zone.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ </tbody>
+ </tgroup>
+ </informaltable>
+
+ <para>
+ The <command>logging</command> and
+ <command>options</command> statements may only occur once
+ per
+ configuration.
+ </para>
+
+ <section xml:id="acl_grammar"><info><title><command>acl</command> Statement Grammar</title></info>
+ <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="acl.grammar.xml"/>
+ </section>
+ <section xml:id="acl"><info><title><command>acl</command> Statement Definition and
+ Usage</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ The <command>acl</command> statement assigns a symbolic
+ name to an address match list. It gets its name from a primary
+ use of address match lists: Access Control Lists (ACLs).
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The following ACLs are built-in:
+ </para>
+
+ <informaltable colsep="0" rowsep="0">
+ <tgroup cols="2" colsep="0" rowsep="0" tgroupstyle="3Level-table">
+ <colspec colname="1" colnum="1" colsep="0" colwidth="1.130in"/>
+ <colspec colname="2" colnum="2" colsep="0" colwidth="4.000in"/>
+ <tbody>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>any</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Matches all hosts.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>none</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Matches no hosts.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>localhost</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Matches the IPv4 and IPv6 addresses of all network
+ interfaces on the system. When addresses are
+ added or removed, the <command>localhost</command>
+ ACL element is updated to reflect the changes.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>localnets</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Matches any host on an IPv4 or IPv6 network
+ for which the system has an interface.
+ When addresses are added or removed,
+ the <command>localnets</command>
+ ACL element is updated to reflect the changes.
+ Some systems do not provide a way to determine the prefix
+ lengths of
+ local IPv6 addresses.
+ In such a case, <command>localnets</command>
+ only matches the local
+ IPv6 addresses, just like <command>localhost</command>.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ </tbody>
+ </tgroup>
+ </informaltable>
+ </section>
+ <section xml:id="controls_grammar"><info><title><command>controls</command> Statement Grammar</title></info>
+ <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="controls.grammar.xml"/>
+ </section>
+
+ <section xml:id="controls_statement_definition_and_usage"><info><title><command>controls</command> Statement Definition and
+ Usage</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ The <command>controls</command> statement declares control
+ channels to be used by system administrators to control the
+ operation of the name server. These control channels are
+ used by the <command>rndc</command> utility to send
+ commands to and retrieve non-DNS results from a name server.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ An <command>inet</command> control channel is a TCP socket
+ listening at the specified <command>ip_port</command> on the
+ specified <command>ip_addr</command>, which can be an IPv4 or IPv6
+ address. An <command>ip_addr</command> of <literal>*</literal> (asterisk) is
+ interpreted as the IPv4 wildcard address; connections will be
+ accepted on any of the system's IPv4 addresses.
+ To listen on the IPv6 wildcard address,
+ use an <command>ip_addr</command> of <literal>::</literal>.
+ If you will only use <command>rndc</command> on the local host,
+ using the loopback address (<literal>127.0.0.1</literal>
+ or <literal>::1</literal>) is recommended for maximum security.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ If no port is specified, port 953 is used. The asterisk
+ "<literal>*</literal>" cannot be used for <command>ip_port</command>.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The ability to issue commands over the control channel is
+ restricted by the <command>allow</command> and
+ <command>keys</command> clauses.
+ Connections to the control channel are permitted based on the
+ <command>address_match_list</command>. This is for simple
+ IP address based filtering only; any <command>key_id</command>
+ elements of the <command>address_match_list</command>
+ are ignored.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ A <command>unix</command> control channel is a UNIX domain
+ socket listening at the specified path in the file system.
+ Access to the socket is specified by the <command>perm</command>,
+ <command>owner</command> and <command>group</command> clauses.
+ Note on some platforms (SunOS and Solaris) the permissions
+ (<command>perm</command>) are applied to the parent directory
+ as the permissions on the socket itself are ignored.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The primary authorization mechanism of the command
+ channel is the <command>key_list</command>, which
+ contains a list of <command>key_id</command>s.
+ Each <command>key_id</command> in the <command>key_list</command>
+ is authorized to execute commands over the control channel.
+ See <xref linkend="rndc"/> in <xref linkend="admin_tools"/>)
+ for information about configuring keys in <command>rndc</command>.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ If the <command>read-only</command> clause is enabled, the
+ control channel is limited to the following set of read-only
+ commands: <command>nta -dump</command>,
+ <command>null</command>, <command>status</command>,
+ <command>showzone</command>, <command>testgen</command>, and
+ <command>zonestatus</command>. By default,
+ <command>read-only</command> is not enabled and the control
+ channel allows read-write access.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ If no <command>controls</command> statement is present,
+ <command>named</command> will set up a default
+ control channel listening on the loopback address 127.0.0.1
+ and its IPv6 counterpart ::1.
+ In this case, and also when the <command>controls</command> statement
+ is present but does not have a <command>keys</command> clause,
+ <command>named</command> will attempt to load the command channel key
+ from the file <filename>rndc.key</filename> in
+ <filename>/etc</filename> (or whatever <varname>sysconfdir</varname>
+ was specified as when <acronym>BIND</acronym> was built).
+ To create a <filename>rndc.key</filename> file, run
+ <userinput>rndc-confgen -a</userinput>.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The <filename>rndc.key</filename> feature was created to
+ ease the transition of systems from <acronym>BIND</acronym> 8,
+ which did not have digital signatures on its command channel
+ messages and thus did not have a <command>keys</command> clause.
+
+ It makes it possible to use an existing <acronym>BIND</acronym> 8
+ configuration file in <acronym>BIND</acronym> 9 unchanged,
+ and still have <command>rndc</command> work the same way
+ <command>ndc</command> worked in BIND 8, simply by executing the
+ command <userinput>rndc-confgen -a</userinput> after BIND 9 is
+ installed.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Since the <filename>rndc.key</filename> feature
+ is only intended to allow the backward-compatible usage of
+ <acronym>BIND</acronym> 8 configuration files, this
+ feature does not
+ have a high degree of configurability. You cannot easily change
+ the key name or the size of the secret, so you should make a
+ <filename>rndc.conf</filename> with your own key if you
+ wish to change
+ those things. The <filename>rndc.key</filename> file
+ also has its
+ permissions set such that only the owner of the file (the user that
+ <command>named</command> is running as) can access it.
+ If you
+ desire greater flexibility in allowing other users to access
+ <command>rndc</command> commands, then you need to create
+ a
+ <filename>rndc.conf</filename> file and make it group
+ readable by a group
+ that contains the users who should have access.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ To disable the command channel, use an empty
+ <command>controls</command> statement:
+ <command>controls { };</command>.
+ </para>
+
+ </section>
+ <section xml:id="include_grammar"><info><title><command>include</command> Statement Grammar</title></info>
+
+ <programlisting><command>include</command> <replaceable>filename</replaceable><command>;</command></programlisting>
+ </section>
+ <section xml:id="include_statement"><info><title><command>include</command> Statement Definition and Usage</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ The <command>include</command> statement inserts the
+ specified file at the point where the <command>include</command>
+ statement is encountered. The <command>include</command>
+ statement facilitates the administration of configuration
+ files
+ by permitting the reading or writing of some things but not
+ others. For example, the statement could include private keys
+ that are readable only by the name server.
+ </para>
+
+ </section>
+ <section xml:id="key_grammar"><info><title><command>key</command> Statement Grammar</title></info>
+ <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="key.grammar.xml"/>
+ </section>
+
+ <section xml:id="key_statement"><info><title><command>key</command> Statement Definition and Usage</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ The <command>key</command> statement defines a shared
+ secret key for use with TSIG (see <xref linkend="tsig"/>)
+ or the command channel
+ (see <xref linkend="controls_statement_definition_and_usage"/>).
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The <command>key</command> statement can occur at the
+ top level
+ of the configuration file or inside a <command>view</command>
+ statement. Keys defined in top-level <command>key</command>
+ statements can be used in all views. Keys intended for use in
+ a <command>controls</command> statement
+ (see <xref linkend="controls_statement_definition_and_usage"/>)
+ must be defined at the top level.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The <replaceable>key_id</replaceable>, also known as the
+ key name, is a domain name uniquely identifying the key. It can
+ be used in a <command>server</command>
+ statement to cause requests sent to that
+ server to be signed with this key, or in address match lists to
+ verify that incoming requests have been signed with a key
+ matching this name, algorithm, and secret.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The <replaceable>algorithm_id</replaceable> is a string
+ that specifies a security/authentication algorithm. The
+ <command>named</command> server supports <literal>hmac-md5</literal>,
+ <literal>hmac-sha1</literal>, <literal>hmac-sha224</literal>,
+ <literal>hmac-sha256</literal>, <literal>hmac-sha384</literal>
+ and <literal>hmac-sha512</literal> TSIG authentication.
+ Truncated hashes are supported by appending the minimum
+ number of required bits preceded by a dash, e.g.
+ <literal>hmac-sha1-80</literal>. The
+ <replaceable>secret_string</replaceable> is the secret
+ to be used by the algorithm, and is treated as a Base64
+ encoded string.
+ </para>
+
+ </section>
+ <section xml:id="logging_grammar"><info><title><command>logging</command> Statement Grammar</title></info>
+ <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="logging.grammar.xml"/>
+ </section>
+
+ <section xml:id="logging_statement"><info><title><command>logging</command> Statement Definition and Usage</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ The <command>logging</command> statement configures a
+ wide
+ variety of logging options for the name server. Its <command>channel</command> phrase
+ associates output methods, format options and severity levels with
+ a name that can then be used with the <command>category</command> phrase
+ to select how various classes of messages are logged.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Only one <command>logging</command> statement is used to
+ define
+ as many channels and categories as are wanted. If there is no <command>logging</command> statement,
+ the logging configuration will be:
+ </para>
+
+<programlisting>logging {
+ category default { default_syslog; default_debug; };
+ category unmatched { null; };
+};
+</programlisting>
+
+ <para>
+ If <command>named</command> is started with the
+ <option>-L</option> option, it logs to the specified file
+ at startup, instead of using syslog. In this case the logging
+ configuration will be:
+ </para>
+
+<programlisting>logging {
+ category default { default_logfile; default_debug; };
+ category unmatched { null; };
+};
+</programlisting>
+
+ <para>
+ In <acronym>BIND</acronym> 9, the logging configuration
+ is only established when
+ the entire configuration file has been parsed. In <acronym>BIND</acronym> 8, it was
+ established as soon as the <command>logging</command>
+ statement
+ was parsed. When the server is starting up, all logging messages
+ regarding syntax errors in the configuration file go to the default
+ channels, or to standard error if the <option>-g</option> option
+ was specified.
+ </para>
+
+ <section xml:id="channel"><info><title>The <command>channel</command> Phrase</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ All log output goes to one or more <emphasis>channels</emphasis>;
+ you can make as many of them as you want.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Every channel definition must include a destination clause that
+ says whether messages selected for the channel go to a file, to a
+ particular syslog facility, to the standard error stream, or are
+ discarded. It can optionally also limit the message severity level
+ that will be accepted by the channel (the default is
+ <command>info</command>), and whether to include a
+ <command>named</command>-generated time stamp, the
+ category name
+ and/or severity level (the default is not to include any).
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The <command>null</command> destination clause
+ causes all messages sent to the channel to be discarded;
+ in that case, other options for the channel are meaningless.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The <command>file</command> destination clause directs
+ the channel
+ to a disk file. It can include limitations
+ both on how large the file is allowed to become, and how many
+ versions
+ of the file will be saved each time the file is opened.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ If you use the <command>versions</command> log file
+ option, then
+ <command>named</command> will retain that many backup
+ versions of the file by
+ renaming them when opening. For example, if you choose to keep
+ three old versions
+ of the file <filename>lamers.log</filename>, then just
+ before it is opened
+ <filename>lamers.log.1</filename> is renamed to
+ <filename>lamers.log.2</filename>, <filename>lamers.log.0</filename> is renamed
+ to <filename>lamers.log.1</filename>, and <filename>lamers.log</filename> is
+ renamed to <filename>lamers.log.0</filename>.
+ You can say <command>versions unlimited</command> to
+ not limit
+ the number of versions.
+ If a <command>size</command> option is associated with
+ the log file,
+ then renaming is only done when the file being opened exceeds the
+ indicated size. No backup versions are kept by default; any
+ existing
+ log file is simply appended.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The <command>size</command> option for files is used
+ to limit log
+ growth. If the file ever exceeds the size, then <command>named</command> will
+ stop writing to the file unless it has a <command>versions</command> option
+ associated with it. If backup versions are kept, the files are
+ rolled as
+ described above and a new one begun. If there is no
+ <command>versions</command> option, no more data will
+ be written to the log
+ until some out-of-band mechanism removes or truncates the log to
+ less than the
+ maximum size. The default behavior is not to limit the size of
+ the
+ file.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Example usage of the <command>size</command> and
+ <command>versions</command> options:
+ </para>
+
+<programlisting>channel an_example_channel {
+ file "example.log" versions 3 size 20m;
+ print-time yes;
+ print-category yes;
+};
+</programlisting>
+
+ <para>
+ The <command>syslog</command> destination clause
+ directs the
+ channel to the system log. Its argument is a
+ syslog facility as described in the <command>syslog</command> man
+ page. Known facilities are <command>kern</command>, <command>user</command>,
+ <command>mail</command>, <command>daemon</command>, <command>auth</command>,
+ <command>syslog</command>, <command>lpr</command>, <command>news</command>,
+ <command>uucp</command>, <command>cron</command>, <command>authpriv</command>,
+ <command>ftp</command>, <command>local0</command>, <command>local1</command>,
+ <command>local2</command>, <command>local3</command>, <command>local4</command>,
+ <command>local5</command>, <command>local6</command> and
+ <command>local7</command>, however not all facilities
+ are supported on
+ all operating systems.
+ How <command>syslog</command> will handle messages
+ sent to
+ this facility is described in the <command>syslog.conf</command> man
+ page. If you have a system which uses a very old version of <command>syslog</command> that
+ only uses two arguments to the <command>openlog()</command> function,
+ then this clause is silently ignored.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ On Windows machines syslog messages are directed to the EventViewer.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The <command>severity</command> clause works like <command>syslog</command>'s
+ "priorities", except that they can also be used if you are writing
+ straight to a file rather than using <command>syslog</command>.
+ Messages which are not at least of the severity level given will
+ not be selected for the channel; messages of higher severity
+ levels
+ will be accepted.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ If you are using <command>syslog</command>, then the <command>syslog.conf</command> priorities
+ will also determine what eventually passes through. For example,
+ defining a channel facility and severity as <command>daemon</command> and <command>debug</command> but
+ only logging <command>daemon.warning</command> via <command>syslog.conf</command> will
+ cause messages of severity <command>info</command> and
+ <command>notice</command> to
+ be dropped. If the situation were reversed, with <command>named</command> writing
+ messages of only <command>warning</command> or higher,
+ then <command>syslogd</command> would
+ print all messages it received from the channel.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The <command>stderr</command> destination clause
+ directs the
+ channel to the server's standard error stream. This is intended
+ for
+ use when the server is running as a foreground process, for
+ example
+ when debugging a configuration.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The server can supply extensive debugging information when
+ it is in debugging mode. If the server's global debug level is
+ greater
+ than zero, then debugging mode will be active. The global debug
+ level is set either by starting the <command>named</command> server
+ with the <option>-d</option> flag followed by a positive integer,
+ or by running <command>rndc trace</command>.
+ The global debug level
+ can be set to zero, and debugging mode turned off, by running <command>rndc
+notrace</command>. All debugging messages in the server have a debug
+ level, and higher debug levels give more detailed output. Channels
+ that specify a specific debug severity, for example:
+ </para>
+
+<programlisting>channel specific_debug_level {
+ file "foo";
+ severity debug 3;
+};
+</programlisting>
+
+ <para>
+ will get debugging output of level 3 or less any time the
+ server is in debugging mode, regardless of the global debugging
+ level. Channels with <command>dynamic</command>
+ severity use the
+ server's global debug level to determine what messages to print.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ If <command>print-time</command> has been turned on,
+ then
+ the date and time will be logged. <command>print-time</command> may
+ be specified for a <command>syslog</command> channel,
+ but is usually
+ pointless since <command>syslog</command> also logs
+ the date and
+ time. If <command>print-category</command> is
+ requested, then the
+ category of the message will be logged as well. Finally, if <command>print-severity</command> is
+ on, then the severity level of the message will be logged. The <command>print-</command> options may
+ be used in any combination, and will always be printed in the
+ following
+ order: time, category, severity. Here is an example where all
+ three <command>print-</command> options
+ are on:
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ <computeroutput>28-Feb-2000 15:05:32.863 general: notice: running</computeroutput>
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ If <command>buffered</command> has been turned on the output
+ to files will not be flushed after each log entry. By default
+ all log messages are flushed.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ There are four predefined channels that are used for
+ <command>named</command>'s default logging as follows.
+ If <command>named</command> is started with the
+ <option>-L</option> then a
+ fifth channel <command>default_logfile</command> is added.
+ How they are
+ used is described in <xref linkend="the_category_phrase"/>.
+ </para>
+
+<programlisting>channel default_syslog {
+ // send to syslog's daemon facility
+ syslog daemon;
+ // only send priority info and higher
+ severity info;
+};
+
+channel default_debug {
+ // write to named.run in the working directory
+ // Note: stderr is used instead of "named.run" if
+ // the server is started with the '-g' option.
+ file "named.run";
+ // log at the server's current debug level
+ severity dynamic;
+};
+
+channel default_stderr {
+ // writes to stderr
+ stderr;
+ // only send priority info and higher
+ severity info;
+};
+
+channel null {
+ // toss anything sent to this channel
+ null;
+};
+
+channel default_logfile {
+ // this channel is only present if named is
+ // started with the -L option, whose argument
+ // provides the file name
+ file "...";
+ // log at the server's current debug level
+ severity dynamic;
+};
+</programlisting>
+
+ <para>
+ The <command>default_debug</command> channel has the
+ special
+ property that it only produces output when the server's debug
+ level is
+ nonzero. It normally writes to a file called <filename>named.run</filename>
+ in the server's working directory.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ For security reasons, when the <option>-u</option>
+ command line option is used, the <filename>named.run</filename> file
+ is created only after <command>named</command> has
+ changed to the
+ new UID, and any debug output generated while <command>named</command> is
+ starting up and still running as root is discarded. If you need
+ to capture this output, you must run the server with the <option>-L</option>
+ option to specify a default logfile, or the <option>-g</option>
+ option to log to standard error which you can redirect to a file.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Once a channel is defined, it cannot be redefined. Thus you
+ cannot alter the built-in channels directly, but you can modify
+ the default logging by pointing categories at channels you have
+ defined.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section xml:id="the_category_phrase"><info><title>The <command>category</command> Phrase</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ There are many categories, so you can send the logs you want
+ to see wherever you want, without seeing logs you don't want. If
+ you don't specify a list of channels for a category, then log
+ messages
+ in that category will be sent to the <command>default</command> category
+ instead. If you don't specify a default category, the following
+ "default default" is used:
+ </para>
+
+<programlisting>category default { default_syslog; default_debug; };
+</programlisting>
+
+ <para>
+ If you start <command>named</command> with the
+ <option>-L</option> option then the default category is:
+ </para>
+
+<programlisting>category default { default_logfile; default_debug; };
+</programlisting>
+
+ <para>
+ As an example, let's say you want to log security events to
+ a file, but you also want keep the default logging behavior. You'd
+ specify the following:
+ </para>
+
+<programlisting>channel my_security_channel {
+ file "my_security_file";
+ severity info;
+};
+category security {
+ my_security_channel;
+ default_syslog;
+ default_debug;
+};</programlisting>
+
+ <para>
+ To discard all messages in a category, specify the <command>null</command> channel:
+ </para>
+
+<programlisting>category xfer-out { null; };
+category notify { null; };
+</programlisting>
+
+ <para>
+ Following are the available categories and brief descriptions
+ of the types of log information they contain. More
+ categories may be added in future <acronym>BIND</acronym> releases.
+ </para>
+ <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="logging-categories.xml"/>
+ </section>
+ <section xml:id="query_errors"><info><title>The <command>query-errors</command> Category</title></info>
+ <para>
+ The <command>query-errors</command> category is
+ specifically intended for debugging purposes: To identify
+ why and how specific queries result in responses which
+ indicate an error.
+ Messages of this category are therefore only logged
+ with <command>debug</command> levels.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ At the debug levels of 1 or higher, each response with the
+ rcode of SERVFAIL is logged as follows:
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <computeroutput>client 127.0.0.1#61502: query failed (SERVFAIL) for www.example.com/IN/AAAA at query.c:3880</computeroutput>
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ This means an error resulting in SERVFAIL was
+ detected at line 3880 of source file
+ <filename>query.c</filename>.
+ Log messages of this level will particularly
+ help identify the cause of SERVFAIL for an
+ authoritative server.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ At the debug levels of 2 or higher, detailed context
+ information of recursive resolutions that resulted in
+ SERVFAIL is logged.
+ The log message will look like as follows:
+ </para>
+ <para>
+<!-- NOTE: newlines and some spaces added so this would fit on page -->
+ <programlisting>
+fetch completed at resolver.c:2970 for www.example.com/A
+in 30.000183: timed out/success [domain:example.com,
+referral:2,restart:7,qrysent:8,timeout:5,lame:0,neterr:0,
+badresp:1,adberr:0,findfail:0,valfail:0]
+ </programlisting>
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The first part before the colon shows that a recursive
+ resolution for AAAA records of www.example.com completed
+ in 30.000183 seconds and the final result that led to the
+ SERVFAIL was determined at line 2970 of source file
+ <filename>resolver.c</filename>.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The following part shows the detected final result and the
+ latest result of DNSSEC validation.
+ The latter is always success when no validation attempt
+ is made.
+ In this example, this query resulted in SERVFAIL probably
+ because all name servers are down or unreachable, leading
+ to a timeout in 30 seconds.
+ DNSSEC validation was probably not attempted.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The last part enclosed in square brackets shows statistics
+ information collected for this particular resolution
+ attempt.
+ The <varname>domain</varname> field shows the deepest zone
+ that the resolver reached;
+ it is the zone where the error was finally detected.
+ The meaning of the other fields is summarized in the
+ following table.
+ </para>
+
+ <informaltable colsep="0" rowsep="0">
+ <tgroup cols="2" colsep="0" rowsep="0" tgroupstyle="4Level-table">
+ <colspec colname="1" colnum="1" colsep="0" colwidth="1.150in"/>
+ <colspec colname="2" colnum="2" colsep="0" colwidth="3.350in"/>
+ <tbody>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><varname>referral</varname></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ The number of referrals the resolver received
+ throughout the resolution process.
+ In the above example this is 2, which are most
+ likely com and example.com.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><varname>restart</varname></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ The number of cycles that the resolver tried
+ remote servers at the <varname>domain</varname>
+ zone.
+ In each cycle the resolver sends one query
+ (possibly resending it, depending on the response)
+ to each known name server of
+ the <varname>domain</varname> zone.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><varname>qrysent</varname></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ The number of queries the resolver sent at the
+ <varname>domain</varname> zone.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><varname>timeout</varname></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ The number of timeouts since the resolver
+ received the last response.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><varname>lame</varname></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ The number of lame servers the resolver detected
+ at the <varname>domain</varname> zone.
+ A server is detected to be lame either by an
+ invalid response or as a result of lookup in
+ BIND9's address database (ADB), where lame
+ servers are cached.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><varname>neterr</varname></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ The number of erroneous results that the
+ resolver encountered in sending queries
+ at the <varname>domain</varname> zone.
+ One common case is the remote server is
+ unreachable and the resolver receives an ICMP
+ unreachable error message.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><varname>badresp</varname></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ The number of unexpected responses (other than
+ <varname>lame</varname>) to queries sent by the
+ resolver at the <varname>domain</varname> zone.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><varname>adberr</varname></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Failures in finding remote server addresses
+ of the <varname>domain</varname> zone in the ADB.
+ One common case of this is that the remote
+ server's name does not have any address records.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><varname>findfail</varname></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Failures of resolving remote server addresses.
+ This is a total number of failures throughout
+ the resolution process.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><varname>valfail</varname></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Failures of DNSSEC validation.
+ Validation failures are counted throughout
+ the resolution process (not limited to
+ the <varname>domain</varname> zone), but should
+ only happen in <varname>domain</varname>.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ </tbody>
+ </tgroup>
+ </informaltable>
+ <para>
+ At the debug levels of 3 or higher, the same messages
+ as those at the debug 1 level are logged for other errors
+ than SERVFAIL.
+ Note that negative responses such as NXDOMAIN are not
+ regarded as errors here.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ At the debug levels of 4 or higher, the same messages
+ as those at the debug 2 level are logged for other errors
+ than SERVFAIL.
+ Unlike the above case of level 3, messages are logged for
+ negative responses.
+ This is because any unexpected results can be difficult to
+ debug in the recursion case.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+ </section>
+
+ <section xml:id="lwres_grammar"><info><title><command>lwres</command> Statement Grammar</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ This is the grammar of the <command>lwres</command>
+ statement in the <filename>named.conf</filename> file:
+ </para>
+
+<programlisting><command>lwres {</command>
+ [ <command>listen-on {</command>
+ ( <replaceable>ip_addr</replaceable> [ <command>port</command> <replaceable>ip_port</replaceable> ] [ <command>dscp</command> <replaceable>ip_dscp</replaceable> ] <command>;</command> )
+ ...
+ <command>};</command> ]
+ [ <command>view</command> <replaceable>view_name</replaceable><command>;</command> ]
+ [ <command>search {</command> <replaceable>domain_name</replaceable> <command>;</command> ... <command>};</command> ]
+ [ <command>ndots</command> <replaceable>number</replaceable><command>;</command> ]
+ [ <command>lwres-tasks</command> <replaceable>number</replaceable><command>;</command> ]
+ [ <command>lwres-clients</command> <replaceable>number</replaceable><command>;</command> ]
+<command>};</command>
+</programlisting>
+
+ </section>
+ <section xml:id="lwres_statement"><info><title><command>lwres</command> Statement Definition and Usage</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ The <command>lwres</command> statement configures the
+ name
+ server to also act as a lightweight resolver server. (See
+ <xref linkend="lwresd"/>.) There may be multiple
+ <command>lwres</command> statements configuring
+ lightweight resolver servers with different properties.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The <command>listen-on</command> statement specifies a
+ list of
+ IPv4 addresses (and ports) that this instance of a lightweight
+ resolver daemon
+ should accept requests on. If no port is specified, port 921 is
+ used.
+ If this statement is omitted, requests will be accepted on
+ 127.0.0.1,
+ port 921.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The <command>view</command> statement binds this
+ instance of a
+ lightweight resolver daemon to a view in the DNS namespace, so that
+ the
+ response will be constructed in the same manner as a normal DNS
+ query
+ matching this view. If this statement is omitted, the default view
+ is
+ used, and if there is no default view, an error is triggered.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The <command>search</command> statement is equivalent to
+ the
+ <command>search</command> statement in
+ <filename>/etc/resolv.conf</filename>. It provides a
+ list of domains
+ which are appended to relative names in queries.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The <command>ndots</command> statement is equivalent to
+ the
+ <command>ndots</command> statement in
+ <filename>/etc/resolv.conf</filename>. It indicates the
+ minimum
+ number of dots in a relative domain name that should result in an
+ exact match lookup before search path elements are appended.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The <option>lwres-tasks</option> statement specifies the number
+ of worker threads the lightweight resolver will dedicate to serving
+ clients. By default the number is the same as the number of CPUs on
+ the system; this can be overridden using the <option>-n</option>
+ command line option when starting the server.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The <option>lwres-clients</option> specifies
+ the number of client objects per thread the lightweight
+ resolver should create to serve client queries.
+ By default, if the lightweight resolver runs as a part
+ of <command>named</command>, 256 client objects are
+ created for each task; if it runs as <command>lwresd</command>,
+ 1024 client objects are created for each thread. The maximum
+ value is 32768; higher values will be silently ignored and
+ the maximum will be used instead.
+ Note that setting too high a value may overconsume
+ system resources.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The maximum number of client queries that the lightweight
+ resolver can handle at any one time equals
+ <option>lwres-tasks</option> times <option>lwres-clients</option>.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+ <section xml:id="masters_grammar"><info><title><command>masters</command> Statement Grammar</title></info>
+ <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="masters.grammar.xml"/>
+ </section>
+
+ <section xml:id="masters_statement"><info><title><command>masters</command> Statement Definition and
+ Usage</title></info>
+
+ <para><command>masters</command>
+ lists allow for a common set of masters to be easily used by
+ multiple stub and slave zones in their <command>masters</command>
+ or <command>also-notify</command> lists.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section xml:id="options_grammar"><info><title><command>options</command> Statement Grammar</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ This is the grammar of the <command>options</command>
+ statement in the <filename>named.conf</filename> file:
+ </para>
+ <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="options.grammar.xml"/>
+ </section>
+
+ <section xml:id="options"><info><title><command>options</command> Statement Definition and
+ Usage</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ The <command>options</command> statement sets up global
+ options
+ to be used by <acronym>BIND</acronym>. This statement
+ may appear only
+ once in a configuration file. If there is no <command>options</command>
+ statement, an options block with each option set to its default will
+ be used.
+ </para>
+
+ <variablelist>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>attach-cache</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Allows multiple views to share a single cache
+ database.
+ Each view has its own cache database by default, but
+ if multiple views have the same operational policy
+ for name resolution and caching, those views can
+ share a single cache to save memory and possibly
+ improve resolution efficiency by using this option.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The <command>attach-cache</command> option
+ may also be specified in <command>view</command>
+ statements, in which case it overrides the
+ global <command>attach-cache</command> option.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The <replaceable>cache_name</replaceable> specifies
+ the cache to be shared.
+ When the <command>named</command> server configures
+ views which are supposed to share a cache, it
+ creates a cache with the specified name for the
+ first view of these sharing views.
+ The rest of the views will simply refer to the
+ already created cache.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ One common configuration to share a cache would be to
+ allow all views to share a single cache.
+ This can be done by specifying
+ the <command>attach-cache</command> as a global
+ option with an arbitrary name.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Another possible operation is to allow a subset of
+ all views to share a cache while the others to
+ retain their own caches.
+ For example, if there are three views A, B, and C,
+ and only A and B should share a cache, specify the
+ <command>attach-cache</command> option as a view A (or
+ B)'s option, referring to the other view name:
+ </para>
+
+<programlisting>
+ view "A" {
+ // this view has its own cache
+ ...
+ };
+ view "B" {
+ // this view refers to A's cache
+ attach-cache "A";
+ };
+ view "C" {
+ // this view has its own cache
+ ...
+ };
+</programlisting>
+
+ <para>
+ Views that share a cache must have the same policy
+ on configurable parameters that may affect caching.
+ The current implementation requires the following
+ configurable options be consistent among these
+ views:
+ <command>check-names</command>,
+ <command>cleaning-interval</command>,
+ <command>dnssec-accept-expired</command>,
+ <command>dnssec-validation</command>,
+ <command>max-cache-ttl</command>,
+ <command>max-ncache-ttl</command>,
+ <command>max-cache-size</command>, and
+ <command>zero-no-soa-ttl</command>.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Note that there may be other parameters that may
+ cause confusion if they are inconsistent for
+ different views that share a single cache.
+ For example, if these views define different sets of
+ forwarders that can return different answers for the
+ same question, sharing the answer does not make
+ sense or could even be harmful.
+ It is administrator's responsibility to ensure
+ configuration differences in different views do
+ not cause disruption with a shared cache.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>directory</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The working directory of the server.
+ Any non-absolute pathnames in the configuration file will
+ be taken as relative to this directory. The default
+ location for most server output files
+ (e.g. <filename>named.run</filename>) is this directory.
+ If a directory is not specified, the working directory
+ defaults to `<filename>.</filename>', the directory from
+ which the server was started. The directory specified
+ should be an absolute path. It is
+ <emphasis>strongly recommended</emphasis>
+ that the directory be writable by the effective user
+ ID of the <command>named</command> process.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>dnstap</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <command>dnstap</command> is a fast, flexible method
+ for capturing and logging DNS traffic. Developed by
+ Robert Edmonds at Farsight Security, Inc., and supported
+ by multiple DNS implementations, <command>dnstap</command>
+ uses
+ <command>libfstrm</command> (a lightweight high-speed
+ framing library, see
+ <link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="https://github.com/farsightsec/fstrm">https://github.com/farsightsec/fstrm</link>) to send
+ event payloads which are encoded using Protocol Buffers
+ (<command>libprotobuf-c</command>, a mechanism for
+ serializing structured data developed
+ by Google, Inc.; see
+ <link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/">https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers</link>).
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ To enable <command>dnstap</command> at compile time,
+ the <command>fstrm</command> and <command>protobuf-c</command>
+ libraries must be available, and BIND must be configured with
+ <option>--enable-dnstap</option>.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The <command>dnstap</command> option is a bracketed list
+ of message types to be logged. These may be set differently
+ for each view. Supported types are <literal>client</literal>,
+ <literal>auth</literal>, <literal>resolver</literal>, and
+ <literal>forwarder</literal>. Specifying type
+ <literal>all</literal> will cause all <command>dnstap</command>
+ messages to be logged, regardless of type.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Each type may take an additional argument to indicate whether
+ to log <literal>query</literal> messages or
+ <literal>response</literal> messages; if not specified,
+ both queries and responses are logged.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Example: To log all authoritative queries and responses,
+ recursive client responses, and upstream queries sent by
+ the resolver, use:
+<programlisting>dnstap {
+ auth;
+ client response;
+ resolver query;
+};
+</programlisting>
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Logged <command>dnstap</command> messages can be parsed
+ using the <command>dnstap-read</command> utility (see
+ <xref linkend="man.dnstap-read"/> for details).
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ For more information on <command>dnstap</command>, see
+ <link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://dnstap.info">http://dnstap.info</link>.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The fstrm library has a number of tunables that are exposed
+ in <filename>named.conf</filename>, and can be modified
+ if necessary to improve performance or prevent loss of data.
+ These are:
+ </para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <simpara>
+ <command>fstrm-set-buffer-hint</command>: The
+ threshold number of bytes to accumulate in the output
+ buffer before forcing a buffer flush. The minimum is
+ 1024, the maximum is 65536, and the default is 8192.
+ </simpara>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <simpara>
+ <command>fstrm-set-flush-timeout</command>: The number
+ of seconds to allow unflushed data to remain in the
+ output buffer. The minimum is 1 second, the maximum is
+ 600 seconds (10 minutes), and the default is 1 second.
+ </simpara>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <simpara>
+ <command>fstrm-set-output-notify-threshold</command>:
+ The number of outstanding queue entries to allow on
+ an input queue before waking the I/O thread.
+ The minimum is 1 and the default is 32.
+ </simpara>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <simpara>
+ <command>fstrm-set-output-queue-model</command>:
+ Controls the queuing semantics to use for queue
+ objects. The default is <literal>mpsc</literal>
+ (multiple producer, single consumer); the other
+ option is <literal>spsc</literal> (single producer,
+ single consumer).
+ </simpara>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <simpara>
+ <command>fstrm-set-input-queue-size</command>: The
+ number of queue entries to allocate for each
+ input queue. This value must be a power of 2.
+ The minimum is 2, the maximum is 16384, and
+ the default is 512.
+ </simpara>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <simpara>
+ <command>fstrm-set-output-queue-size</command>:
+ The number of queue entries to allocate for each
+ output queue. The minimum is 2, the maximum is
+ system-dependent and based on <option>IOV_MAX</option>,
+ and the default is 64.
+ </simpara>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <simpara>
+ <command>fstrm-set-reopen-interval</command>:
+ The number of seconds to wait between attempts to
+ reopen a closed output stream. The minimum is 1 second,
+ the maximum is 600 seconds (10 minutes), and the default
+ is 5 seconds.
+ </simpara>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ <para>
+ Note that all of the above minimum, maximum, and default
+ values are set by the <command>libfstrm</command> library,
+ and may be subject to change in future versions of the
+ library. See the <command>libfstrm</command> documentation
+ for more information.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>dnstap-output</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Configures the path to which the <command>dnstap</command>
+ frame stream will be sent if <command>dnstap</command>
+ is enabled at compile time and active.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The first argument is either <literal>file</literal> or
+ <literal>unix</literal>, indicating whether the destination
+ is a file or a UNIX domain socket. The second argument
+ is the path of the file or socket. (Note: when using a
+ socket, <command>dnstap</command> messages will
+ only be sent if another process such as
+ <command>fstrm_capture</command>
+ (provided with <command>libfstrm</command>) is listening on
+ the socket.)
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <command>dnstap-output</command> can only be set globally
+ in <command>options</command>. Currently, it can only be
+ set once while <command>named</command> is running;
+ once set, it cannot be changed by
+ <command>rndc reload</command> or
+ <command>rndc reconfig</command>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>dnstap-identity</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Specifies an <command>identity</command> string to send in
+ <command>dnstap</command> messages. If set to
+ <literal>hostname</literal>, which is the default, the
+ server's hostname will be sent. If set to
+ <literal>none</literal>, no identity string will be sent.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>dnstap-version</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Specifies a <command>version</command> string to send in
+ <command>dnstap</command> messages. The default is the
+ version number of the BIND release. If set to
+ <literal>none</literal>, no version string will be sent.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>geoip-directory</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Specifies the directory containing GeoIP
+ <filename>.dat</filename> database files for GeoIP
+ initialization. By default, this option is unset
+ and the GeoIP support will use libGeoIP's
+ built-in directory.
+ (For details, see <xref linkend="acl"/> about the
+ <command>geoip</command> ACL.)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>key-directory</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ When performing dynamic update of secure zones, the
+ directory where the public and private DNSSEC key files
+ should be found, if different than the current working
+ directory. (Note that this option has no effect on the
+ paths for files containing non-DNSSEC keys such as
+ <filename>bind.keys</filename>,
+ <filename>rndc.key</filename> or
+ <filename>session.key</filename>.)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>lmdb-mapsize</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ When <command>named</command> is built with liblmdb,
+ this option sets a maximum size for the memory map of
+ the new-zone database (NZD) in LMDB database format.
+ This database is used to store configuration information
+ for zones added using <command>rndc addzone</command>.
+ Note that this is not the NZD database file size, but
+ the largest size that the database may grow to.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Because the database file is memory mapped, its size is
+ limited by the address space of the named process. The
+ default of 32 megabytes was chosen to be usable with
+ 32-bit <command>named</command> builds. The largest
+ permitted value is 1 terabyte. Given typical zone
+ configurations without elaborate ACLs, a 32 MB NZD file
+ ought to be able to hold configurations of about 100,000
+ zones.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>managed-keys-directory</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Specifies the directory in which to store the files that
+ track managed DNSSEC keys. By default, this is the working
+ directory. The directory <emphasis>must</emphasis>
+ be writable by the effective user ID of the
+ <command>named</command> process.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ If <command>named</command> is not configured to use views,
+ then managed keys for the server will be tracked in a single
+ file called <filename>managed-keys.bind</filename>.
+ Otherwise, managed keys will be tracked in separate files,
+ one file per view; each file name will be the view name
+ (or, if it contains characters that are incompatible with
+ use as a file name, the SHA256 hash of the view name),
+ followed by the extension
+ <filename>.mkeys</filename>.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ (Note: in previous releases, file names for views
+ always used the SHA256 hash of the view name. To ensure
+ compatibility after upgrade, if a file using the old
+ name format is found to exist, it will be used instead
+ of the new format.)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>named-xfer</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <emphasis>This option is obsolete.</emphasis> It
+ was used in <acronym>BIND</acronym> 8 to specify
+ the pathname to the <command>named-xfer</command>
+ program. In <acronym>BIND</acronym> 9, no separate
+ <command>named-xfer</command> program is needed;
+ its functionality is built into the name server.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>tkey-gssapi-keytab</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The KRB5 keytab file to use for GSS-TSIG updates. If
+ this option is set and tkey-gssapi-credential is not
+ set, then updates will be allowed with any key
+ matching a principal in the specified keytab.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>tkey-gssapi-credential</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The security credential with which the server should
+ authenticate keys requested by the GSS-TSIG protocol.
+ Currently only Kerberos 5 authentication is available
+ and the credential is a Kerberos principal which the
+ server can acquire through the default system key
+ file, normally <filename>/etc/krb5.keytab</filename>.
+ The location keytab file can be overridden using the
+ tkey-gssapi-keytab option. Normally this principal is
+ of the form "<userinput>DNS/</userinput><varname>server.domain</varname>".
+ To use GSS-TSIG, <command>tkey-domain</command> must
+ also be set if a specific keytab is not set with
+ tkey-gssapi-keytab.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>tkey-domain</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The domain appended to the names of all shared keys
+ generated with <command>TKEY</command>. When a
+ client requests a <command>TKEY</command> exchange,
+ it may or may not specify the desired name for the
+ key. If present, the name of the shared key will
+ be <varname>client specified part</varname> +
+ <varname>tkey-domain</varname>. Otherwise, the
+ name of the shared key will be <varname>random hex
+ digits</varname> + <varname>tkey-domain</varname>.
+ In most cases, the <command>domainname</command>
+ should be the server's domain name, or an otherwise
+ non-existent subdomain like
+ "_tkey.<varname>domainname</varname>". If you are
+ using GSS-TSIG, this variable must be defined, unless
+ you specify a specific keytab using tkey-gssapi-keytab.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>tkey-dhkey</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The Diffie-Hellman key used by the server
+ to generate shared keys with clients using the Diffie-Hellman
+ mode
+ of <command>TKEY</command>. The server must be
+ able to load the
+ public and private keys from files in the working directory.
+ In
+ most cases, the <varname>key_name</varname> should be the server's host name.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>cache-file</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ This is for testing only. Do not use.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>dump-file</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The pathname of the file the server dumps
+ the database to when instructed to do so with
+ <command>rndc dumpdb</command>.
+ If not specified, the default is <filename>named_dump.db</filename>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>memstatistics-file</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The pathname of the file the server writes memory
+ usage statistics to on exit. If not specified,
+ the default is <filename>named.memstats</filename>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>lock-file</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The pathname of a file on which <command>named</command> will
+ attempt to acquire a file lock when starting up for
+ the first time; if unsuccessful, the server will
+ will terminate, under the assumption that another
+ server is already running. If not specified, the default is
+ <filename>/var/run/named/named.lock</filename>.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Specifying <command>lock-file none</command> disables the
+ use of a lock file. <command>lock-file</command> is
+ ignored if <command>named</command> was run using the <option>-X</option>
+ option, which overrides it. Changes to
+ <command>lock-file</command> are ignored if
+ <command>named</command> is being reloaded or
+ reconfigured; it is only effective when the server is
+ first started up.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>pid-file</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The pathname of the file the server writes its process ID
+ in. If not specified, the default is
+ <filename>/var/run/named/named.pid</filename>.
+ The PID file is used by programs that want to send signals to
+ the running
+ name server. Specifying <command>pid-file none</command> disables the
+ use of a PID file — no file will be written and any
+ existing one will be removed. Note that <command>none</command>
+ is a keyword, not a filename, and therefore is not enclosed
+ in
+ double quotes.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>recursing-file</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The pathname of the file the server dumps
+ the queries that are currently recursing when instructed
+ to do so with <command>rndc recursing</command>.
+ If not specified, the default is <filename>named.recursing</filename>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>statistics-file</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The pathname of the file the server appends statistics
+ to when instructed to do so using <command>rndc stats</command>.
+ If not specified, the default is <filename>named.stats</filename> in the
+ server's current directory. The format of the file is
+ described
+ in <xref linkend="statsfile"/>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>bindkeys-file</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The pathname of a file to override the built-in trusted
+ keys provided by <command>named</command>.
+ See the discussion of <command>dnssec-validation</command>
+ for details. If not specified, the default is
+ <filename>/etc/bind.keys</filename>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>secroots-file</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The pathname of the file the server dumps
+ security roots to when instructed to do so with
+ <command>rndc secroots</command>.
+ If not specified, the default is
+ <filename>named.secroots</filename>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>session-keyfile</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The pathname of the file into which to write a TSIG
+ session key generated by <command>named</command> for use by
+ <command>nsupdate -l</command>. If not specified, the
+ default is <filename>/var/run/named/session.key</filename>.
+ (See <xref linkend="dynamic_update_policies"/>, and in
+ particular the discussion of the
+ <command>update-policy</command> statement's
+ <userinput>local</userinput> option for more
+ information about this feature.)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>session-keyname</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The key name to use for the TSIG session key.
+ If not specified, the default is "local-ddns".
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>session-keyalg</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The algorithm to use for the TSIG session key.
+ Valid values are hmac-sha1, hmac-sha224, hmac-sha256,
+ hmac-sha384, hmac-sha512 and hmac-md5. If not
+ specified, the default is hmac-sha256.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>port</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The UDP/TCP port number the server uses for
+ receiving and sending DNS protocol traffic.
+ The default is 53. This option is mainly intended for server
+ testing;
+ a server using a port other than 53 will not be able to
+ communicate with
+ the global DNS.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>dscp</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The global Differentiated Services Code Point (DSCP)
+ value to classify outgoing DNS traffic on operating
+ systems that support DSCP. Valid values are 0 through 63.
+ It is not configured by default.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>random-device</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The source of entropy to be used by the server. Entropy is
+ primarily needed
+ for DNSSEC operations, such as TKEY transactions and dynamic
+ update of signed
+ zones. This options specifies the device (or file) from which
+ to read
+ entropy. If this is a file, operations requiring entropy will
+ fail when the
+ file has been exhausted. If not specified, the default value
+ is
+ <filename>/dev/random</filename>
+ (or equivalent) when present, and none otherwise. The
+ <command>random-device</command> option takes
+ effect during
+ the initial configuration load at server startup time and
+ is ignored on subsequent reloads.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>preferred-glue</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ If specified, the listed type (A or AAAA) will be emitted
+ before other glue
+ in the additional section of a query response.
+ The default is to prefer A records when responding
+ to queries that arrived via IPv4 and AAAA when
+ responding to queries that arrived via IPv6.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry xml:id="root_delegation_only">
+ <term><command>root-delegation-only</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Turn on enforcement of delegation-only in TLDs
+ (top level domains) and root zones with an optional
+ exclude list.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ DS queries are expected to be made to and be answered by
+ delegation only zones. Such queries and responses are
+ treated as an exception to delegation-only processing
+ and are not converted to NXDOMAIN responses provided
+ a CNAME is not discovered at the query name.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ If a delegation only zone server also serves a child
+ zone it is not always possible to determine whether
+ an answer comes from the delegation only zone or the
+ child zone. SOA NS and DNSKEY records are apex
+ only records and a matching response that contains
+ these records or DS is treated as coming from a
+ child zone. RRSIG records are also examined to see
+ if they are signed by a child zone or not. The
+ authority section is also examined to see if there
+ is evidence that the answer is from the child zone.
+ Answers that are determined to be from a child zone
+ are not converted to NXDOMAIN responses. Despite
+ all these checks there is still a possibility of
+ false negatives when a child zone is being served.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Similarly false positives can arise from empty nodes
+ (no records at the name) in the delegation only zone
+ when the query type is not ANY.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Note some TLDs are not delegation only (e.g. "DE", "LV",
+ "US" and "MUSEUM"). This list is not exhaustive.
+ </para>
+
+<programlisting>
+options {
+ root-delegation-only exclude { "de"; "lv"; "us"; "museum"; };
+};
+</programlisting>
+
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>disable-algorithms</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Disable the specified DNSSEC algorithms at and below the
+ specified name.
+ Multiple <command>disable-algorithms</command>
+ statements are allowed.
+ Only the best match <command>disable-algorithms</command>
+ clause will be used to determine which algorithms are used.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ If all supported algorithms are disabled, the zones covered
+ by the <command>disable-algorithms</command> will be treated
+ as insecure.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>disable-ds-digests</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Disable the specified DS/DLV digest types at and below the
+ specified name.
+ Multiple <command>disable-ds-digests</command>
+ statements are allowed.
+ Only the best match <command>disable-ds-digests</command>
+ clause will be used to determine which digest types are used.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ If all supported digest types are disabled, the zones covered
+ by the <command>disable-ds-digests</command> will be treated
+ as insecure.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>dnssec-lookaside</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ When set, <command>dnssec-lookaside</command> provides the
+ validator with an alternate method to validate DNSKEY
+ records at the top of a zone. When a DNSKEY is at or
+ below a domain specified by the deepest
+ <command>dnssec-lookaside</command>, and the normal DNSSEC
+ validation has left the key untrusted, the trust-anchor
+ will be appended to the key name and a DLV record will be
+ looked up to see if it can validate the key. If the DLV
+ record validates a DNSKEY (similarly to the way a DS
+ record does) the DNSKEY RRset is deemed to be trusted.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ If <command>dnssec-lookaside</command> is set to
+ <userinput>no</userinput>, then dnssec-lookaside
+ is not used.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ NOTE: The ISC-provided DLV service at
+ <literal>dlv.isc.org</literal>, has been shut down.
+ The <command>dnssec-lookaside auto;</command>
+ configuration option, which set <command>named</command>
+ up to use ISC DLV with minimal configuration, has
+ accordingly been removed.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>dnssec-must-be-secure</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Specify hierarchies which must be or may not be secure
+ (signed and validated). If <userinput>yes</userinput>,
+ then <command>named</command> will only accept answers if
+ they are secure. If <userinput>no</userinput>, then normal
+ DNSSEC validation applies allowing for insecure answers to
+ be accepted. The specified domain must be under a
+ <command>trusted-keys</command> or
+ <command>managed-keys</command> statement, or
+ <command>dnssec-validation auto</command> must be active.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>dns64</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ This directive instructs <command>named</command> to
+ return mapped IPv4 addresses to AAAA queries when
+ there are no AAAA records. It is intended to be
+ used in conjunction with a NAT64. Each
+ <command>dns64</command> defines one DNS64 prefix.
+ Multiple DNS64 prefixes can be defined.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Compatible IPv6 prefixes have lengths of 32, 40, 48, 56,
+ 64 and 96 as per RFC 6052.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Additionally a reverse IP6.ARPA zone will be created for
+ the prefix to provide a mapping from the IP6.ARPA names
+ to the corresponding IN-ADDR.ARPA names using synthesized
+ CNAMEs. <command>dns64-server</command> and
+ <command>dns64-contact</command> can be used to specify
+ the name of the server and contact for the zones. These
+ are settable at the view / options level. These are
+ not settable on a per-prefix basis.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Each <command>dns64</command> supports an optional
+ <command>clients</command> ACL that determines which
+ clients are affected by this directive. If not defined,
+ it defaults to <userinput>any;</userinput>.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Each <command>dns64</command> supports an optional
+ <command>mapped</command> ACL that selects which
+ IPv4 addresses are to be mapped in the corresponding
+ A RRset. If not defined it defaults to
+ <userinput>any;</userinput>.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Normally, DNS64 won't apply to a domain name that
+ owns one or more AAAA records; these records will
+ simply be returned. The optional
+ <command>exclude</command> ACL allows specification
+ of a list of IPv6 addresses that will be ignored
+ if they appear in a domain name's AAAA records, and
+ DNS64 will be applied to any A records the domain
+ name owns. If not defined, <command>exclude</command>
+ defaults to ::ffff:0.0.0.0/96.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ A optional <command>suffix</command> can also
+ be defined to set the bits trailing the mapped
+ IPv4 address bits. By default these bits are
+ set to <userinput>::</userinput>. The bits
+ matching the prefix and mapped IPv4 address
+ must be zero.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ If <command>recursive-only</command> is set to
+ <command>yes</command> the DNS64 synthesis will
+ only happen for recursive queries. The default
+ is <command>no</command>.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ If <command>break-dnssec</command> is set to
+ <command>yes</command> the DNS64 synthesis will
+ happen even if the result, if validated, would
+ cause a DNSSEC validation failure. If this option
+ is set to <command>no</command> (the default), the DO
+ is set on the incoming query, and there are RRSIGs on
+ the applicable records, then synthesis will not happen.
+ </para>
+<programlisting>
+ acl rfc1918 { 10/8; 192.168/16; 172.16/12; };
+
+ dns64 64:FF9B::/96 {
+ clients { any; };
+ mapped { !rfc1918; any; };
+ exclude { 64:FF9B::/96; ::ffff:0000:0000/96; };
+ suffix ::;
+ };
+</programlisting>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>dnssec-loadkeys-interval</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ When a zone is configured with <command>auto-dnssec
+ maintain;</command> its key repository must be checked
+ periodically to see if any new keys have been added
+ or any existing keys' timing metadata has been updated
+ (see <xref linkend="man.dnssec-keygen"/> and
+ <xref linkend="man.dnssec-settime"/>). The
+ <command>dnssec-loadkeys-interval</command> option
+ sets the frequency of automatic repository checks, in
+ minutes. The default is <literal>60</literal> (1 hour),
+ the minimum is <literal>1</literal> (1 minute), and the
+ maximum is <literal>1440</literal> (24 hours); any higher
+ value is silently reduced.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>dnssec-update-mode</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ If this option is set to its default value of
+ <literal>maintain</literal> in a zone of type
+ <literal>master</literal> which is DNSSEC-signed
+ and configured to allow dynamic updates (see
+ <xref linkend="dynamic_update_policies"/>), and
+ if <command>named</command> has access to the
+ private signing key(s) for the zone, then
+ <command>named</command> will automatically sign all new
+ or changed records and maintain signatures for the zone
+ by regenerating RRSIG records whenever they approach
+ their expiration date.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ If the option is changed to <literal>no-resign</literal>,
+ then <command>named</command> will sign all new or
+ changed records, but scheduled maintenance of
+ signatures is disabled.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ With either of these settings, <command>named</command>
+ will reject updates to a DNSSEC-signed zone when the
+ signing keys are inactive or unavailable to
+ <command>named</command>. (A planned third option,
+ <literal>external</literal>, will disable all automatic
+ signing and allow DNSSEC data to be submitted into a zone
+ via dynamic update; this is not yet implemented.)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>nta-lifetime</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Species the default lifetime, in seconds,
+ that will be used for negative trust anchors added
+ via <command>rndc nta</command>.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ A negative trust anchor selectively disables
+ DNSSEC validation for zones that are known to be
+ failing because of misconfiguration rather than
+ an attack. When data to be validated is
+ at or below an active NTA (and above any other
+ configured trust anchors), <command>named</command> will
+ abort the DNSSEC validation process and treat the data as
+ insecure rather than bogus. This continues until the
+ NTA's lifetime is elapsed. NTAs persist
+ across <command>named</command> restarts.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ For convenience, TTL-style time unit suffixes can be
+ used to specify the NTA lifetime in seconds, minutes
+ or hours. <option>nta-lifetime</option> defaults to
+ one hour. It cannot exceed one week.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>nta-recheck</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Species how often to check whether negative
+ trust anchors added via <command>rndc nta</command>
+ are still necessary.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ A negative trust anchor is normally used when a
+ domain has stopped validating due to operator error;
+ it temporarily disables DNSSEC validation for that
+ domain. In the interest of ensuring that DNSSEC
+ validation is turned back on as soon as possible,
+ <command>named</command> will periodically send a
+ query to the domain, ignoring negative trust anchors,
+ to find out whether it can now be validated. If so,
+ the negative trust anchor is allowed to expire early.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Validity checks can be disabled for an individual
+ NTA by using <command>rndc nta -f</command>, or
+ for all NTAs by setting <option>nta-recheck</option>
+ to zero.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ For convenience, TTL-style time unit suffixes can be
+ used to specify the NTA recheck interval in seconds,
+ minutes or hours. The default is five minutes. It
+ cannot be longer than <option>nta-lifetime</option>
+ (which cannot be longer than a week).
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>max-zone-ttl</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Specifies a maximum permissible TTL value in seconds.
+ For convenience, TTL-style time unit suffixes may be
+ used to specify the maximum value.
+ When loading a zone file using a
+ <option>masterfile-format</option> of
+ <constant>text</constant> or <constant>raw</constant>,
+ any record encountered with a TTL higher than
+ <option>max-zone-ttl</option> will cause the zone to
+ be rejected.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ This is useful in DNSSEC-signed zones because when
+ rolling to a new DNSKEY, the old key needs to remain
+ available until RRSIG records have expired from
+ caches. The <option>max-zone-ttl</option> option guarantees
+ that the largest TTL in the zone will be no higher
+ than the set value.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ (NOTE: Because <constant>map</constant>-format files
+ load directly into memory, this option cannot be
+ used with them.)
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The default value is <constant>unlimited</constant>.
+ A <option>max-zone-ttl</option> of zero is treated as
+ <constant>unlimited</constant>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>serial-update-method</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Zones configured for dynamic DNS may use this
+ option to set the update method that will be used for
+ the zone serial number in the SOA record.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ With the default setting of
+ <command>serial-update-method increment;</command>, the
+ SOA serial number will be incremented by one each time
+ the zone is updated.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ When set to
+ <command>serial-update-method unixtime;</command>, the
+ SOA serial number will be set to the number of seconds
+ since the UNIX epoch, unless the serial number is
+ already greater than or equal to that value, in which
+ case it is simply incremented by one.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ When set to
+ <command>serial-update-method date;</command>, the
+ new SOA serial number will be the current date
+ in the form "YYYYMMDD", followed by two zeroes,
+ unless the existing serial number is already greater
+ than or equal to that value, in which case it is
+ incremented by one.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>zone-statistics</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ If <userinput>full</userinput>, the server will collect
+ statistical data on all zones (unless specifically
+ turned off on a per-zone basis by specifying
+ <command>zone-statistics terse</command> or
+ <command>zone-statistics none</command>
+ in the <command>zone</command> statement).
+ The default is <userinput>terse</userinput>, providing
+ minimal statistics on zones (including name and
+ current serial number, but not query type
+ counters).
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ These statistics may be accessed via the
+ <command>statistics-channel</command> or
+ using <command>rndc stats</command>, which
+ will dump them to the file listed
+ in the <command>statistics-file</command>. See
+ also <xref linkend="statsfile"/>.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ For backward compatibility with earlier versions
+ of BIND 9, the <command>zone-statistics</command>
+ option can also accept <userinput>yes</userinput>
+ or <userinput>no</userinput>; <userinput>yes</userinput>
+ has the same meaning as <userinput>full</userinput>.
+ As of <acronym>BIND</acronym> 9.10,
+ <userinput>no</userinput> has the same meaning
+ as <userinput>none</userinput>; previously, it
+ was the same as <userinput>terse</userinput>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+
+ <section xml:id="boolean_options"><info><title>Boolean Options</title></info>
+
+ <variablelist>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>automatic-interface-scan</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ If <userinput>yes</userinput> and supported by the OS,
+ automatically rescan network interfaces when the interface
+ addresses are added or removed. The default is
+ <userinput>yes</userinput>.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Currently the OS needs to support routing sockets for
+ <command>automatic-interface-scan</command> to be
+ supported.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>allow-new-zones</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ If <userinput>yes</userinput>, then zones can be
+ added at runtime via <command>rndc addzone</command>.
+ The default is <userinput>no</userinput>.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Newly added zones' configuration parameters
+ are stored so that they can persist after the
+ server is restarted. The configuration information
+ is saved in a file called
+ <filename><replaceable>viewname</replaceable>.nzf</filename>
+ (or, if <command>named</command> is compiled with
+ liblmdb, in an LMDB database file called
+ <filename><replaceable>viewname</replaceable>.nzd</filename>).
+ <replaceable>viewname</replaceable> is the name of the
+ view, unless the view name contains characters that are
+ incompatible with use as a file name, in which case a
+ cryptographic hash of the view name is used instead.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Zones added at runtime will have their configuration
+ stored either in a new-zone file (NZF) or a new-zone
+ database (NZD) depending on whether
+ <command>named</command> was linked with
+ liblmdb at compile time.
+ See <xref linkend="man.rndc"/> for further details
+ about <command>rndc addzone</command>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>auth-nxdomain</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ If <userinput>yes</userinput>, then the <command>AA</command> bit
+ is always set on NXDOMAIN responses, even if the server is
+ not actually
+ authoritative. The default is <userinput>no</userinput>;
+ this is
+ a change from <acronym>BIND</acronym> 8. If you
+ are using very old DNS software, you
+ may need to set it to <userinput>yes</userinput>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>deallocate-on-exit</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ This option was used in <acronym>BIND</acronym>
+ 8 to enable checking
+ for memory leaks on exit. <acronym>BIND</acronym> 9 ignores the option and always performs
+ the checks.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>memstatistics</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Write memory statistics to the file specified by
+ <command>memstatistics-file</command> at exit.
+ The default is <userinput>no</userinput> unless
+ '-m record' is specified on the command line in
+ which case it is <userinput>yes</userinput>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>dialup</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ If <userinput>yes</userinput>, then the
+ server treats all zones as if they are doing zone transfers
+ across
+ a dial-on-demand dialup link, which can be brought up by
+ traffic
+ originating from this server. This has different effects
+ according
+ to zone type and concentrates the zone maintenance so that
+ it all
+ happens in a short interval, once every <command>heartbeat-interval</command> and
+ hopefully during the one call. It also suppresses some of
+ the normal
+ zone maintenance traffic. The default is <userinput>no</userinput>.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The <command>dialup</command> option
+ may also be specified in the <command>view</command> and
+ <command>zone</command> statements,
+ in which case it overrides the global <command>dialup</command>
+ option.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ If the zone is a master zone, then the server will send out a
+ NOTIFY
+ request to all the slaves (default). This should trigger the
+ zone serial
+ number check in the slave (providing it supports NOTIFY)
+ allowing the slave
+ to verify the zone while the connection is active.
+ The set of servers to which NOTIFY is sent can be controlled
+ by
+ <command>notify</command> and <command>also-notify</command>.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ If the
+ zone is a slave or stub zone, then the server will suppress
+ the regular
+ "zone up to date" (refresh) queries and only perform them
+ when the
+ <command>heartbeat-interval</command> expires in
+ addition to sending
+ NOTIFY requests.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Finer control can be achieved by using
+ <userinput>notify</userinput> which only sends NOTIFY
+ messages,
+ <userinput>notify-passive</userinput> which sends NOTIFY
+ messages and
+ suppresses the normal refresh queries, <userinput>refresh</userinput>
+ which suppresses normal refresh processing and sends refresh
+ queries
+ when the <command>heartbeat-interval</command>
+ expires, and
+ <userinput>passive</userinput> which just disables normal
+ refresh
+ processing.
+ </para>
+
+ <informaltable colsep="0" rowsep="0">
+ <tgroup cols="4" colsep="0" rowsep="0" tgroupstyle="4Level-table">
+ <colspec colname="1" colnum="1" colsep="0" colwidth="1.150in"/>
+ <colspec colname="2" colnum="2" colsep="0" colwidth="1.150in"/>
+ <colspec colname="3" colnum="3" colsep="0" colwidth="1.150in"/>
+ <colspec colname="4" colnum="4" colsep="0" colwidth="1.150in"/>
+ <tbody>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ dialup mode
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ normal refresh
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ heart-beat refresh
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="4">
+ <para>
+ heart-beat notify
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>no</command> (default)</para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ yes
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ no
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="4">
+ <para>
+ no
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>yes</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ no
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ yes
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="4">
+ <para>
+ yes
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>notify</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ yes
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ no
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="4">
+ <para>
+ yes
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>refresh</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ no
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ yes
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="4">
+ <para>
+ no
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>passive</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ no
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ no
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="4">
+ <para>
+ no
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>notify-passive</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ no
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ no
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="4">
+ <para>
+ yes
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ </tbody>
+ </tgroup>
+ </informaltable>
+
+ <para>
+ Note that normal NOTIFY processing is not affected by
+ <command>dialup</command>.
+ </para>
+
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>fake-iquery</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ In <acronym>BIND</acronym> 8, this option
+ enabled simulating the obsolete DNS query type
+ IQUERY. <acronym>BIND</acronym> 9 never does
+ IQUERY simulation.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>fetch-glue</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ This option is obsolete.
+ In BIND 8, <userinput>fetch-glue yes</userinput>
+ caused the server to attempt to fetch glue resource records
+ it
+ didn't have when constructing the additional
+ data section of a response. This is now considered a bad
+ idea
+ and BIND 9 never does it.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>flush-zones-on-shutdown</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ When the nameserver exits due receiving SIGTERM,
+ flush or do not flush any pending zone writes. The default
+ is
+ <command>flush-zones-on-shutdown</command> <userinput>no</userinput>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>geoip-use-ecs</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ When BIND is compiled with GeoIP support and configured
+ with "geoip" ACL elements, this option indicates whether
+ the EDNS Client Subnet option, if present in a request,
+ should be used for matching against the GeoIP database.
+ The default is
+ <command>geoip-use-ecs</command> <userinput>yes</userinput>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>has-old-clients</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ This option was incorrectly implemented
+ in <acronym>BIND</acronym> 8, and is ignored by <acronym>BIND</acronym> 9.
+ To achieve the intended effect
+ of
+ <command>has-old-clients</command> <userinput>yes</userinput>, specify
+ the two separate options <command>auth-nxdomain</command> <userinput>yes</userinput>
+ and <command>rfc2308-type1</command> <userinput>no</userinput> instead.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>host-statistics</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ In BIND 8, this enabled keeping of
+ statistics for every host that the name server interacts
+ with.
+ Not implemented in BIND 9.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>root-key-sentinel</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Respond to root key sentinel probes as described in
+ draft-ietf-dnsop-kskroll-sentinel-08. The default is
+ <userinput>yes</userinput>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>maintain-ixfr-base</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <emphasis>This option is obsolete</emphasis>.
+ It was used in <acronym>BIND</acronym> 8 to
+ determine whether a transaction log was
+ kept for Incremental Zone Transfer. <acronym>BIND</acronym> 9 maintains a transaction
+ log whenever possible. If you need to disable outgoing
+ incremental zone
+ transfers, use <command>provide-ixfr</command> <userinput>no</userinput>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>message-compression</command></term> <listitem>
+ <para>
+ If <userinput>yes</userinput>, DNS name compression is
+ used in responses to regular queries (not including
+ AXFR or IXFR, which always uses compression). Setting
+ this option to <userinput>no</userinput> reduces CPU
+ usage on servers and may improve throughput. However,
+ it increases response size, which may cause more queries
+ to be processed using TCP; a server with compression
+ disabled is out of compliance with RFC 1123 Section
+ 6.1.3.2. The default is <userinput>yes</userinput>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>minimal-responses</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ If set to <userinput>yes</userinput>, then when generating
+ responses the server will only add records to the authority
+ and additional data sections when they are required (e.g.
+ delegations, negative responses). This may improve the
+ performance of the server.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ When set to <userinput>no-auth</userinput>, the
+ server will omit records from the authority section
+ unless they are required, but it may still add
+ records to the additional section. When set to
+ <userinput>no-auth-recursive</userinput>, this
+ is only done if the query is recursive. These
+ settings are useful when answering stub clients,
+ which usually ignore the authority section.
+ <userinput>no-auth-recursive</userinput> is
+ designed for mixed-mode servers which handle
+ both authoritative and recursive queries.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The default is <userinput>no</userinput>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>minimal-any</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ If set to <userinput>yes</userinput>, then when
+ generating a positive response to a query of type
+ ANY over UDP, the server will reply with only one
+ of the RRsets for the query name, and its covering
+ RRSIGs if any, instead of replying with all known
+ RRsets for the name. Similarly, a query for type
+ RRSIG will be answered with the RRSIG records covering
+ only one type. This can reduce the impact of some kinds
+ of attack traffic, without harming legitimate
+ clients. (Note, however, that the RRset returned is the
+ first one found in the database; it is not necessarily
+ the smallest available RRset.)
+ Additionally, <option>minimal-responses</option> is
+ turned on for these queries, so no unnecessary records
+ will be added to the authority or additional sections.
+ The default is <userinput>no</userinput>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>multiple-cnames</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ This option was used in <acronym>BIND</acronym> 8 to allow
+ a domain name to have multiple CNAME records in violation of
+ the DNS standards. <acronym>BIND</acronym> 9.2 onwards
+ always strictly enforces the CNAME rules both in master
+ files and dynamic updates.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>notify</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ If <userinput>yes</userinput> (the default),
+ DNS NOTIFY messages are sent when a zone the server is
+ authoritative for
+ changes, see <xref linkend="notify"/>. The messages are
+ sent to the
+ servers listed in the zone's NS records (except the master
+ server identified
+ in the SOA MNAME field), and to any servers listed in the
+ <command>also-notify</command> option.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ If <userinput>master-only</userinput>, notifies are only
+ sent
+ for master zones.
+ If <userinput>explicit</userinput>, notifies are sent only
+ to
+ servers explicitly listed using <command>also-notify</command>.
+ If <userinput>no</userinput>, no notifies are sent.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The <command>notify</command> option may also be
+ specified in the <command>zone</command>
+ statement,
+ in which case it overrides the <command>options notify</command> statement.
+ It would only be necessary to turn off this option if it
+ caused slaves
+ to crash.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>notify-to-soa</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ If <userinput>yes</userinput> do not check the nameservers
+ in the NS RRset against the SOA MNAME. Normally a NOTIFY
+ message is not sent to the SOA MNAME (SOA ORIGIN) as it is
+ supposed to contain the name of the ultimate master.
+ Sometimes, however, a slave is listed as the SOA MNAME in
+ hidden master configurations and in that case you would
+ want the ultimate master to still send NOTIFY messages to
+ all the nameservers listed in the NS RRset.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>recursion</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ If <userinput>yes</userinput>, and a
+ DNS query requests recursion, then the server will attempt
+ to do
+ all the work required to answer the query. If recursion is
+ off
+ and the server does not already know the answer, it will
+ return a
+ referral response. The default is
+ <userinput>yes</userinput>.
+ Note that setting <command>recursion no</command> does not prevent
+ clients from getting data from the server's cache; it only
+ prevents new data from being cached as an effect of client
+ queries.
+ Caching may still occur as an effect the server's internal
+ operation, such as NOTIFY address lookups.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>request-nsid</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ If <userinput>yes</userinput>, then an empty EDNS(0)
+ NSID (Name Server Identifier) option is sent with all
+ queries to authoritative name servers during iterative
+ resolution. If the authoritative server returns an NSID
+ option in its response, then its contents are logged in
+ the <command>resolver</command> category at level
+ <command>info</command>.
+ The default is <userinput>no</userinput>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>request-sit</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ This experimental option is obsolete.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>require-server-cookie</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Require a valid server cookie before sending a full
+ response to a UDP request from a cookie aware client.
+ BADCOOKIE is sent if there is a bad or no existent
+ server cookie.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>answer-cookie</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ When set to the default value of <userinput>yes</userinput>,
+ COOKIE EDNS options will be sent when applicable in
+ replies to client queries. If set to
+ <userinput>no</userinput>, COOKIE EDNS options will not
+ be sent in replies. This can only be set at the global
+ options level, not per-view.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <command>answer-cookie no</command> is only intended as a
+ temporary measure, for use when <command>named</command>
+ shares an IP address with other servers that do not yet
+ support DNS COOKIE. A mismatch between servers on the
+ same address is not expected to cause operational
+ problems, but the option to disable COOKIE responses so
+ that all servers have the same behavior is provided out
+ of an abundance of caution. DNS COOKIE is an important
+ security mechanism, and should not be disabled unless
+ absolutely necessary.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>send-cookie</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ If <userinput>yes</userinput>, then a COOKIE EDNS
+ option is sent along with the query. If the
+ resolver has previously talked to the server, the
+ COOKIE returned in the previous transaction is sent.
+ This is used by the server to determine whether
+ the resolver has talked to it before. A resolver
+ sending the correct COOKIE is assumed not to be an
+ off-path attacker sending a spoofed-source query;
+ the query is therefore unlikely to be part of a
+ reflection/amplification attack, so resolvers
+ sending a correct COOKIE option are not subject to
+ response rate limiting (RRL). Resolvers which
+ do not send a correct COOKIE option may be limited
+ to receiving smaller responses via the
+ <command>nocookie-udp-size</command> option.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>nocookie-udp-size</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Sets the maximum size of UDP responses that will be
+ sent to queries without a valid server COOKIE. A value
+ below 128 will be silently raised to 128. The default
+ value is 4096, but the <command>max-udp-size</command>
+ option may further limit the response size.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>sit-secret</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ This experimental option is obsolete.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>cookie-algorithm</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Set the algorithm to be used when generating the
+ server cookie. One of "aes", "sha1" or "sha256".
+ The default is "aes" if supported by the cryptographic
+ library or otherwise "sha256".
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>cookie-secret</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ If set, this is a shared secret used for generating
+ and verifying EDNS COOKIE options
+ within an anycast cluster. If not set, the system
+ will generate a random secret at startup. The
+ shared secret is encoded as a hex string and needs
+ to be 128 bits for AES128, 160 bits for SHA1 and
+ 256 bits for SHA256.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ If there are multiple secrets specified, the first
+ one listed in <filename>named.conf</filename> is
+ used to generate new server cookies. The others
+ will only be used to verify returned cookies.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>rfc2308-type1</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Setting this to <userinput>yes</userinput> will
+ cause the server to send NS records along with the SOA
+ record for negative
+ answers. The default is <userinput>no</userinput>.
+ </para>
+ <note>
+ <simpara>
+ Not yet implemented in <acronym>BIND</acronym>
+ 9.
+ </simpara>
+ </note>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>trust-anchor-telemetry</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Causes <command>named</command> to send specially-formed
+ queries once per day to domains for which trust anchors
+ have been configured via <command>trusted-keys</command>,
+ <command>managed-keys</command>, or
+ <command>dnssec-validation auto</command>.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The query name used for these queries has the
+ form "_ta-xxxx(-xxxx)(...)".&lt;domain&gt;, where
+ each "xxxx" is a group of four hexadecimal digits
+ representing the key ID of a trusted DNSSEC key.
+ The key IDs for each domain are sorted smallest
+ to largest prior to encoding. The query type is NULL.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ By monitoring these queries, zone operators will
+ be able to see which resolvers have been updated to
+ trust a new key; this may help them decide when it
+ is safe to remove an old one.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The default is <userinput>yes</userinput>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>use-id-pool</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <emphasis>This option is obsolete</emphasis>.
+ <acronym>BIND</acronym> 9 always allocates query
+ IDs from a pool.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>use-ixfr</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <emphasis>This option is obsolete</emphasis>.
+ If you need to disable IXFR to a particular server or
+ servers, see
+ the information on the <command>provide-ixfr</command> option
+ in <xref linkend="server_statement_definition_and_usage"/>.
+ See also
+ <xref linkend="incremental_zone_transfers"/>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>provide-ixfr</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ See the description of
+ <command>provide-ixfr</command> in
+ <xref linkend="server_statement_definition_and_usage"/>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>request-ixfr</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ See the description of
+ <command>request-ixfr</command> in
+ <xref linkend="server_statement_definition_and_usage"/>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>request-expire</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ See the description of
+ <command>request-expire</command> in
+ <xref linkend="server_statement_definition_and_usage"/>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>treat-cr-as-space</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ This option was used in <acronym>BIND</acronym>
+ 8 to make
+ the server treat carriage return ("<command>\r</command>") characters the same way
+ as a space or tab character,
+ to facilitate loading of zone files on a UNIX system that
+ were generated
+ on an NT or DOS machine. In <acronym>BIND</acronym> 9, both UNIX "<command>\n</command>"
+ and NT/DOS "<command>\r\n</command>" newlines
+ are always accepted,
+ and the option is ignored.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>additional-from-auth</command></term>
+ <term><command>additional-from-cache</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+
+ <para>
+ These options control the behavior of an authoritative
+ server when
+ answering queries which have additional data, or when
+ following CNAME
+ and DNAME chains.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ When both of these options are set to <userinput>yes</userinput>
+ (the default) and a
+ query is being answered from authoritative data (a zone
+ configured into the server), the additional data section of
+ the
+ reply will be filled in using data from other authoritative
+ zones
+ and from the cache. In some situations this is undesirable,
+ such
+ as when there is concern over the correctness of the cache,
+ or
+ in servers where slave zones may be added and modified by
+ untrusted third parties. Also, avoiding
+ the search for this additional data will speed up server
+ operations
+ at the possible expense of additional queries to resolve
+ what would
+ otherwise be provided in the additional section.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ For example, if a query asks for an MX record for host <literal>foo.example.com</literal>,
+ and the record found is "<literal>MX 10 mail.example.net</literal>", normally the address
+ records (A and AAAA) for <literal>mail.example.net</literal> will be provided as well,
+ if known, even though they are not in the example.com zone.
+ Setting these options to <command>no</command>
+ disables this behavior and makes
+ the server only search for additional data in the zone it
+ answers from.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ These options are intended for use in authoritative-only
+ servers, or in authoritative-only views. Attempts to set
+ them to <command>no</command> without also
+ specifying
+ <command>recursion no</command> will cause the
+ server to
+ ignore the options and log a warning message.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Specifying <command>additional-from-cache no</command> actually
+ disables the use of the cache not only for additional data
+ lookups
+ but also when looking up the answer. This is usually the
+ desired
+ behavior in an authoritative-only server where the
+ correctness of
+ the cached data is an issue.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ When a name server is non-recursively queried for a name
+ that is not
+ below the apex of any served zone, it normally answers with
+ an
+ "upwards referral" to the root servers or the servers of
+ some other
+ known parent of the query name. Since the data in an
+ upwards referral
+ comes from the cache, the server will not be able to provide
+ upwards
+ referrals when <command>additional-from-cache no</command>
+ has been specified. Instead, it will respond to such
+ queries
+ with REFUSED. This should not cause any problems since
+ upwards referrals are not required for the resolution
+ process.
+ </para>
+
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>match-mapped-addresses</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ If <userinput>yes</userinput>, then an
+ IPv4-mapped IPv6 address will match any address match
+ list entries that match the corresponding IPv4 address.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ This option was introduced to work around a kernel quirk
+ in some operating systems that causes IPv4 TCP
+ connections, such as zone transfers, to be accepted on an
+ IPv6 socket using mapped addresses. This caused address
+ match lists designed for IPv4 to fail to match. However,
+ <command>named</command> now solves this problem
+ internally. The use of this option is discouraged.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>filter-aaaa-on-v4</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ This option is only available when
+ <acronym>BIND</acronym> 9 is compiled with the
+ <userinput>--enable-filter-aaaa</userinput> option on the
+ "configure" command line. It is intended to help the
+ transition from IPv4 to IPv6 by not giving IPv6 addresses
+ to DNS clients unless they have connections to the IPv6
+ Internet. This is not recommended unless absolutely
+ necessary. The default is <userinput>no</userinput>.
+ The <command>filter-aaaa-on-v4</command> option
+ may also be specified in <command>view</command> statements
+ to override the global <command>filter-aaaa-on-v4</command>
+ option.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ If <userinput>yes</userinput>,
+ the DNS client is at an IPv4 address, in <command>filter-aaaa</command>,
+ and if the response does not include DNSSEC signatures,
+ then all AAAA records are deleted from the response.
+ This filtering applies to all responses and not only
+ authoritative responses.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ If <userinput>break-dnssec</userinput>,
+ then AAAA records are deleted even when DNSSEC is enabled.
+ As suggested by the name, this makes the response not verify,
+ because the DNSSEC protocol is designed detect deletions.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ This mechanism can erroneously cause other servers to
+ not give AAAA records to their clients.
+ A recursing server with both IPv6 and IPv4 network connections
+ that queries an authoritative server using this mechanism
+ via IPv4 will be denied AAAA records even if its client is
+ using IPv6.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ This mechanism is applied to authoritative as well as
+ non-authoritative records.
+ A client using IPv4 that is not allowed recursion can
+ erroneously be given AAAA records because the server is not
+ allowed to check for A records.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Some AAAA records are given to IPv4 clients in glue records.
+ IPv4 clients that are servers can then erroneously
+ answer requests for AAAA records received via IPv4.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>filter-aaaa-on-v6</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Identical to <command>filter-aaaa-on-v4</command>,
+ except it filters AAAA responses to queries from IPv6
+ clients instead of IPv4 clients. To filter all
+ responses, set both options to <userinput>yes</userinput>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>ixfr-from-differences</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ When <userinput>yes</userinput> and the server loads a new
+ version of a master zone from its zone file or receives a
+ new version of a slave file via zone transfer, it will
+ compare the new version to the previous one and calculate
+ a set of differences. The differences are then logged in
+ the zone's journal file such that the changes can be
+ transmitted to downstream slaves as an incremental zone
+ transfer.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ By allowing incremental zone transfers to be used for
+ non-dynamic zones, this option saves bandwidth at the
+ expense of increased CPU and memory consumption at the
+ master.
+ In particular, if the new version of a zone is completely
+ different from the previous one, the set of differences
+ will be of a size comparable to the combined size of the
+ old and new zone version, and the server will need to
+ temporarily allocate memory to hold this complete
+ difference set.
+ </para>
+ <para><command>ixfr-from-differences</command>
+ also accepts <command>master</command> and
+ <command>slave</command> at the view and options
+ levels which causes
+ <command>ixfr-from-differences</command> to be enabled for
+ all <command>master</command> or
+ <command>slave</command> zones respectively.
+ It is off by default.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Note: if inline signing is enabled for a zone, the
+ user-provided <command>ixfr-from-differences</command>
+ setting is ignored for that zone.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>multi-master</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ This should be set when you have multiple masters for a zone
+ and the
+ addresses refer to different machines. If <userinput>yes</userinput>, <command>named</command> will
+ not log
+ when the serial number on the master is less than what <command>named</command>
+ currently
+ has. The default is <userinput>no</userinput>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>auto-dnssec</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Zones configured for dynamic DNS may use this
+ option to allow varying levels of automatic DNSSEC key
+ management. There are three possible settings:
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <command>auto-dnssec allow;</command> permits
+ keys to be updated and the zone fully re-signed
+ whenever the user issues the command <command>rndc sign
+ <replaceable>zonename</replaceable></command>.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <command>auto-dnssec maintain;</command> includes the
+ above, but also automatically adjusts the zone's DNSSEC
+ keys on schedule, according to the keys' timing metadata
+ (see <xref linkend="man.dnssec-keygen"/> and
+ <xref linkend="man.dnssec-settime"/>). The command
+ <command>rndc sign
+ <replaceable>zonename</replaceable></command> causes
+ <command>named</command> to load keys from the key
+ repository and sign the zone with all keys that are
+ active.
+ <command>rndc loadkeys
+ <replaceable>zonename</replaceable></command> causes
+ <command>named</command> to load keys from the key
+ repository and schedule key maintenance events to occur
+ in the future, but it does not sign the full zone
+ immediately. Note: once keys have been loaded for a
+ zone the first time, the repository will be searched
+ for changes periodically, regardless of whether
+ <command>rndc loadkeys</command> is used. The recheck
+ interval is defined by
+ <command>dnssec-loadkeys-interval</command>.)
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The default setting is <command>auto-dnssec off</command>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>dnssec-enable</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ This indicates whether DNSSEC-related resource
+ records are to be returned by <command>named</command>.
+ If set to <userinput>no</userinput>,
+ <command>named</command> will not return DNSSEC-related
+ resource records unless specifically queried for.
+ The default is <userinput>yes</userinput>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>dnssec-validation</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Enable DNSSEC validation in <command>named</command>.
+ Note <command>dnssec-enable</command> also needs to be
+ set to <userinput>yes</userinput> to be effective.
+ If set to <userinput>no</userinput>, DNSSEC validation
+ is disabled.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ If set to <userinput>auto</userinput>, DNSSEC validation
+ is enabled, and a default trust anchor for the DNS root
+ zone is used. If set to <userinput>yes</userinput>,
+ DNSSEC validation is enabled, but a trust anchor must be
+ manually configured using a <command>trusted-keys</command>
+ or <command>managed-keys</command> statement. The default
+ is <userinput>yes</userinput>.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The default root trust anchor is stored in the file
+ <filename>bind.keys</filename>.
+ <command>named</command> will load that key at
+ startup if <command>dnssec-validation</command> is
+ set to <constant>auto</constant>. A copy of the file is
+ installed along with BIND 9, and is current as of the
+ release date. If the root key expires, a new copy of
+ <filename>bind.keys</filename> can be downloaded
+ from <link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="https://www.isc.org/bind-keys">https://www.isc.org/bind-keys</link>.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ To prevent problems if <filename>bind.keys</filename> is
+ not found, the current trust anchor is also compiled in
+ to <command>named</command>. Relying on this is not
+ recommended, however, as it requires <command>named</command>
+ to be recompiled with a new key when the root key expires.)
+ </para>
+ <note>
+ <para>
+ <command>named</command> <emphasis>only</emphasis>
+ loads the root key from <filename>bind.keys</filename>.
+ The file cannot be used to store keys for other zones.
+ The root key in <filename>bind.keys</filename> is ignored
+ if <command>dnssec-validation auto</command> is not in
+ use.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Whenever the resolver sends out queries to an
+ EDNS-compliant server, it always sets the DO bit
+ indicating it can support DNSSEC responses even if
+ <command>dnssec-validation</command> is off.
+ </para>
+ </note>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>dnssec-accept-expired</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Accept expired signatures when verifying DNSSEC signatures.
+ The default is <userinput>no</userinput>.
+ Setting this option to <userinput>yes</userinput>
+ leaves <command>named</command> vulnerable to
+ replay attacks.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>querylog</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Specify whether query logging should be started when <command>named</command>
+ starts.
+ If <command>querylog</command> is not specified,
+ then the query logging
+ is determined by the presence of the logging category <command>queries</command>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>check-names</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ This option is used to restrict the character set and syntax
+ of
+ certain domain names in master files and/or DNS responses
+ received
+ from the network. The default varies according to usage
+ area. For
+ <command>master</command> zones the default is <command>fail</command>.
+ For <command>slave</command> zones the default
+ is <command>warn</command>.
+ For answers received from the network (<command>response</command>)
+ the default is <command>ignore</command>.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The rules for legal hostnames and mail domains are derived
+ from RFC 952 and RFC 821 as modified by RFC 1123.
+ </para>
+ <para><command>check-names</command>
+ applies to the owner names of A, AAAA and MX records.
+ It also applies to the domain names in the RDATA of NS, SOA,
+ MX, and SRV records.
+ It also applies to the RDATA of PTR records where the owner
+ name indicated that it is a reverse lookup of a hostname
+ (the owner name ends in IN-ADDR.ARPA, IP6.ARPA, or IP6.INT).
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>check-dup-records</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Check master zones for records that are treated as different
+ by DNSSEC but are semantically equal in plain DNS. The
+ default is to <command>warn</command>. Other possible
+ values are <command>fail</command> and
+ <command>ignore</command>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>check-mx</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Check whether the MX record appears to refer to a IP address.
+ The default is to <command>warn</command>. Other possible
+ values are <command>fail</command> and
+ <command>ignore</command>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>check-wildcard</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ This option is used to check for non-terminal wildcards.
+ The use of non-terminal wildcards is almost always as a
+ result of a failure
+ to understand the wildcard matching algorithm (RFC 1034).
+ This option
+ affects master zones. The default (<command>yes</command>) is to check
+ for non-terminal wildcards and issue a warning.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>check-integrity</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Perform post load zone integrity checks on master
+ zones. This checks that MX and SRV records refer
+ to address (A or AAAA) records and that glue
+ address records exist for delegated zones. For
+ MX and SRV records only in-zone hostnames are
+ checked (for out-of-zone hostnames use
+ <command>named-checkzone</command>).
+ For NS records only names below top of zone are
+ checked (for out-of-zone names and glue consistency
+ checks use <command>named-checkzone</command>).
+ The default is <command>yes</command>.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The use of the SPF record for publishing Sender
+ Policy Framework is deprecated as the migration
+ from using TXT records to SPF records was abandoned.
+ Enabling this option also checks that a TXT Sender
+ Policy Framework record exists (starts with "v=spf1")
+ if there is an SPF record. Warnings are emitted if the
+ TXT record does not exist and can be suppressed with
+ <command>check-spf</command>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>check-mx-cname</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ If <command>check-integrity</command> is set then
+ fail, warn or ignore MX records that refer
+ to CNAMES. The default is to <command>warn</command>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>check-srv-cname</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ If <command>check-integrity</command> is set then
+ fail, warn or ignore SRV records that refer
+ to CNAMES. The default is to <command>warn</command>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>check-sibling</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ When performing integrity checks, also check that
+ sibling glue exists. The default is <command>yes</command>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>check-spf</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ If <command>check-integrity</command> is set then
+ check that there is a TXT Sender Policy Framework
+ record present (starts with "v=spf1") if there is an
+ SPF record present. The default is
+ <command>warn</command>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>zero-no-soa-ttl</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ When returning authoritative negative responses to
+ SOA queries set the TTL of the SOA record returned in
+ the authority section to zero.
+ The default is <command>yes</command>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>zero-no-soa-ttl-cache</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ When caching a negative response to a SOA query
+ set the TTL to zero.
+ The default is <command>no</command>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>update-check-ksk</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ When set to the default value of <literal>yes</literal>,
+ check the KSK bit in each key to determine how the key
+ should be used when generating RRSIGs for a secure zone.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Ordinarily, zone-signing keys (that is, keys without the
+ KSK bit set) are used to sign the entire zone, while
+ key-signing keys (keys with the KSK bit set) are only
+ used to sign the DNSKEY RRset at the zone apex.
+ However, if this option is set to <literal>no</literal>,
+ then the KSK bit is ignored; KSKs are treated as if they
+ were ZSKs and are used to sign the entire zone. This is
+ similar to the <command>dnssec-signzone -z</command>
+ command line option.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ When this option is set to <literal>yes</literal>, there
+ must be at least two active keys for every algorithm
+ represented in the DNSKEY RRset: at least one KSK and one
+ ZSK per algorithm. If there is any algorithm for which
+ this requirement is not met, this option will be ignored
+ for that algorithm.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>dnssec-dnskey-kskonly</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ When this option and <command>update-check-ksk</command>
+ are both set to <literal>yes</literal>, only key-signing
+ keys (that is, keys with the KSK bit set) will be used
+ to sign the DNSKEY RRset at the zone apex. Zone-signing
+ keys (keys without the KSK bit set) will be used to sign
+ the remainder of the zone, but not the DNSKEY RRset.
+ This is similar to the
+ <command>dnssec-signzone -x</command> command line option.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The default is <command>no</command>. If
+ <command>update-check-ksk</command> is set to
+ <literal>no</literal>, this option is ignored.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>try-tcp-refresh</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Try to refresh the zone using TCP if UDP queries fail.
+ For BIND 8 compatibility, the default is
+ <command>yes</command>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>dnssec-secure-to-insecure</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Allow a dynamic zone to transition from secure to
+ insecure (i.e., signed to unsigned) by deleting all
+ of the DNSKEY records. The default is <command>no</command>.
+ If set to <command>yes</command>, and if the DNSKEY RRset
+ at the zone apex is deleted, all RRSIG and NSEC records
+ will be removed from the zone as well.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ If the zone uses NSEC3, then it is also necessary to
+ delete the NSEC3PARAM RRset from the zone apex; this will
+ cause the removal of all corresponding NSEC3 records.
+ (It is expected that this requirement will be eliminated
+ in a future release.)
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Note that if a zone has been configured with
+ <command>auto-dnssec maintain</command> and the
+ private keys remain accessible in the key repository,
+ then the zone will be automatically signed again the
+ next time <command>named</command> is started.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ </variablelist>
+
+ </section>
+
+ <section xml:id="forwarding"><info><title>Forwarding</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ The forwarding facility can be used to create a large site-wide
+ cache on a few servers, reducing traffic over links to external
+ name servers. It can also be used to allow queries by servers that
+ do not have direct access to the Internet, but wish to look up
+ exterior
+ names anyway. Forwarding occurs only on those queries for which
+ the server is not authoritative and does not have the answer in
+ its cache.
+ </para>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>forward</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ This option is only meaningful if the
+ forwarders list is not empty. A value of <varname>first</varname>,
+ the default, causes the server to query the forwarders
+ first — and
+ if that doesn't answer the question, the server will then
+ look for
+ the answer itself. If <varname>only</varname> is
+ specified, the
+ server will only query the forwarders.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>forwarders</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Specifies the IP addresses to be used
+ for forwarding. The default is the empty list (no
+ forwarding).
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ </variablelist>
+
+ <para>
+ Forwarding can also be configured on a per-domain basis, allowing
+ for the global forwarding options to be overridden in a variety
+ of ways. You can set particular domains to use different
+ forwarders,
+ or have a different <command>forward only/first</command> behavior,
+ or not forward at all, see <xref linkend="zone_statement_grammar"/>.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section xml:id="dual_stack"><info><title>Dual-stack Servers</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ Dual-stack servers are used as servers of last resort to work
+ around
+ problems in reachability due the lack of support for either IPv4
+ or IPv6
+ on the host machine.
+ </para>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>dual-stack-servers</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Specifies host names or addresses of machines with access to
+ both IPv4 and IPv6 transports. If a hostname is used, the
+ server must be able
+ to resolve the name using only the transport it has. If the
+ machine is dual
+ stacked, then the <command>dual-stack-servers</command> have no effect unless
+ access to a transport has been disabled on the command line
+ (e.g. <command>named -4</command>).
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+ </section>
+
+ <section xml:id="access_control"><info><title>Access Control</title></info>
+
+
+ <para>
+ Access to the server can be restricted based on the IP address
+ of the requesting system. See <xref linkend="address_match_lists"/> for
+ details on how to specify IP address lists.
+ </para>
+
+ <variablelist>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>allow-notify</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Specifies which hosts are allowed to
+ notify this server, a slave, of zone changes in addition
+ to the zone masters.
+ <command>allow-notify</command> may also be
+ specified in the
+ <command>zone</command> statement, in which case
+ it overrides the
+ <command>options allow-notify</command>
+ statement. It is only meaningful
+ for a slave zone. If not specified, the default is to
+ process notify messages
+ only from a zone's master.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>allow-query</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Specifies which hosts are allowed to ask ordinary
+ DNS questions. <command>allow-query</command> may
+ also be specified in the <command>zone</command>
+ statement, in which case it overrides the
+ <command>options allow-query</command> statement.
+ If not specified, the default is to allow queries
+ from all hosts.
+ </para>
+ <note>
+ <para>
+ <command>allow-query-cache</command> is now
+ used to specify access to the cache.
+ </para>
+ </note>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>allow-query-on</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Specifies which local addresses can accept ordinary
+ DNS questions. This makes it possible, for instance,
+ to allow queries on internal-facing interfaces but
+ disallow them on external-facing ones, without
+ necessarily knowing the internal network's addresses.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Note that <command>allow-query-on</command> is only
+ checked for queries that are permitted by
+ <command>allow-query</command>. A query must be
+ allowed by both ACLs, or it will be refused.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <command>allow-query-on</command> may
+ also be specified in the <command>zone</command>
+ statement, in which case it overrides the
+ <command>options allow-query-on</command> statement.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ If not specified, the default is to allow queries
+ on all addresses.
+ </para>
+ <note>
+ <para>
+ <command>allow-query-cache</command> is
+ used to specify access to the cache.
+ </para>
+ </note>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>allow-query-cache</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Specifies which hosts are allowed to get answers
+ from the cache. If <command>allow-query-cache</command>
+ is not set then <command>allow-recursion</command>
+ is used if set, otherwise <command>allow-query</command>
+ is used if set unless <command>recursion no;</command> is
+ set in which case <command>none;</command> is used,
+ otherwise the default (<command>localnets;</command>
+ <command>localhost;</command>) is used.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>allow-query-cache-on</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Specifies which local addresses can give answers
+ from the cache. If not specified, the default is
+ to allow cache queries on any address,
+ <command>localnets</command> and
+ <command>localhost</command>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>allow-recursion</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Specifies which hosts are allowed to make recursive
+ queries through this server. If
+ <command>allow-recursion</command> is not set
+ then <command>allow-query-cache</command> is
+ used if set, otherwise <command>allow-query</command>
+ is used if set, otherwise the default
+ (<command>localnets;</command>
+ <command>localhost;</command>) is used.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>allow-recursion-on</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Specifies which local addresses can accept recursive
+ queries. If not specified, the default is to allow
+ recursive queries on all addresses.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>allow-update</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Specifies which hosts are allowed to
+ submit Dynamic DNS updates for master zones. The default is
+ to deny
+ updates from all hosts. Note that allowing updates based
+ on the requestor's IP address is insecure; see
+ <xref linkend="dynamic_update_security"/> for details.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>allow-update-forwarding</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Specifies which hosts are allowed to
+ submit Dynamic DNS updates to slave zones to be forwarded to
+ the
+ master. The default is <userinput>{ none; }</userinput>,
+ which
+ means that no update forwarding will be performed. To
+ enable
+ update forwarding, specify
+ <userinput>allow-update-forwarding { any; };</userinput>.
+ Specifying values other than <userinput>{ none; }</userinput> or
+ <userinput>{ any; }</userinput> is usually
+ counterproductive, since
+ the responsibility for update access control should rest
+ with the
+ master server, not the slaves.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Note that enabling the update forwarding feature on a slave
+ server
+ may expose master servers relying on insecure IP address
+ based
+ access control to attacks; see <xref linkend="dynamic_update_security"/>
+ for more details.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>allow-v6-synthesis</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ This option was introduced for the smooth transition from
+ AAAA
+ to A6 and from "nibble labels" to binary labels.
+ However, since both A6 and binary labels were then
+ deprecated,
+ this option was also deprecated.
+ It is now ignored with some warning messages.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>allow-transfer</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Specifies which hosts are allowed to
+ receive zone transfers from the server. <command>allow-transfer</command> may
+ also be specified in the <command>zone</command>
+ statement, in which
+ case it overrides the <command>options allow-transfer</command> statement.
+ If not specified, the default is to allow transfers to all
+ hosts.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>blackhole</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Specifies a list of addresses that the
+ server will not accept queries from or use to resolve a
+ query. Queries
+ from these addresses will not be responded to. The default
+ is <userinput>none</userinput>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>filter-aaaa</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Specifies a list of addresses to which
+ <command>filter-aaaa-on-v4</command>
+ and <command>filter-aaaa-on-v6</command>
+ apply. The default is <userinput>any</userinput>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>keep-response-order</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Specifies a list of addresses to which the server
+ will send responses to TCP queries in the same order
+ in which they were received. This disables the
+ processing of TCP queries in parallel. The default
+ is <userinput>none</userinput>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>no-case-compress</command></term> <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Specifies a list of addresses which require responses
+ to use case-insensitive compression. This ACL can be
+ used when <command>named</command> needs to work with
+ clients that do not comply with the requirement in RFC
+ 1034 to use case-insensitive name comparisons when
+ checking for matching domain names.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ If left undefined, the ACL defaults to
+ <command>none</command>: case-insensitive compression
+ will be used for all clients. If the ACL is defined and
+ matches a client, then case will be ignored when
+ compressing domain names in DNS responses sent to that
+ client.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ This can result in slightly smaller responses: if
+ a response contains the names "example.com" and
+ "example.COM", case-insensitive compression would treat
+ the second one as a duplicate. It also ensures
+ that the case of the query name exactly matches the
+ case of the owner names of returned records, rather
+ than matching the case of the records entered in
+ the zone file. This allows responses to exactly
+ match the query, which is required by some clients
+ due to incorrect use of case-sensitive comparisons.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Case-insensitive compression is <emphasis>always</emphasis>
+ used in AXFR and IXFR responses, regardless of whether
+ the client matches this ACL.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ There are circumstances in which <command>named</command>
+ will not preserve the case of owner names of records:
+ if a zone file defines records of different types with
+ the same name, but the capitalization of the name is
+ different (e.g., "www.example.com/A" and
+ "WWW.EXAMPLE.COM/AAAA"), then all responses for that
+ name will use the <emphasis>first</emphasis> version
+ of the name that was used in the zone file. This
+ limitation may be addressed in a future release. However,
+ domain names specified in the rdata of resource records
+ (i.e., records of type NS, MX, CNAME, etc) will always
+ have their case preserved unless the client matches this
+ ACL.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>resolver-query-timeout</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The amount of time in seconds that the resolver
+ will spend attempting to resolve a recursive
+ query before failing. The default and minimum
+ is <literal>10</literal> and the maximum is
+ <literal>30</literal>. Setting it to
+ <literal>0</literal> will result in the default
+ being used.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+
+ </section>
+
+ <section xml:id="interfaces"><info><title>Interfaces</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ The interfaces and ports that the server will answer queries
+ from may be specified using the <command>listen-on</command> option. <command>listen-on</command> takes
+ an optional port and an <varname>address_match_list</varname>
+ of IPv4 addresses. (IPv6 addresses are ignored, with a
+ logged warning.)
+ The server will listen on all interfaces allowed by the address
+ match list. If a port is not specified, port 53 will be used.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Multiple <command>listen-on</command> statements are
+ allowed.
+ For example,
+ </para>
+
+<programlisting>listen-on { 5.6.7.8; };
+listen-on port 1234 { !1.2.3.4; 1.2/16; };
+</programlisting>
+
+ <para>
+ will enable the name server on port 53 for the IP address
+ 5.6.7.8, and on port 1234 of an address on the machine in net
+ 1.2 that is not 1.2.3.4.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ If no <command>listen-on</command> is specified, the
+ server will listen on port 53 on all IPv4 interfaces.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The <command>listen-on-v6</command> option is used to
+ specify the interfaces and the ports on which the server will
+ listen for incoming queries sent using IPv6. If not specified,
+ the server will listen on port 53 on all IPv6 interfaces.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ When <programlisting>{ any; }</programlisting> is
+ specified
+ as the <varname>address_match_list</varname> for the
+ <command>listen-on-v6</command> option,
+ the server does not bind a separate socket to each IPv6 interface
+ address as it does for IPv4 if the operating system has enough API
+ support for IPv6 (specifically if it conforms to RFC 3493 and RFC
+ 3542).
+ Instead, it listens on the IPv6 wildcard address.
+ If the system only has incomplete API support for IPv6, however,
+ the behavior is the same as that for IPv4.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ A list of particular IPv6 addresses can also be specified, in
+ which case
+ the server listens on a separate socket for each specified
+ address,
+ regardless of whether the desired API is supported by the system.
+ IPv4 addresses specified in <command>listen-on-v6</command>
+ will be ignored, with a logged warning.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Multiple <command>listen-on-v6</command> options can
+ be used.
+ For example,
+ </para>
+
+<programlisting>listen-on-v6 { any; };
+listen-on-v6 port 1234 { !2001:db8::/32; any; };
+</programlisting>
+
+ <para>
+ will enable the name server on port 53 for any IPv6 addresses
+ (with a single wildcard socket),
+ and on port 1234 of IPv6 addresses that is not in the prefix
+ 2001:db8::/32 (with separate sockets for each matched address.)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ To make the server not listen on any IPv6 address, use
+ </para>
+
+<programlisting>listen-on-v6 { none; };
+</programlisting>
+
+ </section>
+
+ <section xml:id="query_address"><info><title>Query Address</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ If the server doesn't know the answer to a question, it will
+ query other name servers. <command>query-source</command> specifies
+ the address and port used for such queries. For queries sent over
+ IPv6, there is a separate <command>query-source-v6</command> option.
+ If <command>address</command> is <command>*</command> (asterisk) or is omitted,
+ a wildcard IP address (<command>INADDR_ANY</command>)
+ will be used.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ If <command>port</command> is <command>*</command> or is omitted,
+ a random port number from a pre-configured
+ range is picked up and will be used for each query.
+ The port range(s) is that specified in
+ the <command>use-v4-udp-ports</command> (for IPv4)
+ and <command>use-v6-udp-ports</command> (for IPv6)
+ options, excluding the ranges specified in
+ the <command>avoid-v4-udp-ports</command>
+ and <command>avoid-v6-udp-ports</command> options, respectively.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The defaults of the <command>query-source</command> and
+ <command>query-source-v6</command> options
+ are:
+ </para>
+
+<programlisting>query-source address * port *;
+query-source-v6 address * port *;
+</programlisting>
+
+ <para>
+ If <command>use-v4-udp-ports</command> or
+ <command>use-v6-udp-ports</command> is unspecified,
+ <command>named</command> will check if the operating
+ system provides a programming interface to retrieve the
+ system's default range for ephemeral ports.
+ If such an interface is available,
+ <command>named</command> will use the corresponding system
+ default range; otherwise, it will use its own defaults:
+ </para>
+
+<programlisting>use-v4-udp-ports { range 1024 65535; };
+use-v6-udp-ports { range 1024 65535; };
+</programlisting>
+
+ <para>
+ Note: make sure the ranges be sufficiently large for
+ security. A desirable size depends on various parameters,
+ but we generally recommend it contain at least 16384 ports
+ (14 bits of entropy).
+ Note also that the system's default range when used may be
+ too small for this purpose, and that the range may even be
+ changed while <command>named</command> is running; the new
+ range will automatically be applied when <command>named</command>
+ is reloaded.
+ It is encouraged to
+ configure <command>use-v4-udp-ports</command> and
+ <command>use-v6-udp-ports</command> explicitly so that the
+ ranges are sufficiently large and are reasonably
+ independent from the ranges used by other applications.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Note: the operational configuration
+ where <command>named</command> runs may prohibit the use
+ of some ports. For example, UNIX systems will not allow
+ <command>named</command> running without a root privilege
+ to use ports less than 1024.
+ If such ports are included in the specified (or detected)
+ set of query ports, the corresponding query attempts will
+ fail, resulting in resolution failures or delay.
+ It is therefore important to configure the set of ports
+ that can be safely used in the expected operational environment.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The defaults of the <command>avoid-v4-udp-ports</command> and
+ <command>avoid-v6-udp-ports</command> options
+ are:
+ </para>
+
+<programlisting>avoid-v4-udp-ports {};
+avoid-v6-udp-ports {};
+</programlisting>
+
+ <para>
+ Note: BIND 9.5.0 introduced
+ the <command>use-queryport-pool</command>
+ option to support a pool of such random ports, but this
+ option is now obsolete because reusing the same ports in
+ the pool may not be sufficiently secure.
+ For the same reason, it is generally strongly discouraged to
+ specify a particular port for the
+ <command>query-source</command> or
+ <command>query-source-v6</command> options;
+ it implicitly disables the use of randomized port numbers.
+ </para>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>use-queryport-pool</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ This option is obsolete.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>queryport-pool-ports</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ This option is obsolete.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>queryport-pool-updateinterval</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ This option is obsolete.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ </variablelist>
+ <note>
+ <para>
+ The address specified in the <command>query-source</command> option
+ is used for both UDP and TCP queries, but the port applies only
+ to UDP queries. TCP queries always use a random
+ unprivileged port.
+ </para>
+ </note>
+ <note>
+ <para>
+ Solaris 2.5.1 and earlier does not support setting the source
+ address for TCP sockets.
+ </para>
+ </note>
+ <note>
+ <para>
+ See also <command>transfer-source</command> and
+ <command>notify-source</command>.
+ </para>
+ </note>
+ </section>
+
+ <section xml:id="zone_transfers"><info><title>Zone Transfers</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ <acronym>BIND</acronym> has mechanisms in place to
+ facilitate zone transfers
+ and set limits on the amount of load that transfers place on the
+ system. The following options apply to zone transfers.
+ </para>
+
+ <variablelist>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>also-notify</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Defines a global list of IP addresses of name servers
+ that are also sent NOTIFY messages whenever a fresh copy of
+ the
+ zone is loaded, in addition to the servers listed in the
+ zone's NS records.
+ This helps to ensure that copies of the zones will
+ quickly converge on stealth servers.
+ Optionally, a port may be specified with each
+ <command>also-notify</command> address to send
+ the notify messages to a port other than the
+ default of 53.
+ An optional TSIG key can also be specified with each
+ address to cause the notify messages to be signed; this
+ can be useful when sending notifies to multiple views.
+ In place of explicit addresses, one or more named
+ <command>masters</command> lists can be used.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ If an <command>also-notify</command> list
+ is given in a <command>zone</command> statement,
+ it will override
+ the <command>options also-notify</command>
+ statement. When a <command>zone notify</command>
+ statement
+ is set to <command>no</command>, the IP
+ addresses in the global <command>also-notify</command> list will
+ not be sent NOTIFY messages for that zone. The default is
+ the empty
+ list (no global notification list).
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>max-transfer-time-in</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Inbound zone transfers running longer than
+ this many minutes will be terminated. The default is 120
+ minutes
+ (2 hours). The maximum value is 28 days (40320 minutes).
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>max-transfer-idle-in</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Inbound zone transfers making no progress
+ in this many minutes will be terminated. The default is 60
+ minutes
+ (1 hour). The maximum value is 28 days (40320 minutes).
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>max-transfer-time-out</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Outbound zone transfers running longer than
+ this many minutes will be terminated. The default is 120
+ minutes
+ (2 hours). The maximum value is 28 days (40320 minutes).
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>max-transfer-idle-out</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Outbound zone transfers making no progress
+ in this many minutes will be terminated. The default is 60
+ minutes (1
+ hour). The maximum value is 28 days (40320 minutes).
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>notify-rate</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The rate at which NOTIFY requests will be sent
+ during normal zone maintenance operations. (NOTIFY
+ requests due to initial zone loading are subject
+ to a separate rate limit; see below.) The default is
+ 20 per second.
+ The lowest possible rate is one per second; when set
+ to zero, it will be silently raised to one.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>startup-notify-rate</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The rate at which NOTIFY requests will be sent
+ when the name server is first starting up, or when
+ zones have been newly added to the nameserver.
+ The default is 20 per second.
+ The lowest possible rate is one per second; when set
+ to zero, it will be silently raised to one.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>serial-query-rate</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Slave servers will periodically query master
+ servers to find out if zone serial numbers have
+ changed. Each such query uses a minute amount of
+ the slave server's network bandwidth. To limit
+ the amount of bandwidth used, BIND 9 limits the
+ rate at which queries are sent. The value of the
+ <command>serial-query-rate</command> option, an
+ integer, is the maximum number of queries sent
+ per second. The default is 20 per second.
+ The lowest possible rate is one per second; when set
+ to zero, it will be silently raised to one.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>serial-queries</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ In BIND 8, the <command>serial-queries</command>
+ option
+ set the maximum number of concurrent serial number queries
+ allowed to be outstanding at any given time.
+ BIND 9 does not limit the number of outstanding
+ serial queries and ignores the <command>serial-queries</command> option.
+ Instead, it limits the rate at which the queries are sent
+ as defined using the <command>serial-query-rate</command> option.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>transfer-format</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+
+ <para>
+ Zone transfers can be sent using two different formats,
+ <command>one-answer</command> and
+ <command>many-answers</command>.
+ The <command>transfer-format</command> option is used
+ on the master server to determine which format it sends.
+ <command>one-answer</command> uses one DNS message per
+ resource record transferred.
+ <command>many-answers</command> packs as many resource
+ records as possible into a message.
+ <command>many-answers</command> is more efficient, but is
+ only supported by relatively new slave servers,
+ such as <acronym>BIND</acronym> 9, <acronym>BIND</acronym>
+ 8.x and <acronym>BIND</acronym> 4.9.5 onwards.
+ The <command>many-answers</command> format is also supported by
+ recent Microsoft Windows nameservers.
+ The default is <command>many-answers</command>.
+ <command>transfer-format</command> may be overridden on a
+ per-server basis by using the <command>server</command>
+ statement.
+ </para>
+
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>transfer-message-size</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ This is an upper bound on the uncompressed size of DNS
+ messages used in zone transfers over TCP. If a message
+ grows larger than this size, additional messages will be
+ used to complete the zone transfer. (Note, however,
+ that this is a hint, not a hard limit; if a message
+ contains a single resource record whose RDATA does not
+ fit within the size limit, a larger message will be
+ permitted so the record can be transferred.)
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Valid values are between 512 and 65535 octets, and any
+ values outside that range will be adjusted to the nearest
+ value within it. The default is <literal>20480</literal>,
+ which was selected to improve message compression:
+ most DNS messages of this size will compress to less
+ than 16536 bytes. Larger messages cannot be compressed
+ as effectively, because 16536 is the largest permissible
+ compression offset pointer in a DNS message.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ This option is mainly intended for server testing;
+ there is rarely any benefit in setting a value other
+ than the default.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>transfers-in</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The maximum number of inbound zone transfers
+ that can be running concurrently. The default value is <literal>10</literal>.
+ Increasing <command>transfers-in</command> may
+ speed up the convergence
+ of slave zones, but it also may increase the load on the
+ local system.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>transfers-out</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The maximum number of outbound zone transfers
+ that can be running concurrently. Zone transfer requests in
+ excess
+ of the limit will be refused. The default value is <literal>10</literal>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>transfers-per-ns</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The maximum number of inbound zone transfers
+ that can be concurrently transferring from a given remote
+ name server.
+ The default value is <literal>2</literal>.
+ Increasing <command>transfers-per-ns</command>
+ may
+ speed up the convergence of slave zones, but it also may
+ increase
+ the load on the remote name server. <command>transfers-per-ns</command> may
+ be overridden on a per-server basis by using the <command>transfers</command> phrase
+ of the <command>server</command> statement.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>transfer-source</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><command>transfer-source</command>
+ determines which local address will be bound to IPv4
+ TCP connections used to fetch zones transferred
+ inbound by the server. It also determines the
+ source IPv4 address, and optionally the UDP port,
+ used for the refresh queries and forwarded dynamic
+ updates. If not set, it defaults to a system
+ controlled value which will usually be the address
+ of the interface "closest to" the remote end. This
+ address must appear in the remote end's
+ <command>allow-transfer</command> option for the
+ zone being transferred, if one is specified. This
+ statement sets the
+ <command>transfer-source</command> for all zones,
+ but can be overridden on a per-view or per-zone
+ basis by including a
+ <command>transfer-source</command> statement within
+ the <command>view</command> or
+ <command>zone</command> block in the configuration
+ file.
+ </para>
+ <note>
+ <para>
+ Solaris 2.5.1 and earlier does not support setting the
+ source address for TCP sockets.
+ </para>
+ </note>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>transfer-source-v6</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The same as <command>transfer-source</command>,
+ except zone transfers are performed using IPv6.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>alt-transfer-source</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ An alternate transfer source if the one listed in
+ <command>transfer-source</command> fails and
+ <command>use-alt-transfer-source</command> is
+ set.
+ </para>
+ <note><simpara>
+ If you do not wish the alternate transfer source
+ to be used, you should set
+ <command>use-alt-transfer-source</command>
+ appropriately and you should not depend upon
+ getting an answer back to the first refresh
+ query.
+ </simpara></note>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>alt-transfer-source-v6</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ An alternate transfer source if the one listed in
+ <command>transfer-source-v6</command> fails and
+ <command>use-alt-transfer-source</command> is
+ set.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>use-alt-transfer-source</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Use the alternate transfer sources or not. If views are
+ specified this defaults to <command>no</command>
+ otherwise it defaults to
+ <command>yes</command> (for BIND 8
+ compatibility).
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>notify-source</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><command>notify-source</command>
+ determines which local source address, and
+ optionally UDP port, will be used to send NOTIFY
+ messages. This address must appear in the slave
+ server's <command>masters</command> zone clause or
+ in an <command>allow-notify</command> clause. This
+ statement sets the <command>notify-source</command>
+ for all zones, but can be overridden on a per-zone or
+ per-view basis by including a
+ <command>notify-source</command> statement within
+ the <command>zone</command> or
+ <command>view</command> block in the configuration
+ file.
+ </para>
+ <note>
+ <para>
+ Solaris 2.5.1 and earlier does not support setting the
+ source address for TCP sockets.
+ </para>
+ </note>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>notify-source-v6</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Like <command>notify-source</command>,
+ but applies to notify messages sent to IPv6 addresses.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ </variablelist>
+
+ </section>
+
+ <section xml:id="port_lists"><info><title>UDP Port Lists</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ <command>use-v4-udp-ports</command>,
+ <command>avoid-v4-udp-ports</command>,
+ <command>use-v6-udp-ports</command>, and
+ <command>avoid-v6-udp-ports</command>
+ specify a list of IPv4 and IPv6 UDP ports that will be
+ used or not used as source ports for UDP messages.
+ See <xref linkend="query_address"/> about how the
+ available ports are determined.
+ For example, with the following configuration
+ </para>
+
+<programlisting>
+use-v6-udp-ports { range 32768 65535; };
+avoid-v6-udp-ports { 40000; range 50000 60000; };
+</programlisting>
+
+ <para>
+ UDP ports of IPv6 messages sent
+ from <command>named</command> will be in one
+ of the following ranges: 32768 to 39999, 40001 to 49999,
+ and 60001 to 65535.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ <command>avoid-v4-udp-ports</command> and
+ <command>avoid-v6-udp-ports</command> can be used
+ to prevent <command>named</command> from choosing as its random source port a
+ port that is blocked by your firewall or a port that is
+ used by other applications;
+ if a query went out with a source port blocked by a
+ firewall, the
+ answer would not get by the firewall and the name server would
+ have to query again.
+ Note: the desired range can also be represented only with
+ <command>use-v4-udp-ports</command> and
+ <command>use-v6-udp-ports</command>, and the
+ <command>avoid-</command> options are redundant in that
+ sense; they are provided for backward compatibility and
+ to possibly simplify the port specification.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section xml:id="resource_limits"><info><title>Operating System Resource Limits</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ The server's usage of many system resources can be limited.
+ Scaled values are allowed when specifying resource limits. For
+ example, <command>1G</command> can be used instead of
+ <command>1073741824</command> to specify a limit of
+ one
+ gigabyte. <command>unlimited</command> requests
+ unlimited use, or the
+ maximum available amount. <command>default</command>
+ uses the limit
+ that was in force when the server was started. See the description
+ of <command>size_spec</command> in <xref linkend="configuration_file_elements"/>.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The following options set operating system resource limits for
+ the name server process. Some operating systems don't support
+ some or
+ any of the limits. On such systems, a warning will be issued if
+ the
+ unsupported limit is used.
+ </para>
+
+ <variablelist>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>coresize</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The maximum size of a core dump. The default
+ is <literal>default</literal>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>datasize</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The maximum amount of data memory the server
+ may use. The default is <literal>default</literal>.
+ This is a hard limit on server memory usage.
+ If the server attempts to allocate memory in excess of this
+ limit, the allocation will fail, which may in turn leave
+ the server unable to perform DNS service. Therefore,
+ this option is rarely useful as a way of limiting the
+ amount of memory used by the server, but it can be used
+ to raise an operating system data size limit that is
+ too small by default. If you wish to limit the amount
+ of memory used by the server, use the
+ <command>max-cache-size</command> and
+ <command>recursive-clients</command>
+ options instead.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>files</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The maximum number of files the server
+ may have open concurrently. The default is <literal>unlimited</literal>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>stacksize</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The maximum amount of stack memory the server
+ may use. The default is <literal>default</literal>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ </variablelist>
+
+ </section>
+
+ <section xml:id="server_resource_limits"><info><title>Server Resource Limits</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ The following options set limits on the server's
+ resource consumption that are enforced internally by the
+ server rather than the operating system.
+ </para>
+
+ <variablelist>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>max-ixfr-log-size</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ This option is obsolete; it is accepted
+ and ignored for BIND 8 compatibility. The option
+ <command>max-journal-size</command> performs a
+ similar function in BIND 9.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>max-journal-size</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Sets a maximum size for each journal file
+ (see <xref linkend="journal"/>). When the journal file
+ approaches
+ the specified size, some of the oldest transactions in the
+ journal
+ will be automatically removed. The largest permitted
+ value is 2 gigabytes. The default is
+ <literal>unlimited</literal>, which also
+ means 2 gigabytes.
+ This may also be set on a per-zone basis.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>max-records</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The maximum number of records permitted in a zone.
+ The default is zero which means unlimited.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>host-statistics-max</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ In BIND 8, specifies the maximum number of host statistics
+ entries to be kept.
+ Not implemented in BIND 9.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>recursive-clients</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The maximum number ("hard quota") of simultaneous
+ recursive lookups the server will perform on behalf
+ of clients. The default is
+ <literal>1000</literal>. Because each recursing
+ client uses a fair
+ bit of memory (on the order of 20 kilobytes), the
+ value of the
+ <command>recursive-clients</command> option may
+ have to be decreased on hosts with limited memory.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <option>recursive-clients</option> defines a "hard
+ quota" limit for pending recursive clients: when more
+ clients than this are pending, new incoming requests
+ will not be accepted, and for each incoming request
+ a previous pending request will also be dropped.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ A "soft quota" is also set. When this lower
+ quota is exceeded, incoming requests are accepted, but
+ for each one, a pending request will be dropped.
+ If <option>recursive-clients</option> is greater than
+ 1000, the soft quota is set to
+ <option>recursive-clients</option> minus 100;
+ otherwise it is set to 90% of
+ <option>recursive-clients</option>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>tcp-clients</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The maximum number of simultaneous client TCP
+ connections that the server will accept.
+ The default is <literal>150</literal>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry xml:id="clients-per-query">
+ <term xml:id="cpq_term"><command>clients-per-query</command></term>
+ <term><command>max-clients-per-query</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>These set the
+ initial value (minimum) and maximum number of recursive
+ simultaneous clients for any given query
+ (&lt;qname,qtype,qclass&gt;) that the server will accept
+ before dropping additional clients. <command>named</command> will attempt to
+ self tune this value and changes will be logged. The
+ default values are 10 and 100.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ This value should reflect how many queries come in for
+ a given name in the time it takes to resolve that name.
+ If the number of queries exceed this value, <command>named</command> will
+ assume that it is dealing with a non-responsive zone
+ and will drop additional queries. If it gets a response
+ after dropping queries, it will raise the estimate. The
+ estimate will then be lowered in 20 minutes if it has
+ remained unchanged.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ If <command>clients-per-query</command> is set to zero,
+ then there is no limit on the number of clients per query
+ and no queries will be dropped.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ If <command>max-clients-per-query</command> is set to zero,
+ then there is no upper bound other than imposed by
+ <command>recursive-clients</command>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry xml:id="fetches-per-zone">
+ <term><command>fetches-per-zone</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The maximum number of simultaneous iterative
+ queries to any one domain that the server will
+ permit before blocking new queries for data
+ in or beneath that zone.
+ This value should reflect how many fetches would
+ normally be sent to any one zone in the time it
+ would take to resolve them. It should be smaller
+ than <option>recursive-clients</option>.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ When many clients simultaneously query for the
+ same name and type, the clients will all be attached
+ to the same fetch, up to the
+ <option>max-clients-per-query</option> limit,
+ and only one iterative query will be sent.
+ However, when clients are simultaneously
+ querying for <emphasis>different</emphasis> names
+ or types, multiple queries will be sent and
+ <option>max-clients-per-query</option> is not
+ effective as a limit.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Optionally, this value may be followed by the keyword
+ <literal>drop</literal> or <literal>fail</literal>,
+ indicating whether queries which exceed the fetch
+ quota for a zone will be dropped with no response,
+ or answered with SERVFAIL. The default is
+ <literal>drop</literal>.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ If <command>fetches-per-zone</command> is set to zero,
+ then there is no limit on the number of fetches per query
+ and no queries will be dropped. The default is zero.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The current list of active fetches can be dumped by
+ running <command>rndc recursing</command>. The list
+ includes the number of active fetches for each
+ domain and the number of queries that have been
+ passed or dropped as a result of the
+ <option>fetches-per-zone</option> limit. (Note:
+ these counters are not cumulative over time; whenever
+ the number of active fetches for a domain drops to
+ zero, the counter for that domain is deleted, and the
+ next time a fetch is sent to that domain, it is
+ recreated with the counters set to zero.)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry xml:id="fetches-per-server">
+ <term><command>fetches-per-server</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The maximum number of simultaneous iterative
+ queries that the server will allow to be sent to
+ a single upstream name server before blocking
+ additional queries.
+ This value should reflect how many fetches would
+ normally be sent to any one server in the time it
+ would take to resolve them. It should be smaller
+ than <option>recursive-clients</option>.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Optionally, this value may be followed by the keyword
+ <literal>drop</literal> or <literal>fail</literal>,
+ indicating whether queries will be dropped with no
+ response, or answered with SERVFAIL, when all of the
+ servers authoritative for a zone are found to have
+ exceeded the per-server quota. The default is
+ <literal>fail</literal>.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ If <command>fetches-per-server</command> is set to zero,
+ then there is no limit on the number of fetches per query
+ and no queries will be dropped. The default is zero.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The <command>fetches-per-server</command> quota is
+ dynamically adjusted in response to detected
+ congestion. As queries are sent to a server
+ and are either answered or time out, an
+ exponentially weighted moving average is calculated
+ of the ratio of timeouts to responses. If the
+ current average timeout ratio rises above a "high"
+ threshold, then <command>fetches-per-server</command>
+ is reduced for that server. If the timeout ratio
+ drops below a "low" threshold, then
+ <command>fetches-per-server</command> is increased.
+ The <command>fetch-quota-params</command> options
+ can be used to adjust the parameters for this
+ calculation.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>fetch-quota-params</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Sets the parameters to use for dynamic resizing of
+ the <option>fetches-per-server</option> quota in
+ response to detected congestion.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The first argument is an integer value indicating
+ how frequently to recalculate the moving average
+ of the ratio of timeouts to responses for each
+ server. The default is 100, meaning we recalculate
+ the average ratio after every 100 queries have either
+ been answered or timed out.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The remaining three arguments represent the "low"
+ threshold (defaulting to a timeout ratio of 0.1),
+ the "high" threshold (defaulting to a timeout
+ ratio of 0.3), and the discount rate for
+ the moving average (defaulting to 0.7).
+ A higher discount rate causes recent events to
+ weigh more heavily when calculating the moving
+ average; a lower discount rate causes past
+ events to weigh more heavily, smoothing out
+ short-term blips in the timeout ratio.
+ These arguments are all fixed-point numbers with
+ precision of 1/100: at most two places after
+ the decimal point are significant.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>reserved-sockets</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The number of file descriptors reserved for TCP, stdio,
+ etc. This needs to be big enough to cover the number of
+ interfaces <command>named</command> listens on, <command>tcp-clients</command> as well as
+ to provide room for outgoing TCP queries and incoming zone
+ transfers. The default is <literal>512</literal>.
+ The minimum value is <literal>128</literal> and the
+ maximum value is <literal>128</literal> less than
+ maxsockets (-S). This option may be removed in the future.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ This option has little effect on Windows.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>max-cache-size</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The maximum amount of memory to use for the
+ server's cache, in bytes or % of total physical memory.
+ When the amount of data in the cache
+ reaches this limit, the server will cause records to
+ expire prematurely based on an LRU based strategy so
+ that the limit is not exceeded.
+ The keyword <userinput>unlimited</userinput>,
+ or the value 0, will place no limit on cache size;
+ records will be purged from the cache only when their
+ TTLs expire.
+ Any positive values less than 2MB will be ignored
+ and reset to 2MB.
+ In a server with multiple views, the limit applies
+ separately to the cache of each view.
+ The default is <userinput>90%</userinput>.
+ On systems where detection of amount of physical
+ memory is not supported values represented as %
+ fall back to unlimited.
+ Note that the detection of physical memory is done only
+ once at startup, so <command>named</command> will not
+ adjust the cache size if the amount of physical memory
+ is changed during runtime.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>tcp-listen-queue</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The listen queue depth. The default and minimum is 10.
+ If the kernel supports the accept filter "dataready" this
+ also controls how
+ many TCP connections that will be queued in kernel space
+ waiting for
+ some data before being passed to accept. Nonzero values
+ less than 10 will be silently raised. A value of 0 may also
+ be used; on most platforms this sets the listen queue
+ length to a system-defined default value.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ </variablelist>
+
+ </section>
+
+ <section xml:id="intervals"><info><title>Periodic Task Intervals</title></info>
+
+ <variablelist>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>cleaning-interval</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ This interval is effectively obsolete. Previously,
+ the server would remove expired resource records
+ from the cache every <command>cleaning-interval</command> minutes.
+ <acronym>BIND</acronym> 9 now manages cache
+ memory in a more sophisticated manner and does not
+ rely on the periodic cleaning any more.
+ Specifying this option therefore has no effect on
+ the server's behavior.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>heartbeat-interval</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The server will perform zone maintenance tasks
+ for all zones marked as <command>dialup</command> whenever this
+ interval expires. The default is 60 minutes. Reasonable
+ values are up
+ to 1 day (1440 minutes). The maximum value is 28 days
+ (40320 minutes).
+ If set to 0, no zone maintenance for these zones will occur.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>interface-interval</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The server will scan the network interface list
+ every <command>interface-interval</command>
+ minutes. The default
+ is 60 minutes. The maximum value is 28 days (40320 minutes).
+ If set to 0, interface scanning will only occur when
+ the configuration file is loaded. After the scan, the
+ server will
+ begin listening for queries on any newly discovered
+ interfaces (provided they are allowed by the
+ <command>listen-on</command> configuration), and
+ will
+ stop listening on interfaces that have gone away.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>statistics-interval</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Name server statistics will be logged
+ every <command>statistics-interval</command>
+ minutes. The default is
+ 60. The maximum value is 28 days (40320 minutes).
+ If set to 0, no statistics will be logged.
+ </para><note>
+ <simpara>
+ Not yet implemented in
+ <acronym>BIND</acronym> 9.
+ </simpara>
+ </note>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>topology</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ In BIND 8, this option indicated network topology
+ so that preferential treatment could be given to
+ the topologicaly closest name servers when sending
+ queries. It is not implemented in BIND 9.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ </variablelist>
+
+ </section>
+
+ <section xml:id="the_sortlist_statement"><info><title>The <command>sortlist</command> Statement</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ The response to a DNS query may consist of multiple resource
+ records (RRs) forming a resource record set (RRset). The name
+ server will normally return the RRs within the RRset in an
+ indeterminate order (but see the <command>rrset-order</command>
+ statement in <xref linkend="rrset_ordering"/>). The client
+ resolver code should rearrange the RRs as appropriate, that is,
+ using any addresses on the local net in preference to other
+ addresses. However, not all resolvers can do this or are
+ correctly configured. When a client is using a local server,
+ the sorting can be performed in the server, based on the
+ client's address. This only requires configuring the name
+ servers, not all the clients.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The <command>sortlist</command> statement (see below) takes an
+ <command>address_match_list</command> and interprets it in a
+ special way. Each top level statement in the
+ <command>sortlist</command> must itself be an explicit
+ <command>address_match_list</command> with one or two elements.
+ The first element (which may be an IP address, an IP prefix, an
+ ACL name or a nested <command>address_match_list</command>) of
+ each top level list is checked against the source address of
+ the query until a match is found.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Once the source address of the query has been matched, if the
+ top level statement contains only one element, the actual
+ primitive element that matched the source address is used to
+ select the address in the response to move to the beginning of
+ the response. If the statement is a list of two elements, then
+ the second element is interpreted as a topology preference
+ list. Each top level element is assigned a distance and the
+ address in the response with the minimum distance is moved to
+ the beginning of the response.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ In the following example, any queries received from any of the
+ addresses of the host itself will get responses preferring
+ addresses on any of the locally connected networks. Next most
+ preferred are addresses on the 192.168.1/24 network, and after
+ that either the 192.168.2/24 or 192.168.3/24 network with no
+ preference shown between these two networks. Queries received
+ from a host on the 192.168.1/24 network will prefer other
+ addresses on that network to the 192.168.2/24 and 192.168.3/24
+ networks. Queries received from a host on the 192.168.4/24 or
+ the 192.168.5/24 network will only prefer other addresses on
+ their directly connected networks.
+ </para>
+
+<programlisting>sortlist {
+ // IF the local host
+ // THEN first fit on the following nets
+ { localhost;
+ { localnets;
+ 192.168.1/24;
+ { 192.168.2/24; 192.168.3/24; }; }; };
+ // IF on class C 192.168.1 THEN use .1, or .2 or .3
+ { 192.168.1/24;
+ { 192.168.1/24;
+ { 192.168.2/24; 192.168.3/24; }; }; };
+ // IF on class C 192.168.2 THEN use .2, or .1 or .3
+ { 192.168.2/24;
+ { 192.168.2/24;
+ { 192.168.1/24; 192.168.3/24; }; }; };
+ // IF on class C 192.168.3 THEN use .3, or .1 or .2
+ { 192.168.3/24;
+ { 192.168.3/24;
+ { 192.168.1/24; 192.168.2/24; }; }; };
+ // IF .4 or .5 THEN prefer that net
+ { { 192.168.4/24; 192.168.5/24; };
+ };
+};</programlisting>
+
+ <para>
+ The following example will give reasonable behavior for the
+ local host and hosts on directly connected networks. It is
+ similar to the behavior of the address sort in
+ <acronym>BIND</acronym> 4.9.x. Responses sent to queries from
+ the local host will favor any of the directly connected
+ networks. Responses sent to queries from any other hosts on a
+ directly connected network will prefer addresses on that same
+ network. Responses to other queries will not be sorted.
+ </para>
+
+<programlisting>sortlist {
+ { localhost; localnets; };
+ { localnets; };
+};
+</programlisting>
+
+ </section>
+ <section xml:id="rrset_ordering"><info><title xml:id="rrset_ordering_title">RRset Ordering</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ When multiple records are returned in an answer it may be
+ useful to configure the order of the records placed into the
+ response.
+ The <command>rrset-order</command> statement permits
+ configuration
+ of the ordering of the records in a multiple record response.
+ See also the <command>sortlist</command> statement,
+ <xref linkend="the_sortlist_statement"/>.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ An <command>order_spec</command> is defined as
+ follows:
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <optional>class <replaceable>class_name</replaceable></optional>
+ <optional>type <replaceable>type_name</replaceable></optional>
+ <optional>name <replaceable>"domain_name"</replaceable></optional>
+ order <replaceable>ordering</replaceable>
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ If no class is specified, the default is <command>ANY</command>.
+ If no type is specified, the default is <command>ANY</command>.
+ If no name is specified, the default is "<command>*</command>" (asterisk).
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The legal values for <command>ordering</command> are:
+ </para>
+ <informaltable colsep="0" rowsep="0">
+ <tgroup cols="2" colsep="0" rowsep="0" tgroupstyle="4Level-table">
+ <colspec colname="1" colnum="1" colsep="0" colwidth="0.750in"/>
+ <colspec colname="2" colnum="2" colsep="0" colwidth="3.750in"/>
+ <tbody>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>fixed</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Records are returned in the order they
+ are defined in the zone file.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>random</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Records are returned in some random order.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>cyclic</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Records are returned in a cyclic round-robin order.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ If <acronym>BIND</acronym> is configured with the
+ "--enable-fixed-rrset" option at compile time, then
+ the initial ordering of the RRset will match the
+ one specified in the zone file.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ </tbody>
+ </tgroup>
+ </informaltable>
+ <para>
+ For example:
+ </para>
+
+<programlisting>rrset-order {
+ class IN type A name "host.example.com" order random;
+ order cyclic;
+};
+</programlisting>
+
+ <para>
+ will cause any responses for type A records in class IN that
+ have "<literal>host.example.com</literal>" as a
+ suffix, to always be returned
+ in random order. All other records are returned in cyclic order.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ If multiple <command>rrset-order</command> statements
+ appear, they are not combined — the last one applies.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ By default, all records are returned in random order.
+ </para>
+
+ <note>
+ <simpara>
+ In this release of <acronym>BIND</acronym> 9, the
+ <command>rrset-order</command> statement does not support
+ "fixed" ordering by default. Fixed ordering can be enabled
+ at compile time by specifying "--enable-fixed-rrset" on
+ the "configure" command line.
+ </simpara>
+ </note>
+ </section>
+
+ <section xml:id="tuning"><info><title>Tuning</title></info>
+
+ <variablelist>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>lame-ttl</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Sets the number of seconds to cache a
+ lame server indication. 0 disables caching. (This is
+ <emphasis role="bold">NOT</emphasis> recommended.)
+ The default is <literal>600</literal> (10 minutes) and the
+ maximum value is
+ <literal>1800</literal> (30 minutes).
+ </para>
+
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>servfail-ttl</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Sets the number of seconds to cache a
+ SERVFAIL response due to DNSSEC validation failure or
+ other general server failure. If set to
+ <literal>0</literal>, SERVFAIL caching is disabled.
+ The SERVFAIL cache is not consulted if a query has
+ the CD (Checking Disabled) bit set; this allows a
+ query that failed due to DNSSEC validation to be retried
+ without waiting for the SERVFAIL TTL to expire.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The maximum value is <literal>30</literal>
+ seconds; any higher value will be silently
+ reduced. The default is <literal>1</literal>
+ second.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>max-ncache-ttl</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ To reduce network traffic and increase performance,
+ the server stores negative answers. <command>max-ncache-ttl</command> is
+ used to set a maximum retention time for these answers in
+ the server
+ in seconds. The default
+ <command>max-ncache-ttl</command> is <literal>10800</literal> seconds (3 hours).
+ <command>max-ncache-ttl</command> cannot exceed
+ 7 days and will
+ be silently truncated to 7 days if set to a greater value.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>max-cache-ttl</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Sets the maximum time for which the server will
+ cache ordinary (positive) answers in seconds.
+ The default is 604800 (one week).
+ A value of zero may cause all queries to return
+ SERVFAIL, because of lost caches of intermediate
+ RRsets (such as NS and glue AAAA/A records) in the
+ resolution process.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>min-roots</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The minimum number of root servers that
+ is required for a request for the root servers to be
+ accepted. The default
+ is <userinput>2</userinput>.
+ </para>
+ <note>
+ <simpara>
+ Not implemented in <acronym>BIND</acronym> 9.
+ </simpara>
+ </note>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>sig-validity-interval</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Specifies the number of days into the future when
+ DNSSEC signatures automatically generated as a
+ result of dynamic updates (<xref linkend="dynamic_update"/>) will expire. There
+ is an optional second field which specifies how
+ long before expiry that the signatures will be
+ regenerated. If not specified, the signatures will
+ be regenerated at 1/4 of base interval. The second
+ field is specified in days if the base interval is
+ greater than 7 days otherwise it is specified in hours.
+ The default base interval is <literal>30</literal> days
+ giving a re-signing interval of 7 1/2 days. The maximum
+ values are 10 years (3660 days).
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The signature inception time is unconditionally
+ set to one hour before the current time to allow
+ for a limited amount of clock skew.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The <command>sig-validity-interval</command>
+ should be, at least, several multiples of the SOA
+ expire interval to allow for reasonable interaction
+ between the various timer and expiry dates.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>sig-signing-nodes</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Specify the maximum number of nodes to be
+ examined in each quantum when signing a zone with
+ a new DNSKEY. The default is
+ <literal>100</literal>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>sig-signing-signatures</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Specify a threshold number of signatures that
+ will terminate processing a quantum when signing
+ a zone with a new DNSKEY. The default is
+ <literal>10</literal>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>sig-signing-type</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Specify a private RDATA type to be used when generating
+ signing state records. The default is
+ <literal>65534</literal>.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ It is expected that this parameter may be removed
+ in a future version once there is a standard type.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Signing state records are used to internally by
+ <command>named</command> to track the current state of
+ a zone-signing process, i.e., whether it is still active
+ or has been completed. The records can be inspected
+ using the command
+ <command>rndc signing -list <replaceable>zone</replaceable></command>.
+ Once <command>named</command> has finished signing
+ a zone with a particular key, the signing state
+ record associated with that key can be removed from
+ the zone by running
+ <command>rndc signing -clear <replaceable>keyid/algorithm</replaceable> <replaceable>zone</replaceable></command>.
+ To clear all of the completed signing state
+ records for a zone, use
+ <command>rndc signing -clear all <replaceable>zone</replaceable></command>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>min-refresh-time</command></term>
+ <term><command>max-refresh-time</command></term>
+ <term><command>min-retry-time</command></term>
+ <term><command>max-retry-time</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ These options control the server's behavior on refreshing a
+ zone (querying for SOA changes) or retrying failed
+ transfers. Usually the SOA values for the zone are used,
+ up to a hard-coded maximum expiry of 24 weeks. However,
+ these values are set by the master, giving slave server
+ administrators little control over their contents.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ These options allow the administrator to set a minimum and
+ maximum refresh and retry time in seconds per-zone,
+ per-view, or globally. These options are valid for
+ slave and stub zones, and clamp the SOA refresh and
+ retry times to the specified values.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The following defaults apply.
+ <command>min-refresh-time</command> 300 seconds,
+ <command>max-refresh-time</command> 2419200 seconds
+ (4 weeks), <command>min-retry-time</command> 500 seconds,
+ and <command>max-retry-time</command> 1209600 seconds
+ (2 weeks).
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>edns-udp-size</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Sets the maximum advertised EDNS UDP buffer size in
+ bytes, to control the size of packets received from
+ authoritative servers in response to recursive queries.
+ Valid values are 512 to 4096 (values outside this range
+ will be silently adjusted to the nearest value within
+ it). The default value is 4096.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The usual reason for setting
+ <command>edns-udp-size</command> to a non-default value
+ is to get UDP answers to pass through broken firewalls
+ that block fragmented packets and/or block UDP DNS
+ packets that are greater than 512 bytes.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ When <command>named</command> first queries a remote
+ server, it will advertise a UDP buffer size of 512, as
+ this has the greatest chance of success on the first try.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ If the initial response times out, <command>named</command>
+ will try again with plain DNS, and if that is successful,
+ it will be taken as evidence that the server does not
+ support EDNS. After enough failures using EDNS and
+ successes using plain DNS, <command>named</command>
+ will default to plain DNS for future communications
+ with that server. (Periodically, <command>named</command>
+ will send an EDNS query to see if the situation has
+ improved.)
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ However, if the initial query is successful with
+ EDNS advertising a buffer size of 512, then
+ <command>named</command> will advertise progressively
+ larger buffer sizes on successive queries, until
+ responses begin timing out or
+ <command>edns-udp-size</command> is reached.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The default buffer sizes used by <command>named</command>
+ are 512, 1232, 1432, and 4096, but never exceeding
+ <command>edns-udp-size</command>. (The values 1232 and
+ 1432 are chosen to allow for an IPv4/IPv6 encapsulated
+ UDP message to be sent without fragmentation at the
+ minimum MTU sizes for Ethernet and IPv6 networks.)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>max-udp-size</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Sets the maximum EDNS UDP message size
+ <command>named</command> will send in bytes.
+ Valid values are 512 to 4096 (values outside this
+ range will be silently adjusted to the nearest
+ value within it). The default value is 4096.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ This value applies to responses sent by a server; to
+ set the advertised buffer size in queries, see
+ <command>edns-udp-size</command>.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The usual reason for setting
+ <command>max-udp-size</command> to a non-default
+ value is to get UDP answers to pass through broken
+ firewalls that block fragmented packets and/or
+ block UDP packets that are greater than 512 bytes.
+ This is independent of the advertised receive
+ buffer (<command>edns-udp-size</command>).
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Setting this to a low value will encourage additional
+ TCP traffic to the nameserver.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>masterfile-format</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Specifies
+ the file format of zone files (see
+ <xref linkend="zonefile_format"/>).
+ The default value is <constant>text</constant>, which is the
+ standard textual representation, except for slave zones,
+ in which the default value is <constant>raw</constant>.
+ Files in other formats than <constant>text</constant> are
+ typically expected to be generated by the
+ <command>named-compilezone</command> tool, or dumped by
+ <command>named</command>.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Note that when a zone file in a different format than
+ <constant>text</constant> is loaded, <command>named</command>
+ may omit some of the checks which would be performed for a
+ file in the <constant>text</constant> format. In particular,
+ <command>check-names</command> checks do not apply
+ for the <constant>raw</constant> format. This means
+ a zone file in the <constant>raw</constant> format
+ must be generated with the same check level as that
+ specified in the <command>named</command> configuration
+ file. Also, <constant>map</constant> format files are
+ loaded directly into memory via memory mapping, with only
+ minimal checking.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ This statement sets the
+ <command>masterfile-format</command> for all zones,
+ but can be overridden on a per-zone or per-view basis
+ by including a <command>masterfile-format</command>
+ statement within the <command>zone</command> or
+ <command>view</command> block in the configuration
+ file.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>masterfile-style</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Specifies the formatting of zone files during dump
+ when the <option>masterfile-format</option> is
+ <constant>text</constant>. (This option is ignored
+ with any other <option>masterfile-format</option>.)
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ When set to <constant>relative</constant>,
+ records are printed in a multi-line format with owner
+ names expressed relative to a shared origin. When set
+ to <constant>full</constant>, records are printed in
+ a single-line format with absolute owner names.
+ The <constant>full</constant> format is most suitable
+ when a zone file needs to be processed automatically
+ by a script. The <constant>relative</constant> format
+ is more human-readable, and is thus suitable when a
+ zone is to be edited by hand. The default is
+ <constant>relative</constant>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry xml:id="max-recursion-depth">
+ <term><command>max-recursion-depth</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Sets the maximum number of levels of recursion
+ that are permitted at any one time while servicing
+ a recursive query. Resolving a name may require
+ looking up a name server address, which in turn
+ requires resolving another name, etc; if the number
+ of indirections exceeds this value, the recursive
+ query is terminated and returns SERVFAIL. The
+ default is 7.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry xml:id="max-recursion-queries">
+ <term><command>max-recursion-queries</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Sets the maximum number of iterative queries that
+ may be sent while servicing a recursive query.
+ If more queries are sent, the recursive query
+ is terminated and returns SERVFAIL. Queries to
+ look up top level domains such as "com" and "net"
+ and the DNS root zone are exempt from this limitation.
+ The default is 75.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>notify-delay</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The delay, in seconds, between sending sets of notify
+ messages for a zone. The default is five (5) seconds.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The overall rate that NOTIFY messages are sent for all
+ zones is controlled by <command>serial-query-rate</command>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>max-rsa-exponent-size</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The maximum RSA exponent size, in bits, that will
+ be accepted when validating. Valid values are 35
+ to 4096 bits. The default zero (0) is also accepted
+ and is equivalent to 4096.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>prefetch</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ When a query is received for cached data which
+ is to expire shortly, <command>named</command> can
+ refresh the data from the authoritative server
+ immediately, ensuring that the cache always has an
+ answer available.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The <option>prefetch</option> specifies the
+ "trigger" TTL value at which prefetch of the current
+ query will take place: when a cache record with a
+ lower TTL value is encountered during query processing,
+ it will be refreshed. Valid trigger TTL values are 1 to
+ 10 seconds. Values larger than 10 seconds will be silently
+ reduced to 10.
+ Setting a trigger TTL to zero (0) causes
+ prefetch to be disabled.
+ The default trigger TTL is <literal>2</literal>.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ An optional second argument specifies the "eligibility"
+ TTL: the smallest <emphasis>original</emphasis>
+ TTL value that will be accepted for a record to be
+ eligible for prefetching. The eligibility TTL must
+ be at least six seconds longer than the trigger TTL;
+ if it isn't, <command>named</command> will silently
+ adjust it upward.
+ The default eligibility TTL is <literal>9</literal>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>v6-bias</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ When determining the next nameserver to try
+ preference IPv6 nameservers by this many milliseconds.
+ The default is <literal>50</literal> milliseconds.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+
+ </section>
+
+ <section xml:id="builtin"><info><title>Built-in server information zones</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ The server provides some helpful diagnostic information
+ through a number of built-in zones under the
+ pseudo-top-level-domain <literal>bind</literal> in the
+ <command>CHAOS</command> class. These zones are part
+ of a
+ built-in view (see <xref linkend="view_statement_grammar"/>) of
+ class
+ <command>CHAOS</command> which is separate from the
+ default view of class <command>IN</command>. Most global
+ configuration options (<command>allow-query</command>,
+ etc) will apply to this view, but some are locally
+ overridden: <command>notify</command>,
+ <command>recursion</command> and
+ <command>allow-new-zones</command> are
+ always set to <userinput>no</userinput>, and
+ <command>rate-limit</command> is set to allow
+ three responses per second.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ If you need to disable these zones, use the options
+ below, or hide the built-in <command>CHAOS</command>
+ view by
+ defining an explicit view of class <command>CHAOS</command>
+ that matches all clients.
+ </para>
+
+ <variablelist>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>version</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The version the server should report
+ via a query of the name <literal>version.bind</literal>
+ with type <command>TXT</command>, class <command>CHAOS</command>.
+ The default is the real version number of this server.
+ Specifying <command>version none</command>
+ disables processing of the queries.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>hostname</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The hostname the server should report via a query of
+ the name <filename>hostname.bind</filename>
+ with type <command>TXT</command>, class <command>CHAOS</command>.
+ This defaults to the hostname of the machine hosting the
+ name server as
+ found by the gethostname() function. The primary purpose of such queries
+ is to
+ identify which of a group of anycast servers is actually
+ answering your queries. Specifying <command>hostname none;</command>
+ disables processing of the queries.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>server-id</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The ID the server should report when receiving a Name
+ Server Identifier (NSID) query, or a query of the name
+ <filename>ID.SERVER</filename> with type
+ <command>TXT</command>, class <command>CHAOS</command>.
+ The primary purpose of such queries is to
+ identify which of a group of anycast servers is actually
+ answering your queries. Specifying <command>server-id none;</command>
+ disables processing of the queries.
+ Specifying <command>server-id hostname;</command> will cause <command>named</command> to
+ use the hostname as found by the gethostname() function.
+ The default <command>server-id</command> is <command>none</command>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ </variablelist>
+
+ </section>
+
+ <section xml:id="empty"><info><title>Built-in Empty Zones</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ The <command>named</command> server has some built-in
+ empty zones (SOA and NS records only).
+ These are for zones that should normally be answered locally
+ and which queries should not be sent to the Internet's root
+ servers. The official servers which cover these namespaces
+ return NXDOMAIN responses to these queries. In particular,
+ these cover the reverse namespaces for addresses from
+ RFC 1918, RFC 4193, RFC 5737 and RFC 6598. They also include the
+ reverse namespace for IPv6 local address (locally assigned),
+ IPv6 link local addresses, the IPv6 loopback address and the
+ IPv6 unknown address.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The server will attempt to determine if a built-in zone
+ already exists or is active (covered by a forward-only
+ forwarding declaration) and will not create an empty
+ zone in that case.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The current list of empty zones is:
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>10.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>16.172.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>17.172.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>18.172.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>19.172.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>20.172.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>21.172.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>22.172.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>23.172.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>24.172.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>25.172.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>26.172.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>27.172.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>28.172.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>29.172.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>30.172.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>31.172.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>168.192.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>64.100.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>65.100.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>66.100.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>67.100.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>68.100.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>69.100.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>70.100.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>71.100.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>72.100.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>73.100.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>74.100.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>75.100.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>76.100.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>77.100.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>78.100.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>79.100.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>80.100.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>81.100.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>82.100.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>83.100.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>84.100.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>85.100.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>86.100.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>87.100.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>88.100.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>89.100.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>90.100.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>91.100.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>92.100.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>93.100.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>94.100.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>95.100.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>96.100.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>97.100.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>98.100.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>99.100.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>100.100.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>101.100.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>102.100.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>103.100.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>104.100.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>105.100.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>106.100.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>107.100.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>108.100.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>109.100.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>110.100.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>111.100.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>112.100.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>113.100.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>114.100.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>115.100.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>116.100.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>117.100.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>118.100.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>119.100.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>120.100.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>121.100.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>122.100.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>123.100.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>124.100.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>125.100.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>126.100.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>127.100.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>0.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>127.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>254.169.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>2.0.192.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>100.51.198.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>113.0.203.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>255.255.255.255.IN-ADDR.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.IP6.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.IP6.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>8.B.D.0.1.0.0.2.IP6.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>D.F.IP6.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>8.E.F.IP6.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>9.E.F.IP6.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>A.E.F.IP6.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>B.E.F.IP6.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>EMPTY.AS112.ARPA</listitem>
+ <listitem>HOME.ARPA</listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Empty zones are settable at the view level and only apply to
+ views of class IN. Disabled empty zones are only inherited
+ from options if there are no disabled empty zones specified
+ at the view level. To override the options list of disabled
+ zones, you can disable the root zone at the view level, for example:
+<programlisting>
+ disable-empty-zone ".";
+</programlisting>
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ If you are using the address ranges covered here, you should
+ already have reverse zones covering the addresses you use.
+ In practice this appears to not be the case with many queries
+ being made to the infrastructure servers for names in these
+ spaces. So many in fact that sacrificial servers were needed
+ to be deployed to channel the query load away from the
+ infrastructure servers.
+ </para>
+ <note><simpara>
+ The real parent servers for these zones should disable all
+ empty zone under the parent zone they serve. For the real
+ root servers, this is all built-in empty zones. This will
+ enable them to return referrals to deeper in the tree.
+ </simpara></note>
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>empty-server</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Specify what server name will appear in the returned
+ SOA record for empty zones. If none is specified, then
+ the zone's name will be used.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>empty-contact</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Specify what contact name will appear in the returned
+ SOA record for empty zones. If none is specified, then
+ "." will be used.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>empty-zones-enable</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Enable or disable all empty zones. By default, they
+ are enabled.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>disable-empty-zone</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Disable individual empty zones. By default, none are
+ disabled. This option can be specified multiple times.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+ </section>
+
+ <section xml:id="acache"><info><title>Additional Section Caching</title></info>
+
+
+ <para>
+ The additional section cache, also called <command>acache</command>,
+ is an internal cache to improve the response performance of BIND 9.
+ When additional section caching is enabled, BIND 9 will
+ cache an internal short-cut to the additional section content for
+ each answer RR.
+ Note that <command>acache</command> is an internal caching
+ mechanism of BIND 9, and is not related to the DNS caching
+ server function.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Additional section caching does not change the
+ response content (except the RRsets ordering of the additional
+ section, see below), but can improve the response performance
+ significantly.
+ It is particularly effective when BIND 9 acts as an authoritative
+ server for a zone that has many delegations with many glue RRs.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ In order to obtain the maximum performance improvement
+ from additional section caching, setting
+ <command>additional-from-cache</command>
+ to <command>no</command> is recommended, since the current
+ implementation of <command>acache</command>
+ does not short-cut of additional section information from the
+ DNS cache data.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ One obvious disadvantage of <command>acache</command> is
+ that it requires much more
+ memory for the internal cached data.
+ Thus, if the response performance does not matter and memory
+ consumption is much more critical, the
+ <command>acache</command> mechanism can be
+ disabled by setting <command>acache-enable</command> to
+ <command>no</command>.
+ It is also possible to specify the upper limit of memory
+ consumption
+ for acache by using <command>max-acache-size</command>.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Additional section caching also has a minor effect on the
+ RRset ordering in the additional section.
+ Without <command>acache</command>,
+ <command>cyclic</command> order is effective for the additional
+ section as well as the answer and authority sections.
+ However, additional section caching fixes the ordering when it
+ first caches an RRset for the additional section, and the same
+ ordering will be kept in succeeding responses, regardless of the
+ setting of <command>rrset-order</command>.
+ The effect of this should be minor, however, since an
+ RRset in the additional section
+ typically only contains a small number of RRs (and in many cases
+ it only contains a single RR), in which case the
+ ordering does not matter much.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The following is a summary of options related to
+ <command>acache</command>.
+ </para>
+
+ <variablelist>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>acache-enable</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ If <command>yes</command>, additional section caching is
+ enabled. The default value is <command>no</command>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>acache-cleaning-interval</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The server will remove stale cache entries, based on an LRU
+ based
+ algorithm, every <command>acache-cleaning-interval</command> minutes.
+ The default is 60 minutes.
+ If set to 0, no periodic cleaning will occur.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>max-acache-size</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The maximum amount of memory in bytes to use for the server's acache.
+ When the amount of data in the acache reaches this limit,
+ the server
+ will clean more aggressively so that the limit is not
+ exceeded.
+ In a server with multiple views, the limit applies
+ separately to the
+ acache of each view.
+ The default is <literal>16M</literal>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ </variablelist>
+
+ </section>
+
+ <section xml:id="content_filtering"><info><title>Content Filtering</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ <acronym>BIND</acronym> 9 provides the ability to filter
+ out DNS responses from external DNS servers containing
+ certain types of data in the answer section.
+ Specifically, it can reject address (A or AAAA) records if
+ the corresponding IPv4 or IPv6 addresses match the given
+ <varname>address_match_list</varname> of the
+ <command>deny-answer-addresses</command> option.
+ It can also reject CNAME or DNAME records if the "alias"
+ name (i.e., the CNAME alias or the substituted query name
+ due to DNAME) matches the
+ given <varname>namelist</varname> of the
+ <command>deny-answer-aliases</command> option, where
+ "match" means the alias name is a subdomain of one of
+ the <varname>name_list</varname> elements.
+ If the optional <varname>namelist</varname> is specified
+ with <command>except-from</command>, records whose query name
+ matches the list will be accepted regardless of the filter
+ setting.
+ Likewise, if the alias name is a subdomain of the
+ corresponding zone, the <command>deny-answer-aliases</command>
+ filter will not apply;
+ for example, even if "example.com" is specified for
+ <command>deny-answer-aliases</command>,
+ </para>
+<programlisting>www.example.com. CNAME xxx.example.com.</programlisting>
+
+ <para>
+ returned by an "example.com" server will be accepted.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ In the <varname>address_match_list</varname> of the
+ <command>deny-answer-addresses</command> option, only
+ <varname>ip_addr</varname>
+ and <varname>ip_prefix</varname>
+ are meaningful;
+ any <varname>key_id</varname> will be silently ignored.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ If a response message is rejected due to the filtering,
+ the entire message is discarded without being cached, and
+ a SERVFAIL error will be returned to the client.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ This filtering is intended to prevent "DNS rebinding attacks," in
+ which an attacker, in response to a query for a domain name the
+ attacker controls, returns an IP address within your own network or
+ an alias name within your own domain.
+ A naive web browser or script could then serve as an
+ unintended proxy, allowing the attacker
+ to get access to an internal node of your local network
+ that couldn't be externally accessed otherwise.
+ See the paper available at
+ <link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1315245.1315298">
+ http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1315245.1315298
+ </link>
+ for more details about the attacks.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ For example, if you own a domain named "example.net" and
+ your internal network uses an IPv4 prefix 192.0.2.0/24,
+ you might specify the following rules:
+ </para>
+
+<programlisting>deny-answer-addresses { 192.0.2.0/24; } except-from { "example.net"; };
+deny-answer-aliases { "example.net"; };
+</programlisting>
+
+ <para>
+ If an external attacker lets a web browser in your local
+ network look up an IPv4 address of "attacker.example.com",
+ the attacker's DNS server would return a response like this:
+ </para>
+
+<programlisting>attacker.example.com. A 192.0.2.1</programlisting>
+
+ <para>
+ in the answer section.
+ Since the rdata of this record (the IPv4 address) matches
+ the specified prefix 192.0.2.0/24, this response will be
+ ignored.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ On the other hand, if the browser looks up a legitimate
+ internal web server "www.example.net" and the
+ following response is returned to
+ the <acronym>BIND</acronym> 9 server
+ </para>
+
+<programlisting>www.example.net. A 192.0.2.2</programlisting>
+
+ <para>
+ it will be accepted since the owner name "www.example.net"
+ matches the <command>except-from</command> element,
+ "example.net".
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Note that this is not really an attack on the DNS per se.
+ In fact, there is nothing wrong for an "external" name to
+ be mapped to your "internal" IP address or domain name
+ from the DNS point of view.
+ It might actually be provided for a legitimate purpose,
+ such as for debugging.
+ As long as the mapping is provided by the correct owner,
+ it is not possible or does not make sense to detect
+ whether the intent of the mapping is legitimate or not
+ within the DNS.
+ The "rebinding" attack must primarily be protected at the
+ application that uses the DNS.
+ For a large site, however, it may be difficult to protect
+ all possible applications at once.
+ This filtering feature is provided only to help such an
+ operational environment;
+ it is generally discouraged to turn it on unless you are
+ very sure you have no other choice and the attack is a
+ real threat for your applications.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Care should be particularly taken if you want to use this
+ option for addresses within 127.0.0.0/8.
+ These addresses are obviously "internal", but many
+ applications conventionally rely on a DNS mapping from
+ some name to such an address.
+ Filtering out DNS records containing this address
+ spuriously can break such applications.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section xml:id="rpz"><info><title>Response Policy Zone (RPZ) Rewriting</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ <acronym>BIND</acronym> 9 includes a limited
+ mechanism to modify DNS responses for requests
+ analogous to email anti-spam DNS blacklists.
+ Responses can be changed to deny the existence of domains (NXDOMAIN),
+ deny the existence of IP addresses for domains (NODATA),
+ or contain other IP addresses or data.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Response policy zones are named in the
+ <command>response-policy</command> option for the view or among the
+ global options if there is no response-policy option for the view.
+ Response policy zones are ordinary DNS zones containing RRsets
+ that can be queried normally if allowed.
+ It is usually best to restrict those queries with something like
+ <command>allow-query { localhost; };</command>.
+ Note that zones using <command>masterfile-format map</command>
+ cannot be used as policy zones.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ A <command>response-policy</command> option can support
+ multiple policy zones. To maximize performance, a radix
+ tree is used to quickly identify response policy zones
+ containing triggers that match the current query. This
+ imposes an upper limit of 32 on the number of policy zones
+ in a single <command>response-policy</command> option; more
+ than that is a configuration error.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Five policy triggers can be encoded in RPZ records.
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>RPZ-CLIENT-IP</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ IP records are triggered by the IP address of the
+ DNS client.
+ Client IP address triggers are encoded in records that have
+ owner names that are subdomains of
+ <command>rpz-client-ip</command> relativized to the
+ policy zone origin name
+ and encode an address or address block.
+ IPv4 addresses are represented as
+ <userinput>prefixlength.B4.B3.B2.B1.rpz-client-ip</userinput>.
+ The IPv4 prefix length must be between 1 and 32.
+ All four bytes, B4, B3, B2, and B1, must be present.
+ B4 is the decimal value of the least significant byte of the
+ IPv4 address as in IN-ADDR.ARPA.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ IPv6 addresses are encoded in a format similar
+ to the standard IPv6 text representation,
+ <userinput>prefixlength.W8.W7.W6.W5.W4.W3.W2.W1.rpz-client-ip</userinput>.
+ Each of W8,...,W1 is a one to four digit hexadecimal number
+ representing 16 bits of the IPv6 address as in the standard
+ text representation of IPv6 addresses, but reversed as in
+ IP6.ARPA. (Note that this representation of IPv6
+ address is different from IP6.ARPA where each hex
+ digit occupies a label.)
+ All 8 words must be present except when one set of consecutive
+ zero words is replaced with <userinput>.zz.</userinput>
+ analogous to double colons (::) in standard IPv6 text
+ encodings.
+ The IPv6 prefix length must be between 1 and 128.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>QNAME</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ QNAME policy records are triggered by query names of
+ requests and targets of CNAME records resolved to generate
+ the response.
+ The owner name of a QNAME policy record is
+ the query name relativized to the policy zone.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>RPZ-IP</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ IP triggers are IP addresses in an
+ A or AAAA record in the ANSWER section of a response.
+ They are encoded like client-IP triggers except as
+ subdomains of <command>rpz-ip</command>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>RPZ-NSDNAME</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ NSDNAME triggers match names of authoritative servers
+ for the query name, a parent of the query name, a CNAME for
+ query name, or a parent of a CNAME.
+ They are encoded as subdomains of
+ <command>rpz-nsdname</command> relativized
+ to the RPZ origin name.
+ NSIP triggers match IP addresses in A and
+ AAAA RRsets for domains that can be checked against NSDNAME
+ policy records.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>RPZ-NSIP</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ NSIP triggers match the IP addresses of authoritative
+ servers. They are enncoded like IP triggers, except as
+ subdomains of <command>rpz-nsip</command>.
+ NSDNAME and NSIP triggers are checked only for names with at
+ least <command>min-ns-dots</command> dots.
+ The default value of <command>min-ns-dots</command> is
+ 1, to exclude top level domains.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ If a name server's IP address is not yet known,
+ <command>named</command> will recursively look up
+ the IP address before applying an RPZ-NSIP rule.
+ This can cause a processing delay. To speed up
+ processing at the cost of precision, the
+ <command>nsip-wait-recurse</command> option
+ can be used: when set to <userinput>no</userinput>,
+ RPZ-NSIP rules will only be applied when a name
+ servers's IP address has already been looked up and
+ cached. If a server's IP address is not in the
+ cache, then the RPZ-NSIP rule will be ignored,
+ but the address will be looked up in the
+ background, and the rule will be applied
+ to subsequent queries. The default is
+ <userinput>yes</userinput>, meaning RPZ-NSIP
+ rules should always be applied even if an
+ address needs to be looked up first.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The query response is checked against all response policy zones,
+ so two or more policy records can be triggered by a response.
+ Because DNS responses are rewritten according to at most one
+ policy record, a single record encoding an action (other than
+ <command>DISABLED</command> actions) must be chosen.
+ Triggers or the records that encode them are chosen for the
+ rewriting in the following order:
+ <orderedlist inheritnum="ignore" continuation="restarts">
+ <listitem>Choose the triggered record in the zone that appears
+ first in the <command>response-policy</command> option.
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>Prefer CLIENT-IP to QNAME to IP to NSDNAME to NSIP
+ triggers in a single zone.
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>Among NSDNAME triggers, prefer the
+ trigger that matches the smallest name under the DNSSEC ordering.
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>Among IP or NSIP triggers, prefer the trigger
+ with the longest prefix.
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>Among triggers with the same prefix length,
+ prefer the IP or NSIP trigger that matches
+ the smallest IP address.
+ </listitem>
+ </orderedlist>
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ When the processing of a response is restarted to resolve
+ DNAME or CNAME records and a policy record set has
+ not been triggered,
+ all response policy zones are again consulted for the
+ DNAME or CNAME names and addresses.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ RPZ record sets are any types of DNS record except
+ DNAME or DNSSEC that encode actions or responses to
+ individual queries.
+ Any of the policies can be used with any of the triggers.
+ For example, while the <command>TCP-only</command> policy is
+ commonly used with <command>client-IP</command> triggers,
+ it can be used with any type of trigger to force the use of
+ TCP for responses with owner names in a zone.
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>PASSTHRU</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The whitelist policy is specified
+ by a CNAME whose target is <command>rpz-passthru</command>.
+ It causes the response to not be rewritten
+ and is most often used to "poke holes" in policies for
+ CIDR blocks.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>DROP</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The blacklist policy is specified
+ by a CNAME whose target is <command>rpz-drop</command>.
+ It causes the response to be discarded.
+ Nothing is sent to the DNS client.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>TCP-Only</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The "slip" policy is specified
+ by a CNAME whose target is <command>rpz-tcp-only</command>.
+ It changes UDP responses to short, truncated DNS responses
+ that require the DNS client to try again with TCP.
+ It is used to mitigate distributed DNS reflection attacks.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>NXDOMAIN</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The domain undefined response is encoded
+ by a CNAME whose target is the root domain (.)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>NODATA</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The empty set of resource records is specified by
+ CNAME whose target is the wildcard top-level
+ domain (*.).
+ It rewrites the response to NODATA or ANCOUNT=1.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>Local Data</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ A set of ordinary DNS records can be used to answer queries.
+ Queries for record types not the set are answered with
+ NODATA.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ A special form of local data is a CNAME whose target is a
+ wildcard such as *.example.com.
+ It is used as if were an ordinary CNAME after the asterisk (*)
+ has been replaced with the query name.
+ The purpose for this special form is query logging in the
+ walled garden's authority DNS server.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ All of the actions specified in all of the individual records
+ in a policy zone
+ can be overridden with a <command>policy</command> clause in the
+ <command>response-policy</command> option.
+ An organization using a policy zone provided by another
+ organization might use this mechanism to redirect domains
+ to its own walled garden.
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>GIVEN</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>The placeholder policy says "do not override but
+ perform the action specified in the zone."
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>DISABLED</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The testing override policy causes policy zone records to do
+ nothing but log what they would have done if the
+ policy zone were not disabled.
+ The response to the DNS query will be written (or not)
+ according to any triggered policy records that are not
+ disabled.
+ Disabled policy zones should appear first,
+ because they will often not be logged
+ if a higher precedence trigger is found first.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>PASSTHRU</command></term>,
+ <term><command>DROP</command></term>,
+ <term><command>TCP-Only</command></term>,
+ <term><command>NXDOMAIN</command></term>,
+ and
+ <term><command>NODATA</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ override with the corresponding per-record policy.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>CNAME domain</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ causes all RPZ policy records to act as if they were
+ "cname domain" records.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ By default, the actions encoded in a response policy zone
+ are applied only to queries that ask for recursion (RD=1).
+ That default can be changed for a single policy zone or
+ all response policy zones in a view
+ with a <command>recursive-only no</command> clause.
+ This feature is useful for serving the same zone files
+ both inside and outside an RFC 1918 cloud and using RPZ to
+ delete answers that would otherwise contain RFC 1918 values
+ on the externally visible name server or view.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Also by default, RPZ actions are applied only to DNS requests
+ that either do not request DNSSEC metadata (DO=0) or when no
+ DNSSEC records are available for request name in the original
+ zone (not the response policy zone). This default can be
+ changed for all response policy zones in a view with a
+ <command>break-dnssec yes</command> clause. In that case, RPZ
+ actions are applied regardless of DNSSEC. The name of the
+ clause option reflects the fact that results rewritten by RPZ
+ actions cannot verify.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ No DNS records are needed for a QNAME or Client-IP trigger.
+ The name or IP address itself is sufficient,
+ so in principle the query name need not be recursively resolved.
+ However, not resolving the requested
+ name can leak the fact that response policy rewriting is in use
+ and that the name is listed in a policy zone to operators of
+ servers for listed names. To prevent that information leak, by
+ default any recursion needed for a request is done before any
+ policy triggers are considered. Because listed domains often
+ have slow authoritative servers, this default behavior can cost
+ significant time.
+ The <command>qname-wait-recurse no</command> option
+ overrides that default behavior when recursion cannot
+ change a non-error response.
+ The option does not affect QNAME or client-IP triggers
+ in policy zones listed
+ after other zones containing IP, NSIP and NSDNAME triggers, because
+ those may depend on the A, AAAA, and NS records that would be
+ found during recursive resolution. It also does not affect
+ DNSSEC requests (DO=1) unless <command>break-dnssec yes</command>
+ is in use, because the response would depend on whether or not
+ RRSIG records were found during resolution.
+ Using this option can cause error responses such as SERVFAIL to
+ appear to be rewritten, since no recursion is being done to
+ discover problems at the authoritative server.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The TTL of a record modified by RPZ policies is set from the
+ TTL of the relevant record in policy zone. It is then limited
+ to a maximum value.
+ The <command>max-policy-ttl</command> clause changes the
+ maximum seconds from its default of 5.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ For example, you might use this option statement
+ </para>
+<programlisting> response-policy { zone "badlist"; };</programlisting>
+ <para>
+ and this zone statement
+ </para>
+<programlisting> zone "badlist" {type master; file "master/badlist"; allow-query {none;}; };</programlisting>
+ <para>
+ with this zone file
+ </para>
+<programlisting>$TTL 1H
+@ SOA LOCALHOST. named-mgr.example.com (1 1h 15m 30d 2h)
+ NS LOCALHOST.
+
+; QNAME policy records. There are no periods (.) after the owner names.
+nxdomain.domain.com CNAME . ; NXDOMAIN policy
+*.nxdomain.domain.com CNAME . ; NXDOMAIN policy
+nodata.domain.com CNAME *. ; NODATA policy
+*.nodata.domain.com CNAME *. ; NODATA policy
+bad.domain.com A 10.0.0.1 ; redirect to a walled garden
+ AAAA 2001:2::1
+bzone.domain.com CNAME garden.example.com.
+
+; do not rewrite (PASSTHRU) OK.DOMAIN.COM
+ok.domain.com CNAME rpz-passthru.
+
+; redirect x.bzone.domain.com to x.bzone.domain.com.garden.example.com
+*.bzone.domain.com CNAME *.garden.example.com.
+
+
+; IP policy records that rewrite all responses containing A records in 127/8
+; except 127.0.0.1
+8.0.0.0.127.rpz-ip CNAME .
+32.1.0.0.127.rpz-ip CNAME rpz-passthru.
+
+; NSDNAME and NSIP policy records
+ns.domain.com.rpz-nsdname CNAME .
+48.zz.2.2001.rpz-nsip CNAME .
+
+; blacklist and whitelist some DNS clients
+112.zz.2001.rpz-client-ip CNAME rpz-drop.
+8.0.0.0.127.rpz-client-ip CNAME rpz-drop.
+
+; force some DNS clients and responses in the example.com zone to TCP
+16.0.0.1.10.rpz-client-ip CNAME rpz-tcp-only.
+example.com CNAME rpz-tcp-only.
+*.example.com CNAME rpz-tcp-only.
+
+</programlisting>
+ <para>
+ RPZ can affect server performance.
+ Each configured response policy zone requires the server to
+ perform one to four additional database lookups before a
+ query can be answered.
+ For example, a DNS server with four policy zones, each with all
+ four kinds of response triggers, QNAME, IP, NSIP, and
+ NSDNAME, requires a total of 17 times as many database
+ lookups as a similar DNS server with no response policy zones.
+ A <acronym>BIND9</acronym> server with adequate memory and one
+ response policy zone with QNAME and IP triggers might achieve a
+ maximum queries-per-second rate about 20% lower.
+ A server with four response policy zones with QNAME and IP
+ triggers might have a maximum QPS rate about 50% lower.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Responses rewritten by RPZ are counted in the
+ <command>RPZRewrites</command> statistics.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The <command>log</command> clause can be used to optionally
+ turn off rewrite logging for a particular response policy
+ zone. By default, all rewrites are logged.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section xml:id="rrl"><info><title>Response Rate Limiting</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ Excessive almost identical UDP <emphasis>responses</emphasis>
+ can be controlled by configuring a
+ <command>rate-limit</command> clause in an
+ <command>options</command> or <command>view</command> statement.
+ This mechanism keeps authoritative BIND 9 from being used
+ in amplifying reflection denial of service (DoS) attacks.
+ Short truncated (TC=1) responses can be sent to provide
+ rate-limited responses to legitimate clients within
+ a range of forged, attacked IP addresses.
+ Legitimate clients react to dropped or truncated response
+ by retrying with UDP or with TCP respectively.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ This mechanism is intended for authoritative DNS servers.
+ It can be used on recursive servers but can slow
+ applications such as SMTP servers (mail receivers) and
+ HTTP clients (web browsers) that repeatedly request the
+ same domains.
+ When possible, closing "open" recursive servers is better.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Response rate limiting uses a "credit" or "token bucket" scheme.
+ Each combination of identical response and client
+ has a conceptual account that earns a specified number
+ of credits every second.
+ A prospective response debits its account by one.
+ Responses are dropped or truncated
+ while the account is negative.
+ Responses are tracked within a rolling window of time
+ which defaults to 15 seconds, but can be configured with
+ the <command>window</command> option to any value from
+ 1 to 3600 seconds (1 hour).
+ The account cannot become more positive than
+ the per-second limit
+ or more negative than <command>window</command>
+ times the per-second limit.
+ When the specified number of credits for a class of
+ responses is set to 0, those responses are not rate limited.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The notions of "identical response" and "DNS client"
+ for rate limiting are not simplistic.
+ All responses to an address block are counted as if to a
+ single client.
+ The prefix lengths of addresses blocks are
+ specified with <command>ipv4-prefix-length</command> (default 24)
+ and <command>ipv6-prefix-length</command> (default 56).
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ All non-empty responses for a valid domain name (qname)
+ and record type (qtype) are identical and have a limit specified
+ with <command>responses-per-second</command>
+ (default 0 or no limit).
+ All empty (NODATA) responses for a valid domain,
+ regardless of query type, are identical.
+ Responses in the NODATA class are limited by
+ <command>nodata-per-second</command>
+ (default <command>responses-per-second</command>).
+ Requests for any and all undefined subdomains of a given
+ valid domain result in NXDOMAIN errors, and are identical
+ regardless of query type.
+ They are limited by <command>nxdomains-per-second</command>
+ (default <command>responses-per-second</command>).
+ This controls some attacks using random names, but
+ can be relaxed or turned off (set to 0)
+ on servers that expect many legitimate
+ NXDOMAIN responses, such as from anti-spam blacklists.
+ Referrals or delegations to the server of a given
+ domain are identical and are limited by
+ <command>referrals-per-second</command>
+ (default <command>responses-per-second</command>).
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Responses generated from local wildcards are counted and limited
+ as if they were for the parent domain name.
+ This controls flooding using random.wild.example.com.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ All requests that result in DNS errors other
+ than NXDOMAIN, such as SERVFAIL and FORMERR, are identical
+ regardless of requested name (qname) or record type (qtype).
+ This controls attacks using invalid requests or distant,
+ broken authoritative servers.
+ By default the limit on errors is the same as the
+ <command>responses-per-second</command> value,
+ but it can be set separately with
+ <command>errors-per-second</command>.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Many attacks using DNS involve UDP requests with forged source
+ addresses.
+ Rate limiting prevents the use of BIND 9 to flood a network
+ with responses to requests with forged source addresses,
+ but could let a third party block responses to legitimate requests.
+ There is a mechanism that can answer some legitimate
+ requests from a client whose address is being forged in a flood.
+ Setting <command>slip</command> to 2 (its default) causes every
+ other UDP request to be answered with a small truncated (TC=1)
+ response.
+ The small size and reduced frequency, and so lack of
+ amplification, of "slipped" responses make them unattractive
+ for reflection DoS attacks.
+ <command>slip</command> must be between 0 and 10.
+ A value of 0 does not "slip":
+ no truncated responses are sent due to rate limiting,
+ all responses are dropped.
+ A value of 1 causes every response to slip;
+ values between 2 and 10 cause every n'th response to slip.
+ Some error responses including REFUSED and SERVFAIL
+ cannot be replaced with truncated responses and are instead
+ leaked at the <command>slip</command> rate.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ (NOTE: Dropped responses from an authoritative server may
+ reduce the difficulty of a third party successfully forging
+ a response to a recursive resolver. The best security
+ against forged responses is for authoritative operators
+ to sign their zones using DNSSEC and for resolver operators
+ to validate the responses. When this is not an option,
+ operators who are more concerned with response integrity
+ than with flood mitigation may consider setting
+ <command>slip</command> to 1, causing all rate-limited
+ responses to be truncated rather than dropped. This reduces
+ the effectiveness of rate-limiting against reflection attacks.)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ When the approximate query per second rate exceeds
+ the <command>qps-scale</command> value,
+ then the <command>responses-per-second</command>,
+ <command>errors-per-second</command>,
+ <command>nxdomains-per-second</command> and
+ <command>all-per-second</command> values are reduced by the
+ ratio of the current rate to the <command>qps-scale</command> value.
+ This feature can tighten defenses during attacks.
+ For example, with
+ <command>qps-scale 250; responses-per-second 20;</command> and
+ a total query rate of 1000 queries/second for all queries from
+ all DNS clients including via TCP,
+ then the effective responses/second limit changes to
+ (250/1000)*20 or 5.
+ Responses sent via TCP are not limited
+ but are counted to compute the query per second rate.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Rate limiters for different name spaces maintain
+ separate counters: If, for example, there is a
+ <command>rate-limit</command> statement for "com" and
+ another for "example.com", queries matching "example.com"
+ will not be debited against the rate limiter for "com".
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ If a <command>rate-limit</command> statement does not specify a
+ <command>domain</command>, then it applies to the root domain
+ (".") and thus affects the entire DNS namespace, except those
+ portions covered by other <command>rate-limit</command>
+ statements.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Communities of DNS clients can be given their own parameters or no
+ rate limiting by putting
+ <command>rate-limit</command> statements in <command>view</command>
+ statements instead of the global <command>option</command>
+ statement.
+ A <command>rate-limit</command> statement in a view replaces,
+ rather than supplementing, a <command>rate-limit</command>
+ statement among the main options.
+ DNS clients within a view can be exempted from rate limits
+ with the <command>exempt-clients</command> clause.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ UDP responses of all kinds can be limited with the
+ <command>all-per-second</command> phrase. This rate
+ limiting is unlike the rate limiting provided by
+ <command>responses-per-second</command>,
+ <command>errors-per-second</command>, and
+ <command>nxdomains-per-second</command> on a DNS server
+ which are often invisible to the victim of a DNS
+ reflection attack. Unless the forged requests of the
+ attack are the same as the legitimate requests of the
+ victim, the victim's requests are not affected. Responses
+ affected by an <command>all-per-second</command> limit
+ are always dropped; the <command>slip</command> value
+ has no effect. An <command>all-per-second</command>
+ limit should be at least 4 times as large as the other
+ limits, because single DNS clients often send bursts
+ of legitimate requests. For example, the receipt of a
+ single mail message can prompt requests from an SMTP
+ server for NS, PTR, A, and AAAA records as the incoming
+ SMTP/TCP/IP connection is considered. The SMTP server
+ can need additional NS, A, AAAA, MX, TXT, and SPF records
+ as it considers the STMP <command>Mail From</command>
+ command. Web browsers often repeatedly resolve the
+ same names that are repeated in HTML &lt;IMG&gt; tags
+ in a page. <command>all-per-second</command> is similar
+ to the rate limiting offered by firewalls but often
+ inferior. Attacks that justify ignoring the contents
+ of DNS responses are likely to be attacks on the DNS
+ server itself. They usually should be discarded before
+ the DNS server spends resources make TCP connections
+ or parsing DNS requests, but that rate limiting must
+ be done before the DNS server sees the requests.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The maximum size of the table used to track requests and
+ rate limit responses is set with <command>max-table-size</command>.
+ Each entry in the table is between 40 and 80 bytes.
+ The table needs approximately as many entries as the number
+ of requests received per second.
+ The default is 20,000.
+ To reduce the cold start of growing the table,
+ <command>min-table-size</command> (default 500)
+ can set the minimum table size.
+ Enable <command>rate-limit</command> category logging to monitor
+ expansions of the table and inform
+ choices for the initial and maximum table size.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Use <command>log-only yes</command> to test rate limiting parameters
+ without actually dropping any requests.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Responses dropped by rate limits are included in the
+ <command>RateDropped</command> and <command>QryDropped</command>
+ statistics.
+ Responses that truncated by rate limits are included in
+ <command>RateSlipped</command> and <command>RespTruncated</command>.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section title="NXDOMAIN Redirection"><info/>
+ <para>
+ Named supports NXDOMAIN redirection via two methods:
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>Redirect zone <xref linkend="zone_statement_grammar"/></listitem>
+ <listitem>Redirect namespace</listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ With both methods when named gets a NXDOMAIN response
+ it examines a separate namespace to see if the NXDOMAIN
+ response should be replaced with an alternative response.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ With a redirect zone (<command>zone "." { type redirect; };</command>), the
+ data used to replace the NXDOMAIN is held in a single
+ zone which is not part of the normal namespace. All the
+ redirect information is contained in the zone; there are
+ no delegations.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ With a redirect namespace (<command>option { nxdomain-redirect
+ &lt;suffix&gt; };</command>) the data used to replace the
+ NXDOMAIN is part of the normal namespace and is looked up by
+ appending the specified suffix to the original query name.
+ This roughly doubles the cache required to process NXDOMAIN
+ responses as you have the original NXDOMAIN response and
+ the replacement data or a NXDOMAIN indicating that there
+ is no replacement.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ If both a redirect zone and a redirect namespace are configured,
+ the redirect zone is tried first.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+ </section>
+
+ <section xml:id="server_statement_grammar"><info><title><command>server</command> Statement Grammar</title></info>
+ <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="server.grammar.xml"/>
+ </section>
+
+ <section xml:id="server_statement_definition_and_usage"><info><title><command>server</command> Statement Definition and
+ Usage</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ The <command>server</command> statement defines
+ characteristics
+ to be associated with a remote name server. If a prefix length is
+ specified, then a range of servers is covered. Only the most
+ specific
+ server clause applies regardless of the order in
+ <filename>named.conf</filename>.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The <command>server</command> statement can occur at
+ the top level of the
+ configuration file or inside a <command>view</command>
+ statement.
+ If a <command>view</command> statement contains
+ one or more <command>server</command> statements, only
+ those
+ apply to the view and any top-level ones are ignored.
+ If a view contains no <command>server</command>
+ statements,
+ any top-level <command>server</command> statements are
+ used as
+ defaults.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ If you discover that a remote server is giving out bad data,
+ marking it as bogus will prevent further queries to it. The
+ default
+ value of <command>bogus</command> is <command>no</command>.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The <command>provide-ixfr</command> clause determines
+ whether
+ the local server, acting as master, will respond with an
+ incremental
+ zone transfer when the given remote server, a slave, requests it.
+ If set to <command>yes</command>, incremental transfer
+ will be provided
+ whenever possible. If set to <command>no</command>,
+ all transfers
+ to the remote server will be non-incremental. If not set, the
+ value
+ of the <command>provide-ixfr</command> option in the
+ view or
+ global options block is used as a default.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The <command>request-ixfr</command> clause determines
+ whether
+ the local server, acting as a slave, will request incremental zone
+ transfers from the given remote server, a master. If not set, the
+ value of the <command>request-ixfr</command> option in
+ the view or global options block is used as a default. It may
+ also be set in the zone block and, if set there, it will
+ override the global or view setting for that zone.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ IXFR requests to servers that do not support IXFR will
+ automatically
+ fall back to AXFR. Therefore, there is no need to manually list
+ which servers support IXFR and which ones do not; the global
+ default
+ of <command>yes</command> should always work.
+ The purpose of the <command>provide-ixfr</command> and
+ <command>request-ixfr</command> clauses is
+ to make it possible to disable the use of IXFR even when both
+ master
+ and slave claim to support it, for example if one of the servers
+ is buggy and crashes or corrupts data when IXFR is used.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The <command>request-expire</command> clause determines
+ whether the local server, when acting as a slave, will
+ request the EDNS EXPIRE value. The EDNS EXPIRE value
+ indicates the remaining time before the zone data will
+ expire and need to be be refreshed. This is used
+ when a secondary server transfers a zone from another
+ secondary server; when transferring from the primary, the
+ expiration timer is set from the EXPIRE field of the SOA
+ record instead.
+ The default is <command>yes</command>.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The <command>edns</command> clause determines whether
+ the local server will attempt to use EDNS when communicating
+ with the remote server. The default is <command>yes</command>.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The <command>edns-udp-size</command> option sets the
+ EDNS UDP size that is advertised by <command>named</command>
+ when querying the remote server. Valid values are 512
+ to 4096 bytes (values outside this range will be silently
+ adjusted to the nearest value within it). This option
+ is useful when you wish to advertise a different value
+ to this server than the value you advertise globally,
+ for example, when there is a firewall at the remote
+ site that is blocking large replies. (Note: Currently,
+ this sets a single UDP size for all packets sent to the
+ server; <command>named</command> will not deviate from
+ this value. This differs from the behavior of
+ <command>edns-udp-size</command> in <command>options</command>
+ or <command>view</command> statements, where it specifies
+ a maximum value. The <command>server</command> statement
+ behavior may be brought into conformance with the
+ <command>options/view</command> behavior in future releases.)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The <command>edns-version</command> option sets the
+ maximum EDNS VERSION that will be sent to the server(s)
+ by the resolver. The actual EDNS version sent is still
+ subject to normal EDNS version negotiation rules (see
+ RFC 6891), the maximum EDNS version supported by the
+ server, and any other heuristics that indicate that a
+ lower version should be sent. This option is intended
+ to be used when a remote server reacts badly to a given
+ EDNS version or higher; it should be set to the highest
+ version the remote server is known to support. Valid
+ values are 0 to 255; higher values will be silently
+ adjusted. This option will not be needed until higher
+ EDNS versions than 0 are in use.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The <command>max-udp-size</command> option sets the
+ maximum EDNS UDP message size <command>named</command>
+ will send. Valid values are 512 to 4096 bytes (values
+ outside this range will be silently adjusted). This
+ option is useful when you know that there is a firewall
+ that is blocking large replies from <command>named</command>.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The <command>tcp-only</command> option sets the transport
+ protocol to TCP. The default is to use the UDP transport
+ and to fallback on TCP only when a truncated response
+ is received.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The server supports two zone transfer methods. The first, <command>one-answer</command>,
+ uses one DNS message per resource record transferred. <command>many-answers</command> packs
+ as many resource records as possible into a message. <command>many-answers</command> is
+ more efficient, but is only known to be understood by <acronym>BIND</acronym> 9, <acronym>BIND</acronym>
+ 8.x, and patched versions of <acronym>BIND</acronym>
+ 4.9.5. You can specify which method
+ to use for a server with the <command>transfer-format</command> option.
+ If <command>transfer-format</command> is not
+ specified, the <command>transfer-format</command>
+ specified
+ by the <command>options</command> statement will be
+ used.
+ </para>
+
+ <para><command>transfers</command>
+ is used to limit the number of concurrent inbound zone
+ transfers from the specified server. If no
+ <command>transfers</command> clause is specified, the
+ limit is set according to the
+ <command>transfers-per-ns</command> option.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The <command>keys</command> clause identifies a
+ <command>key_id</command> defined by the <command>key</command> statement,
+ to be used for transaction security (TSIG, <xref linkend="tsig"/>)
+ when talking to the remote server.
+ When a request is sent to the remote server, a request signature
+ will be generated using the key specified here and appended to the
+ message. A request originating from the remote server is not
+ required
+ to be signed by this key.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Only a single key per server is currently supported.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The <command>transfer-source</command> and
+ <command>transfer-source-v6</command> clauses specify
+ the IPv4 and IPv6 source
+ address to be used for zone transfer with the remote server,
+ respectively.
+ For an IPv4 remote server, only <command>transfer-source</command> can
+ be specified.
+ Similarly, for an IPv6 remote server, only
+ <command>transfer-source-v6</command> can be
+ specified.
+ For more details, see the description of
+ <command>transfer-source</command> and
+ <command>transfer-source-v6</command> in
+ <xref linkend="zone_transfers"/>.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The <command>notify-source</command> and
+ <command>notify-source-v6</command> clauses specify the
+ IPv4 and IPv6 source address to be used for notify
+ messages sent to remote servers, respectively. For an
+ IPv4 remote server, only <command>notify-source</command>
+ can be specified. Similarly, for an IPv6 remote server,
+ only <command>notify-source-v6</command> can be specified.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The <command>query-source</command> and
+ <command>query-source-v6</command> clauses specify the
+ IPv4 and IPv6 source address to be used for queries
+ sent to remote servers, respectively. For an IPv4
+ remote server, only <command>query-source</command> can
+ be specified. Similarly, for an IPv6 remote server,
+ only <command>query-source-v6</command> can be specified.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The <command>request-nsid</command> clause determines
+ whether the local server will add a NSID EDNS option
+ to requests sent to the server. This overrides
+ <command>request-nsid</command> set at the view or
+ option level.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The <command>send-cookie</command> clause determines
+ whether the local server will add a COOKIE EDNS option
+ to requests sent to the server. This overrides
+ <command>send-cookie</command> set at the view or
+ option level. The <command>named</command> server may
+ determine that COOKIE is not supported by the remote server
+ and not add a COOKIE EDNS option to requests.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section xml:id="statschannels"><info><title><command>statistics-channels</command> Statement Grammar</title></info>
+ <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="statistics-channels.grammar.xml"/>
+ </section>
+
+ <section xml:id="statistics_channels"><info><title><command>statistics-channels</command> Statement Definition and
+ Usage</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ The <command>statistics-channels</command> statement
+ declares communication channels to be used by system
+ administrators to get access to statistics information of
+ the name server.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ This statement intends to be flexible to support multiple
+ communication protocols in the future, but currently only
+ HTTP access is supported.
+ It requires that BIND 9 be compiled with libxml2 and/or
+ json-c (also known as libjson0); the
+ <command>statistics-channels</command> statement is
+ still accepted even if it is built without the library,
+ but any HTTP access will fail with an error.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ An <command>inet</command> control channel is a TCP socket
+ listening at the specified <command>ip_port</command> on the
+ specified <command>ip_addr</command>, which can be an IPv4 or IPv6
+ address. An <command>ip_addr</command> of <literal>*</literal>
+ (asterisk) is
+ interpreted as the IPv4 wildcard address; connections will be
+ accepted on any of the system's IPv4 addresses.
+ To listen on the IPv6 wildcard address,
+ use an <command>ip_addr</command> of <literal>::</literal>.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ If no port is specified, port 80 is used for HTTP channels.
+ The asterisk "<literal>*</literal>" cannot be used for
+ <command>ip_port</command>.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The attempt of opening a statistics channel is
+ restricted by the optional <command>allow</command> clause.
+ Connections to the statistics channel are permitted based on the
+ <command>address_match_list</command>.
+ If no <command>allow</command> clause is present,
+ <command>named</command> accepts connection
+ attempts from any address; since the statistics may
+ contain sensitive internal information, it is highly
+ recommended to restrict the source of connection requests
+ appropriately.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ If no <command>statistics-channels</command> statement is present,
+ <command>named</command> will not open any communication channels.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The statistics are available in various formats and views
+ depending on the URI used to access them. For example, if
+ the statistics channel is configured to listen on 127.0.0.1
+ port 8888, then the statistics are accessible in XML format at
+ <link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://127.0.0.1:8888/">http://127.0.0.1:8888/</link> or
+ <link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://127.0.0.1:8888/xml">http://127.0.0.1:8888/xml</link>. A CSS file is
+ included which can format the XML statistics into tables
+ when viewed with a stylesheet-capable browser, and into
+ charts and graphs using the Google Charts API when using a
+ javascript-capable browser.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Applications that depend on a particular XML schema
+ can request
+ <link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://127.0.0.1:8888/xml/v2">http://127.0.0.1:8888/xml/v2</link> for version 2
+ of the statistics XML schema or
+ <link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://127.0.0.1:8888/xml/v3">http://127.0.0.1:8888/xml/v3</link> for version 3.
+ If the requested schema is supported by the server, then
+ it will respond; if not, it will return a "page not found"
+ error.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Broken-out subsets of the statistics can be viewed at
+ <link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://127.0.0.1:8888/xml/v3/status">http://127.0.0.1:8888/xml/v3/status</link>
+ (server uptime and last reconfiguration time),
+ <link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://127.0.0.1:8888/xml/v3/server">http://127.0.0.1:8888/xml/v3/server</link>
+ (server and resolver statistics),
+ <link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://127.0.0.1:8888/xml/v3/zones">http://127.0.0.1:8888/xml/v3/zones</link>
+ (zone statistics),
+ <link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://127.0.0.1:8888/xml/v3/net">http://127.0.0.1:8888/xml/v3/net</link>
+ (network status and socket statistics),
+ <link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://127.0.0.1:8888/xml/v3/mem">http://127.0.0.1:8888/xml/v3/mem</link>
+ (memory manager statistics),
+ <link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://127.0.0.1:8888/xml/v3/tasks">http://127.0.0.1:8888/xml/v3/tasks</link>
+ (task manager statistics), and
+ <link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://127.0.0.1:8888/xml/v3/traffic">http://127.0.0.1:8888/xml/v3/traffic</link>
+ (traffic sizes).
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The full set of statistics can also be read in JSON format at
+ <link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://127.0.0.1:8888/json">http://127.0.0.1:8888/json</link>,
+ with the broken-out subsets at
+ <link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://127.0.0.1:8888/json/v1/status">http://127.0.0.1:8888/json/v1/status</link>
+ (server uptime and last reconfiguration time),
+ <link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://127.0.0.1:8888/json/v1/server">http://127.0.0.1:8888/json/v1/server</link>
+ (server and resolver statistics),
+ <link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://127.0.0.1:8888/json/v1/zones">http://127.0.0.1:8888/json/v1/zones</link>
+ (zone statistics),
+ <link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://127.0.0.1:8888/json/v1/net">http://127.0.0.1:8888/json/v1/net</link>
+ (network status and socket statistics),
+ <link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://127.0.0.1:8888/json/v1/mem">http://127.0.0.1:8888/json/v1/mem</link>
+ (memory manager statistics),
+ <link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://127.0.0.1:8888/json/v1/tasks">http://127.0.0.1:8888/json/v1/tasks</link>
+ (task manager statistics), and
+ <link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://127.0.0.1:8888/json/v1/traffic">http://127.0.0.1:8888/json/v1/traffic</link>
+ (traffic sizes).
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section xml:id="trusted-keys"><info><title><command>trusted-keys</command> Statement Grammar</title></info>
+ <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="trusted-keys.grammar.xml"/>
+ </section>
+ <section xml:id="trusted_keys"><info><title><command>trusted-keys</command> Statement Definition
+ and Usage</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ The <command>trusted-keys</command> statement defines
+ DNSSEC security roots. DNSSEC is described in <xref linkend="DNSSEC"/>. A security root is defined when the
+ public key for a non-authoritative zone is known, but
+ cannot be securely obtained through DNS, either because
+ it is the DNS root zone or because its parent zone is
+ unsigned. Once a key has been configured as a trusted
+ key, it is treated as if it had been validated and
+ proven secure. The resolver attempts DNSSEC validation
+ on all DNS data in subdomains of a security root.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ All keys (and corresponding zones) listed in
+ <command>trusted-keys</command> are deemed to exist regardless
+ of what parent zones say. Similarly for all keys listed in
+ <command>trusted-keys</command> only those keys are
+ used to validate the DNSKEY RRset. The parent's DS RRset
+ will not be used.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The <command>trusted-keys</command> statement can contain
+ multiple key entries, each consisting of the key's
+ domain name, flags, protocol, algorithm, and the Base64
+ representation of the key data.
+ Spaces, tabs, newlines and carriage returns are ignored
+ in the key data, so the configuration may be split up into
+ multiple lines.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <command>trusted-keys</command> may be set at the top level
+ of <filename>named.conf</filename> or within a view. If it is
+ set in both places, they are additive: keys defined at the top
+ level are inherited by all views, but keys defined in a view
+ are only used within that view.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Validation below specified names can be temporarily disabled
+ by using <command>rndc nta</command>.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section xml:id="managed_keys"><info><title><command>managed-keys</command> Statement Grammar</title></info>
+ <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="managed-keys.grammar.xml"/>
+ </section>
+ <section xml:id="managed-keys"><info><title><command>managed-keys</command> Statement Definition
+ and Usage</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ The <command>managed-keys</command> statement, like
+ <command>trusted-keys</command>, defines DNSSEC
+ security roots. The difference is that
+ <command>managed-keys</command> can be kept up to date
+ automatically, without intervention from the resolver
+ operator.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Suppose, for example, that a zone's key-signing
+ key was compromised, and the zone owner had to revoke and
+ replace the key. A resolver which had the old key in a
+ <command>trusted-keys</command> statement would be
+ unable to validate this zone any longer; it would
+ reply with a SERVFAIL response code. This would
+ continue until the resolver operator had updated the
+ <command>trusted-keys</command> statement with the new key.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ If, however, the zone were listed in a
+ <command>managed-keys</command> statement instead, then the
+ zone owner could add a "stand-by" key to the zone in advance.
+ <command>named</command> would store the stand-by key, and
+ when the original key was revoked, <command>named</command>
+ would be able to transition smoothly to the new key. It would
+ also recognize that the old key had been revoked, and cease
+ using that key to validate answers, minimizing the damage that
+ the compromised key could do.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ A <command>managed-keys</command> statement contains a list of
+ the keys to be managed, along with information about how the
+ keys are to be initialized for the first time. The only
+ initialization method currently supported is
+ <literal>initial-key</literal>.
+ This means the <command>managed-keys</command> statement must
+ contain a copy of the initializing key. (Future releases may
+ allow keys to be initialized by other methods, eliminating this
+ requirement.)
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Consequently, a <command>managed-keys</command> statement
+ appears similar to a <command>trusted-keys</command>, differing
+ in the presence of the second field, containing the keyword
+ <literal>initial-key</literal>. The difference is, whereas the
+ keys listed in a <command>trusted-keys</command> continue to be
+ trusted until they are removed from
+ <filename>named.conf</filename>, an initializing key listed
+ in a <command>managed-keys</command> statement is only trusted
+ <emphasis>once</emphasis>: for as long as it takes to load the
+ managed key database and start the RFC 5011 key maintenance
+ process.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The first time <command>named</command> runs with a managed key
+ configured in <filename>named.conf</filename>, it fetches the
+ DNSKEY RRset directly from the zone apex, and validates it
+ using the key specified in the <command>managed-keys</command>
+ statement. If the DNSKEY RRset is validly signed, then it is
+ used as the basis for a new managed keys database.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ From that point on, whenever <command>named</command> runs, it
+ sees the <command>managed-keys</command> statement, checks to
+ make sure RFC 5011 key maintenance has already been initialized
+ for the specified domain, and if so, it simply moves on. The
+ key specified in the <command>managed-keys</command>
+ statement is not used to validate answers; it has been
+ superseded by the key or keys stored in the managed keys database.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The next time <command>named</command> runs after a name
+ has been <emphasis>removed</emphasis> from the
+ <command>managed-keys</command> statement, the corresponding
+ zone will be removed from the managed keys database,
+ and RFC 5011 key maintenance will no longer be used for that
+ domain.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ In the current implementation, the managed keys database
+ is stored as a master-format zone file.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ On servers which do not use views, this file is named
+ <filename>managed-keys.bind</filename>. When views are in
+ use, there will be a separate managed keys database for each
+ view; the filename will be the view name (or, if a view name
+ contains characters which would make it illegal as a filename,
+ a hash of the view name), followed by
+ the suffix <filename>.mkeys</filename>.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ When the key database is changed, the zone is updated.
+ As with any other dynamic zone, changes will be written
+ into a journal file, e.g.,
+ <filename>managed-keys.bind.jnl</filename> or
+ <filename>internal.mkeys.jnl</filename>.
+ Changes are committed to the master file as soon as
+ possible afterward; this will usually occur within 30
+ seconds. So, whenever <command>named</command> is using
+ automatic key maintenance, the zone file and journal file
+ can be expected to exist in the working directory.
+ (For this reason among others, the working directory
+ should be always be writable by <command>named</command>.)
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ If the <command>dnssec-validation</command> option is
+ set to <userinput>auto</userinput>, <command>named</command>
+ will automatically initialize a managed key for the
+ root zone. The key that is used to initialize the key
+ maintenance process is stored in <filename>bind.keys</filename>;
+ the location of this file can be overridden with the
+ <command>bindkeys-file</command> option. As a fallback
+ in the event no <filename>bind.keys</filename> can be
+ found, the initializing key is also compiled directly
+ into <command>named</command>.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section xml:id="view_statement_grammar"><info><title><command>view</command> Statement Grammar</title></info>
+
+<programlisting><command>view</command> <replaceable>view_name</replaceable> [ <replaceable>class</replaceable> ] <command>{</command>
+ <command>match-clients {</command> <replaceable>address_match_list</replaceable> <command>}</command> ;
+ <command>match-destinations {</command> <replaceable>address_match_list</replaceable> <command>}</command> ;
+ <command>match-recursive-only</command> <replaceable>yes_or_no</replaceable> ;
+ [ <replaceable>view_option</replaceable> ; ... ]
+ [ <replaceable>zone_statement</replaceable> ; ... ]
+<command>} </command>;
+</programlisting>
+
+ </section>
+ <section xml:id="view_statement"><info><title><command>view</command> Statement Definition and Usage</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ The <command>view</command> statement is a powerful
+ feature
+ of <acronym>BIND</acronym> 9 that lets a name server
+ answer a DNS query differently
+ depending on who is asking. It is particularly useful for
+ implementing
+ split DNS setups without having to run multiple servers.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Each <command>view</command> statement defines a view
+ of the
+ DNS namespace that will be seen by a subset of clients. A client
+ matches
+ a view if its source IP address matches the
+ <varname>address_match_list</varname> of the view's
+ <command>match-clients</command> clause and its
+ destination IP address matches
+ the <varname>address_match_list</varname> of the
+ view's
+ <command>match-destinations</command> clause. If not
+ specified, both
+ <command>match-clients</command> and <command>match-destinations</command>
+ default to matching all addresses. In addition to checking IP
+ addresses
+ <command>match-clients</command> and <command>match-destinations</command>
+ can also take <command>keys</command> which provide an
+ mechanism for the
+ client to select the view. A view can also be specified
+ as <command>match-recursive-only</command>, which
+ means that only recursive
+ requests from matching clients will match that view.
+ The order of the <command>view</command> statements is
+ significant —
+ a client request will be resolved in the context of the first
+ <command>view</command> that it matches.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Zones defined within a <command>view</command>
+ statement will
+ only be accessible to clients that match the <command>view</command>.
+ By defining a zone of the same name in multiple views, different
+ zone data can be given to different clients, for example,
+ "internal"
+ and "external" clients in a split DNS setup.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Many of the options given in the <command>options</command> statement
+ can also be used within a <command>view</command>
+ statement, and then
+ apply only when resolving queries with that view. When no
+ view-specific
+ value is given, the value in the <command>options</command> statement
+ is used as a default. Also, zone options can have default values
+ specified
+ in the <command>view</command> statement; these
+ view-specific defaults
+ take precedence over those in the <command>options</command> statement.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Views are class specific. If no class is given, class IN
+ is assumed. Note that all non-IN views must contain a hint zone,
+ since only the IN class has compiled-in default hints.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ If there are no <command>view</command> statements in
+ the config
+ file, a default view that matches any client is automatically
+ created
+ in class IN. Any <command>zone</command> statements
+ specified on
+ the top level of the configuration file are considered to be part
+ of
+ this default view, and the <command>options</command>
+ statement will
+ apply to the default view. If any explicit <command>view</command>
+ statements are present, all <command>zone</command>
+ statements must
+ occur inside <command>view</command> statements.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Here is an example of a typical split DNS setup implemented
+ using <command>view</command> statements:
+ </para>
+
+<programlisting>view "internal" {
+ // This should match our internal networks.
+ match-clients { 10.0.0.0/8; };
+
+ // Provide recursive service to internal
+ // clients only.
+ recursion yes;
+
+ // Provide a complete view of the example.com
+ // zone including addresses of internal hosts.
+ zone "example.com" {
+ type master;
+ file "example-internal.db";
+ };
+};
+
+view "external" {
+ // Match all clients not matched by the
+ // previous view.
+ match-clients { any; };
+
+ // Refuse recursive service to external clients.
+ recursion no;
+
+ // Provide a restricted view of the example.com
+ // zone containing only publicly accessible hosts.
+ zone "example.com" {
+ type master;
+ file "example-external.db";
+ };
+};
+</programlisting>
+
+ </section>
+ <section xml:id="zone_statement_grammar"><info><title><command>zone</command>
+ Statement Grammar</title></info>
+
+<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="master.zoneopt.xml"/>
+<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="slave.zoneopt.xml"/>
+<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="hint.zoneopt.xml"/>
+<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="stub.zoneopt.xml"/>
+<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="static-stub.zoneopt.xml"/>
+<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="forward.zoneopt.xml"/>
+<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="redirect.zoneopt.xml"/>
+<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="delegation-only.zoneopt.xml"/>
+<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="in-view.zoneopt.xml"/>
+
+ </section>
+ <section xml:id="zone_statement"><info><title><command>zone</command> Statement Definition and Usage</title></info>
+
+ <section xml:id="zone_types"><info><title>Zone Types</title></info>
+ <para>
+ The <command>type</command> keyword is required
+ for the <command>zone</command> configuration unless
+ it is an <command>in-view</command> configuration. Its
+ acceptable values include: <varname>delegation-only</varname>,
+ <varname>forward</varname>, <varname>hint</varname>,
+ <varname>master</varname>, <varname>redirect</varname>,
+ <varname>slave</varname>, <varname>static-stub</varname>,
+ and <varname>stub</varname>.
+ </para>
+
+ <informaltable colsep="0" rowsep="0">
+ <tgroup cols="2" colsep="0" rowsep="0" tgroupstyle="3Level-table">
+ <!--colspec colname="1" colnum="1" colsep="0" colwidth="1.108in"/-->
+ <!--colspec colname="2" colnum="2" colsep="0" colwidth="4.017in"/-->
+ <colspec colname="1" colnum="1" colsep="0"/>
+ <colspec colname="2" colnum="2" colsep="0" colwidth="4.017in"/>
+ <tbody>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ <varname>master</varname>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ The server has a master copy of the data
+ for the zone and will be able to provide authoritative
+ answers for
+ it.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ <varname>slave</varname>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ A slave zone is a replica of a master
+ zone. The <command>masters</command> list
+ specifies one or more IP addresses
+ of master servers that the slave contacts to update
+ its copy of the zone.
+ Masters list elements can also be names of other
+ masters lists.
+ By default, transfers are made from port 53 on the
+ servers; this can
+ be changed for all servers by specifying a port number
+ before the
+ list of IP addresses, or on a per-server basis after
+ the IP address.
+ Authentication to the master can also be done with
+ per-server TSIG keys.
+ If a file is specified, then the
+ replica will be written to this file whenever the zone
+ is changed,
+ and reloaded from this file on a server restart. Use
+ of a file is
+ recommended, since it often speeds server startup and
+ eliminates
+ a needless waste of bandwidth. Note that for large
+ numbers (in the
+ tens or hundreds of thousands) of zones per server, it
+ is best to
+ use a two-level naming scheme for zone filenames. For
+ example,
+ a slave server for the zone <literal>example.com</literal> might place
+ the zone contents into a file called
+ <filename>ex/example.com</filename> where <filename>ex/</filename> is
+ just the first two letters of the zone name. (Most
+ operating systems
+ behave very slowly if you put 100000 files into
+ a single directory.)
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ <varname>stub</varname>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ A stub zone is similar to a slave zone,
+ except that it replicates only the NS records of a
+ master zone instead
+ of the entire zone. Stub zones are not a standard part
+ of the DNS;
+ they are a feature specific to the <acronym>BIND</acronym> implementation.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Stub zones can be used to eliminate the need for glue
+ NS record
+ in a parent zone at the expense of maintaining a stub
+ zone entry and
+ a set of name server addresses in <filename>named.conf</filename>.
+ This usage is not recommended for new configurations,
+ and BIND 9
+ supports it only in a limited way.
+ In <acronym>BIND</acronym> 4/8, zone
+ transfers of a parent zone
+ included the NS records from stub children of that
+ zone. This meant
+ that, in some cases, users could get away with
+ configuring child stubs
+ only in the master server for the parent zone. <acronym>BIND</acronym>
+ 9 never mixes together zone data from different zones
+ in this
+ way. Therefore, if a <acronym>BIND</acronym> 9 master serving a parent
+ zone has child stub zones configured, all the slave
+ servers for the
+ parent zone also need to have the same child stub
+ zones
+ configured.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Stub zones can also be used as a way of forcing the
+ resolution
+ of a given domain to use a particular set of
+ authoritative servers.
+ For example, the caching name servers on a private
+ network using
+ RFC1918 addressing may be configured with stub zones
+ for
+ <literal>10.in-addr.arpa</literal>
+ to use a set of internal name servers as the
+ authoritative
+ servers for that domain.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ <varname>static-stub</varname>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ A static-stub zone is similar to a stub zone
+ with the following exceptions:
+ the zone data is statically configured, rather
+ than transferred from a master server;
+ when recursion is necessary for a query that
+ matches a static-stub zone, the locally
+ configured data (nameserver names and glue addresses)
+ is always used even if different authoritative
+ information is cached.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Zone data is configured via the
+ <command>server-addresses</command> and
+ <command>server-names</command> zone options.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The zone data is maintained in the form of NS
+ and (if necessary) glue A or AAAA RRs
+ internally, which can be seen by dumping zone
+ databases by <command>rndc dumpdb -all</command>.
+ The configured RRs are considered local configuration
+ parameters rather than public data.
+ Non recursive queries (i.e., those with the RD
+ bit off) to a static-stub zone are therefore
+ prohibited and will be responded with REFUSED.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Since the data is statically configured, no
+ zone maintenance action takes place for a static-stub
+ zone.
+ For example, there is no periodic refresh
+ attempt, and an incoming notify message
+ will be rejected with an rcode of NOTAUTH.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Each static-stub zone is configured with
+ internally generated NS and (if necessary)
+ glue A or AAAA RRs
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ <varname>forward</varname>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ A "forward zone" is a way to configure
+ forwarding on a per-domain basis. A <command>zone</command> statement
+ of type <command>forward</command> can
+ contain a <command>forward</command>
+ and/or <command>forwarders</command>
+ statement,
+ which will apply to queries within the domain given by
+ the zone
+ name. If no <command>forwarders</command>
+ statement is present or
+ an empty list for <command>forwarders</command> is given, then no
+ forwarding will be done for the domain, canceling the
+ effects of
+ any forwarders in the <command>options</command> statement. Thus
+ if you want to use this type of zone to change the
+ behavior of the
+ global <command>forward</command> option
+ (that is, "forward first"
+ to, then "forward only", or vice versa, but want to
+ use the same
+ servers as set globally) you need to re-specify the
+ global forwarders.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ <varname>hint</varname>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ The initial set of root name servers is
+ specified using a "hint zone". When the server starts
+ up, it uses
+ the root hints to find a root name server and get the
+ most recent
+ list of root name servers. If no hint zone is
+ specified for class
+ IN, the server uses a compiled-in default set of root
+ servers hints.
+ Classes other than IN have no built-in defaults hints.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ <varname>redirect</varname>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Redirect zones are used to provide answers to
+ queries when normal resolution would result in
+ NXDOMAIN being returned.
+ Only one redirect zone is supported
+ per view. <command>allow-query</command> can be
+ used to restrict which clients see these answers.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ If the client has requested DNSSEC records (DO=1) and
+ the NXDOMAIN response is signed then no substitution
+ will occur.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ To redirect all NXDOMAIN responses to
+ 100.100.100.2 and
+ 2001:ffff:ffff::100.100.100.2, one would
+ configure a type redirect zone named ".",
+ with the zone file containing wildcard records
+ that point to the desired addresses:
+ <literal>"*. IN A 100.100.100.2"</literal>
+ and
+ <literal>"*. IN AAAA 2001:ffff:ffff::100.100.100.2"</literal>.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ To redirect all Spanish names (under .ES) one
+ would use similar entries but with the names
+ "*.ES." instead of "*.". To redirect all
+ commercial Spanish names (under COM.ES) one
+ would use wildcard entries called "*.COM.ES.".
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Note that the redirect zone supports all
+ possible types; it is not limited to A and
+ AAAA records.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Because redirect zones are not referenced
+ directly by name, they are not kept in the
+ zone lookup table with normal master and slave
+ zones. Consequently, it is not currently possible
+ to use
+ <command>rndc reload
+ <replaceable>zonename</replaceable></command>
+ to reload a redirect zone. However, when using
+ <command>rndc reload</command> without specifying
+ a zone name, redirect zones will be reloaded along
+ with other zones.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ <varname>delegation-only</varname>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ This is used to enforce the delegation-only
+ status of infrastructure zones (e.g. COM,
+ NET, ORG). Any answer that is received
+ without an explicit or implicit delegation
+ in the authority section will be treated
+ as NXDOMAIN. This does not apply to the
+ zone apex. This should not be applied to
+ leaf zones.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <varname>delegation-only</varname> has no
+ effect on answers received from forwarders.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ See caveats in <xref linkend="root_delegation_only"/>.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ </tbody>
+ </tgroup>
+ </informaltable>
+ </section>
+
+ <section xml:id="class"><info><title>Class</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ The zone's name may optionally be followed by a class. If
+ a class is not specified, class <literal>IN</literal> (for <varname>Internet</varname>),
+ is assumed. This is correct for the vast majority of cases.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The <literal>hesiod</literal> class is
+ named for an information service from MIT's Project Athena. It
+ is
+ used to share information about various systems databases, such
+ as users, groups, printers and so on. The keyword
+ <literal>HS</literal> is
+ a synonym for hesiod.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Another MIT development is Chaosnet, a LAN protocol created
+ in the mid-1970s. Zone data for it can be specified with the <literal>CHAOS</literal> class.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section xml:id="zone_options"><info><title>Zone Options</title></info>
+
+ <variablelist>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>allow-notify</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ See the description of
+ <command>allow-notify</command> in <xref linkend="access_control"/>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>allow-query</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ See the description of
+ <command>allow-query</command> in <xref linkend="access_control"/>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>allow-query-on</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ See the description of
+ <command>allow-query-on</command> in <xref linkend="access_control"/>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>allow-transfer</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ See the description of <command>allow-transfer</command>
+ in <xref linkend="access_control"/>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>allow-update</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ See the description of <command>allow-update</command>
+ in <xref linkend="access_control"/>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>update-policy</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Specifies a "Simple Secure Update" policy. See
+ <xref linkend="dynamic_update_policies"/>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>allow-update-forwarding</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ See the description of <command>allow-update-forwarding</command>
+ in <xref linkend="access_control"/>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>also-notify</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Only meaningful if <command>notify</command>
+ is
+ active for this zone. The set of machines that will
+ receive a
+ <literal>DNS NOTIFY</literal> message
+ for this zone is made up of all the listed name servers
+ (other than
+ the primary master) for the zone plus any IP addresses
+ specified
+ with <command>also-notify</command>. A port
+ may be specified
+ with each <command>also-notify</command>
+ address to send the notify
+ messages to a port other than the default of 53.
+ A TSIG key may also be specified to cause the
+ <literal>NOTIFY</literal> to be signed by the
+ given key.
+ <command>also-notify</command> is not
+ meaningful for stub zones.
+ The default is the empty list.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>check-names</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ This option is used to restrict the character set and
+ syntax of
+ certain domain names in master files and/or DNS responses
+ received from the
+ network. The default varies according to zone type. For <command>master</command> zones the default is <command>fail</command>. For <command>slave</command>
+ zones the default is <command>warn</command>.
+ It is not implemented for <command>hint</command> zones.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>check-mx</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ See the description of
+ <command>check-mx</command> in <xref linkend="boolean_options"/>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>check-spf</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ See the description of
+ <command>check-spf</command> in <xref linkend="boolean_options"/>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>check-wildcard</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ See the description of
+ <command>check-wildcard</command> in <xref linkend="boolean_options"/>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>check-integrity</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ See the description of
+ <command>check-integrity</command> in <xref linkend="boolean_options"/>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>check-sibling</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ See the description of
+ <command>check-sibling</command> in <xref linkend="boolean_options"/>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>zero-no-soa-ttl</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ See the description of
+ <command>zero-no-soa-ttl</command> in <xref linkend="boolean_options"/>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>update-check-ksk</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ See the description of
+ <command>update-check-ksk</command> in <xref linkend="boolean_options"/>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>dnssec-loadkeys-interval</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ See the description of
+ <command>dnssec-loadkeys-interval</command> in <xref linkend="options"/>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>dnssec-update-mode</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ See the description of
+ <command>dnssec-update-mode</command> in <xref linkend="options"/>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>dnssec-dnskey-kskonly</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ See the description of
+ <command>dnssec-dnskey-kskonly</command> in <xref linkend="boolean_options"/>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>try-tcp-refresh</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ See the description of
+ <command>try-tcp-refresh</command> in <xref linkend="boolean_options"/>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>database</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Specify the type of database to be used for storing the
+ zone data. The string following the <command>database</command> keyword
+ is interpreted as a list of whitespace-delimited words.
+ The first word
+ identifies the database type, and any subsequent words are
+ passed
+ as arguments to the database to be interpreted in a way
+ specific
+ to the database type.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The default is <userinput>"rbt"</userinput>, BIND 9's
+ native in-memory
+ red-black-tree database. This database does not take
+ arguments.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Other values are possible if additional database drivers
+ have been linked into the server. Some sample drivers are
+ included
+ with the distribution but none are linked in by default.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>dialup</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ See the description of
+ <command>dialup</command> in <xref linkend="boolean_options"/>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>delegation-only</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The flag only applies to forward, hint and stub
+ zones. If set to <userinput>yes</userinput>,
+ then the zone will also be treated as if it is
+ also a delegation-only type zone.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ See caveats in <xref linkend="root_delegation_only"/>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>file</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Set the zone's filename. In <command>master</command>,
+ <command>hint</command>, and <command>redirect</command>
+ zones which do not have <command>masters</command>
+ defined, zone data is loaded from this file. In
+ <command>slave</command>, <command>stub</command>, and
+ <command>redirect</command> zones which do have
+ <command>masters</command> defined, zone data is
+ retrieved from another server and saved in this file.
+ This option is not applicable to other zone types.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>forward</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Only meaningful if the zone has a forwarders
+ list. The <command>only</command> value causes
+ the lookup to fail
+ after trying the forwarders and getting no answer, while <command>first</command> would
+ allow a normal lookup to be tried.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>forwarders</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Used to override the list of global forwarders.
+ If it is not specified in a zone of type <command>forward</command>,
+ no forwarding is done for the zone and the global options are
+ not used.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>ixfr-base</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Was used in <acronym>BIND</acronym> 8 to
+ specify the name
+ of the transaction log (journal) file for dynamic update
+ and IXFR.
+ <acronym>BIND</acronym> 9 ignores the option
+ and constructs the name of the journal
+ file by appending "<filename>.jnl</filename>"
+ to the name of the
+ zone file.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>ixfr-tmp-file</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Was an undocumented option in <acronym>BIND</acronym> 8.
+ Ignored in <acronym>BIND</acronym> 9.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>journal</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Allow the default journal's filename to be overridden.
+ The default is the zone's filename with "<filename>.jnl</filename>" appended.
+ This is applicable to <command>master</command> and <command>slave</command> zones.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>max-journal-size</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ See the description of
+ <command>max-journal-size</command> in <xref linkend="server_resource_limits"/>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>max-records</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ See the description of
+ <command>max-records</command> in <xref linkend="server_resource_limits"/>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>max-transfer-time-in</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ See the description of
+ <command>max-transfer-time-in</command> in <xref linkend="zone_transfers"/>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>max-transfer-idle-in</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ See the description of
+ <command>max-transfer-idle-in</command> in <xref linkend="zone_transfers"/>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>max-transfer-time-out</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ See the description of
+ <command>max-transfer-time-out</command> in <xref linkend="zone_transfers"/>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>max-transfer-idle-out</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ See the description of
+ <command>max-transfer-idle-out</command> in <xref linkend="zone_transfers"/>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>notify</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ See the description of
+ <command>notify</command> in <xref linkend="boolean_options"/>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>notify-delay</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ See the description of
+ <command>notify-delay</command> in <xref linkend="tuning"/>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>notify-to-soa</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ See the description of
+ <command>notify-to-soa</command> in
+ <xref linkend="boolean_options"/>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>pubkey</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ In <acronym>BIND</acronym> 8, this option was
+ intended for specifying
+ a public zone key for verification of signatures in DNSSEC
+ signed
+ zones when they are loaded from disk. <acronym>BIND</acronym> 9 does not verify signatures
+ on load and ignores the option.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>zone-statistics</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ See the description of
+ <command>zone-statistics</command> in
+ <xref linkend="options"/>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>server-addresses</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Only meaningful for static-stub zones.
+ This is a list of IP addresses to which queries
+ should be sent in recursive resolution for the
+ zone.
+ A non empty list for this option will internally
+ configure the apex NS RR with associated glue A or
+ AAAA RRs.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ For example, if "example.com" is configured as a
+ static-stub zone with 192.0.2.1 and 2001:db8::1234
+ in a <command>server-addresses</command> option,
+ the following RRs will be internally configured.
+ </para>
+<programlisting>example.com. NS example.com.
+example.com. A 192.0.2.1
+example.com. AAAA 2001:db8::1234</programlisting>
+ <para>
+ These records are internally used to resolve
+ names under the static-stub zone.
+ For instance, if the server receives a query for
+ "www.example.com" with the RD bit on, the server
+ will initiate recursive resolution and send
+ queries to 192.0.2.1 and/or 2001:db8::1234.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>server-names</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Only meaningful for static-stub zones.
+ This is a list of domain names of nameservers that
+ act as authoritative servers of the static-stub
+ zone.
+ These names will be resolved to IP addresses when
+ <command>named</command> needs to send queries to
+ these servers.
+ To make this supplemental resolution successful,
+ these names must not be a subdomain of the origin
+ name of static-stub zone.
+ That is, when "example.net" is the origin of a
+ static-stub zone, "ns.example" and
+ "master.example.com" can be specified in the
+ <command>server-names</command> option, but
+ "ns.example.net" cannot, and will be rejected by
+ the configuration parser.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ A non empty list for this option will internally
+ configure the apex NS RR with the specified names.
+ For example, if "example.com" is configured as a
+ static-stub zone with "ns1.example.net" and
+ "ns2.example.net"
+ in a <command>server-names</command> option,
+ the following RRs will be internally configured.
+ </para>
+<programlisting>example.com. NS ns1.example.net.
+example.com. NS ns2.example.net.
+</programlisting>
+ <para>
+ These records are internally used to resolve
+ names under the static-stub zone.
+ For instance, if the server receives a query for
+ "www.example.com" with the RD bit on, the server
+ initiate recursive resolution,
+ resolve "ns1.example.net" and/or
+ "ns2.example.net" to IP addresses, and then send
+ queries to (one or more of) these addresses.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>sig-validity-interval</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ See the description of
+ <command>sig-validity-interval</command> in <xref linkend="tuning"/>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>sig-signing-nodes</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ See the description of
+ <command>sig-signing-nodes</command> in <xref linkend="tuning"/>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>sig-signing-signatures</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ See the description of
+ <command>sig-signing-signatures</command> in <xref linkend="tuning"/>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>sig-signing-type</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ See the description of
+ <command>sig-signing-type</command> in <xref linkend="tuning"/>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>transfer-source</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ See the description of
+ <command>transfer-source</command> in <xref linkend="zone_transfers"/>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>transfer-source-v6</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ See the description of
+ <command>transfer-source-v6</command> in <xref linkend="zone_transfers"/>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>alt-transfer-source</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ See the description of
+ <command>alt-transfer-source</command> in <xref linkend="zone_transfers"/>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>alt-transfer-source-v6</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ See the description of
+ <command>alt-transfer-source-v6</command> in <xref linkend="zone_transfers"/>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>use-alt-transfer-source</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ See the description of
+ <command>use-alt-transfer-source</command> in <xref linkend="zone_transfers"/>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>notify-source</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ See the description of
+ <command>notify-source</command> in <xref linkend="zone_transfers"/>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>notify-source-v6</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ See the description of
+ <command>notify-source-v6</command> in <xref linkend="zone_transfers"/>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>min-refresh-time</command></term>
+ <term><command>max-refresh-time</command></term>
+ <term><command>min-retry-time</command></term>
+ <term><command>max-retry-time</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ See the description in <xref linkend="tuning"/>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>ixfr-from-differences</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ See the description of
+ <command>ixfr-from-differences</command> in <xref linkend="boolean_options"/>.
+ (Note that the <command>ixfr-from-differences</command>
+ <userinput>master</userinput> and
+ <userinput>slave</userinput> choices are not
+ available at the zone level.)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>key-directory</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ See the description of
+ <command>key-directory</command> in <xref linkend="options"/>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>auto-dnssec</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ See the description of
+ <command>auto-dnssec</command> in
+ <xref linkend="options"/>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>serial-update-method</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ See the description of
+ <command>serial-update-method</command> in
+ <xref linkend="options"/>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>inline-signing</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ If <literal>yes</literal>, this enables
+ "bump in the wire" signing of a zone, where a
+ unsigned zone is transferred in or loaded from
+ disk and a signed version of the zone is served,
+ with possibly, a different serial number. This
+ behavior is disabled by default.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>multi-master</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ See the description of <command>multi-master</command> in
+ <xref linkend="boolean_options"/>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>masterfile-format</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ See the description of <command>masterfile-format</command>
+ in <xref linkend="tuning"/>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>max-zone-ttl</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ See the description of <command>max-zone-ttl</command>
+ in <xref linkend="options"/>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>dnssec-secure-to-insecure</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ See the description of
+ <command>dnssec-secure-to-insecure</command> in <xref linkend="boolean_options"/>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ </variablelist>
+
+ </section>
+ <section xml:id="dynamic_update_policies"><info><title>Dynamic Update Policies</title></info>
+
+ <para><acronym>BIND</acronym> 9 supports two alternative
+ methods of granting clients the right to perform
+ dynamic updates to a zone, configured by the
+ <command>allow-update</command> and
+ <command>update-policy</command> option, respectively.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The <command>allow-update</command> clause is a simple
+ access control list. Any client that matches
+ the ACL is granted permission to update any record
+ in the zone.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The <command>update-policy</command> clause
+ allows more fine-grained control over what updates are
+ allowed. It specifies a set of rules, in which each rule
+ either grants or denies permission for one or more
+ names in the zone to be updated by one or more
+ identities. Identity is determined by the key that
+ signed the update request using either TSIG or SIG(0).
+ In most cases, <command>update-policy</command> rules
+ only apply to key-based identities. There is no way
+ to specify update permissions based on client source
+ address.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <command>update-policy</command> rules are only meaningful
+ for zones of type <command>master</command>, and are
+ not allowed in any other zone type.
+ It is a configuration error to specify both
+ <command>allow-update</command> and
+ <command>update-policy</command> at the same time.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ A pre-defined <command>update-policy</command> rule can be
+ switched on with the command
+ <command>update-policy local;</command>.
+ Using this in a zone causes
+ <command>named</command> to generate a TSIG session key
+ when starting up and store it in a file; this key can then
+ be used by local clients to update the zone while
+ <command>named</command> is running.
+ By default, the session key is stored in the file
+ <filename>/var/run/named/session.key</filename>, the key name
+ is "local-ddns", and the key algorithm is HMAC-SHA256.
+ These values are configurable with the
+ <command>session-keyfile</command>,
+ <command>session-keyname</command> and
+ <command>session-keyalg</command> options, respectively.
+ A client running on the local system, if run with appropriate
+ permissions, may read the session key from the key file and
+ use it to sign update requests. The zone's update
+ policy will be set to allow that key to change any record
+ within the zone. Assuming the key name is "local-ddns",
+ this policy is equivalent to:
+ </para>
+
+ <programlisting>update-policy { grant local-ddns zonesub any; };
+ </programlisting>
+
+ <para>
+ ...with the additional restriction that only clients
+ connecting from the local system will be permitted to send
+ updates.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Note that only one session key is generated by
+ <command>named</command>; all zones configured to use
+ <command>update-policy local</command> will accept the same key.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The command <command>nsupdate -l</command> implements this
+ feature, sending requests to localhost and signing them using
+ the key retrieved from the session key file.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Other rule definitions look like this:
+ </para>
+
+<programlisting>
+( <command>grant</command> | <command>deny</command> ) <replaceable>identity</replaceable> <replaceable>ruletype</replaceable> <optional> <replaceable>name</replaceable> </optional> <optional> <replaceable>types</replaceable> </optional>
+</programlisting>
+
+ <para>
+ Each rule grants or denies privileges. Rules are checked
+ in the order in which they are specified in the
+ <command>update-policy</command> statement. Once a message
+ has successfully matched a rule, the operation is immediately
+ granted or denied, and no further rules are examined. There
+ are 13 types of rules; the rule type is specified by the
+ <command>ruletype</command> field, and the interpretation
+ of other fields varies depending on the rule type.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ In general, a rule is matched when the
+ key that signed an update request matches the
+ <command>identity</command> field, the name of the record
+ to be updated matches the <command>name</command> field
+ (in the manner specified by the <command>ruletype</command>
+ field), and the type of the record to be updated matches the
+ <command>types</command> field. Details for each rule type
+ are described below.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The <command>identity</command> field must be set to
+ a fully-qualified domain name. In most cases, this
+ represensts the name of the TSIG or SIG(0) key that must be
+ used to sign the update request. If the specified name is a
+ wildcard, it is subject to DNS wildcard expansion, and the
+ rule may apply to multiple identities. When a TKEY exchange
+ has been used to create a shared secret, the identity of
+ the key used to authenticate the TKEY exchange will be
+ used as the identity of the shared secret. Some rule types
+ use identities matching the client's Kerberos principal
+ (e.g, <userinput>"host/machine@REALM"</userinput>) or
+ Windows realm (<userinput>machine$@REALM</userinput>).
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The <replaceable>name</replaceable> field also specifies
+ a fully-qualified domain name. This often
+ represents the name of the record to be updated.
+ Interpretation of this field is dependent on rule type.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ If no <command>types</command> are explicitly specified,
+ then a rule matches all types except RRSIG, NS, SOA, NSEC
+ and NSEC3. Types may be specified by name, including
+ "ANY" (ANY matches all types except NSEC and NSEC3,
+ which can never be updated). Note that when an attempt
+ is made to delete all records associated with a name,
+ the rules are checked for each existing record type.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The <replaceable>ruletype</replaceable> field has 16
+ values:
+ <varname>name</varname>, <varname>subdomain</varname>,
+ <varname>wildcard</varname>, <varname>self</varname>,
+ <varname>selfsub</varname>, <varname>selfwild</varname>,
+ <varname>krb5-self</varname>, <varname>ms-self</varname>,
+ <varname>krb5-selfsub</varname>, <varname>ms-selfsub</varname>,
+ <varname>krb5-subdomain</varname>,
+ <varname>ms-subdomain</varname>,
+ <varname>tcp-self</varname>, <varname>6to4-self</varname>,
+ <varname>zonesub</varname>, and <varname>external</varname>.
+ </para>
+ <informaltable>
+ <tgroup cols="2" colsep="0" rowsep="0" tgroupstyle="4Level-table">
+ <colspec colname="1" colnum="1" colsep="0" colwidth="0.819in"/>
+ <colspec colname="2" colnum="2" colsep="0" colwidth="3.681in"/>
+ <tbody>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ <varname>name</varname>
+ </para>
+ </entry> <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Exact-match semantics. This rule matches
+ when the name being updated is identical
+ to the contents of the
+ <replaceable>name</replaceable> field.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ <varname>subdomain</varname>
+ </para>
+ </entry> <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ This rule matches when the name being updated
+ is a subdomain of, or identical to, the
+ contents of the <replaceable>name</replaceable>
+ field.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ <varname>zonesub</varname>
+ </para>
+ </entry> <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ This rule is similar to subdomain, except that
+ it matches when the name being updated is a
+ subdomain of the zone in which the
+ <command>update-policy</command> statement
+ appears. This obviates the need to type the zone
+ name twice, and enables the use of a standard
+ <command>update-policy</command> statement in
+ multiple zones without modification.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ When this rule is used, the
+ <replaceable>name</replaceable> field is omitted.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ <varname>wildcard</varname>
+ </para>
+ </entry> <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ The <replaceable>name</replaceable> field
+ is subject to DNS wildcard expansion, and
+ this rule matches when the name being updated
+ is a valid expansion of the wildcard.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ <varname>self</varname>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ This rule matches when the name of the record
+ being updated matches the contents of the
+ <replaceable>identity</replaceable> field.
+ The <replaceable>name</replaceable> field
+ is ignored. To avoid confusion, it is recommended
+ that this field be set to the same value as the
+ <replaceable>identity</replaceable> field or to
+ "."
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The <varname>self</varname> rule type is
+ most useful when allowing one key per
+ name to update, where the key has the same
+ name as the record to be updated. In this case,
+ the <replaceable>identity</replaceable> field
+ can be specified as <constant>*</constant>
+ (an asterisk).
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ <varname>selfsub</varname>
+ </para>
+ </entry> <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ This rule is similar to <varname>self</varname>
+ except that subdomains of <varname>self</varname>
+ can also be updated.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ <varname>selfwild</varname>
+ </para>
+ </entry> <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ This rule is similar to <varname>self</varname>
+ except that only subdomains of
+ <varname>self</varname> can be updated.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ <varname>ms-self</varname>
+ </para>
+ </entry> <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ When a client sends an UPDATE using a Windows
+ machine principal (for example, 'machine$@REALM'),
+ this rule allows records with the absolute name
+ of 'machine.REALM' to be updated.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The realm to be matched is specified in the
+ <replaceable>identity</replaceable> field.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The <replaceable>name</replaceable> field has
+ no effect on this rule; it should be set to "."
+ as a placeholder.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ For example,
+ <userinput>grant EXAMPLE.COM ms-self . A AAAA</userinput>
+ allows any machine with a valid principal in
+ the realm <userinput>EXAMPLE.COM</userinput> to update
+ its own address records.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ <varname>ms-selfsub</varname>
+ </para>
+ </entry> <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ This is similar to <command>ms-self</command>
+ except it also allows updates to any subdomain of
+ the name specified in the Windows machine
+ principal, not just to the name itself.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ <varname>ms-subdomain</varname>
+ </para>
+ </entry> <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ When a client sends an UPDATE using a Windows
+ machine principal (for example, 'machine$@REALM'),
+ this rule allows any machine in the specified
+ realm to update any record in the zone or in a
+ specified subdomain of the zone.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The realm to be matched is specified in the
+ <replaceable>identity</replaceable> field.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The <replaceable>name</replaceable> field
+ specifies the subdomain that may be updated.
+ If set to "." (or any other name at or above
+ the zone apex), any name in the zone can be
+ updated.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ For example, if <command>update-policy</command>
+ for the zone "example.com" includes
+ <userinput>grant EXAMPLE.COM ms-subdomain hosts.example.com. A AAAA</userinput>,
+ any machine with a valid principal in
+ the realm <userinput>EXAMPLE.COM</userinput> will
+ be able to update address records at or below
+ "hosts.example.com".
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ <varname>krb5-self</varname>
+ </para>
+ </entry> <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ When a client sends an UPDATE using a
+ Kerberos machine principal (for example,
+ 'host/machine@REALM'), this rule allows
+ records with the absolute name of 'machine'
+ to be updated provided it has been authenticated
+ by REALM. This is similar but not identical
+ to <command>ms-self</command> due to the
+ 'machine' part of the Kerberos principal
+ being an absolute name instead of a unqualified
+ name.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The realm to be matched is specified in the
+ <replaceable>identity</replaceable> field.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The <replaceable>name</replaceable> field has
+ no effect on this rule; it should be set to "."
+ as a placeholder.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ For example,
+ <userinput>grant EXAMPLE.COM krb5-self . A AAAA</userinput>
+ allows any machine with a valid principal in
+ the realm <userinput>EXAMPLE.COM</userinput> to update
+ its own address records.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ <varname>krb5-selfsub</varname>
+ </para>
+ </entry> <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ This is similar to <command>krb5-self</command>
+ except it also allows updates to any subdomain of
+ the name specified in the 'machine' part of the
+ Kerberos principal, not just to the name itself.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ <varname>krb5-subdomain</varname>
+ </para>
+ </entry> <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ This rule is identical to
+ <command>ms-subdomain</command>, except that it works
+ with Kerberos machine principals (i.e.,
+ 'host/machine@REALM') rather than Windows machine
+ principals.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ <varname>tcp-self</varname>
+ </para>
+ </entry> <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ This rule allows updates that have been sent via
+ TCP and for which the standard mapping from the
+ client's IP address into the
+ <literal>in-addr.arpa</literal> and
+ <literal>ip6.arpa</literal>
+ namespaces match the name to be updated.
+ The <command>identity</command> field must match
+ that name. The <command>name</command> field
+ should be set to ".".
+ Note that, since identity is based on the client's
+ IP address, it is not necessary for update request
+ messages to be signed.
+ </para>
+ <note>
+ It is theoretically possible to spoof these TCP
+ sessions.
+ </note>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ <varname>6to4-self</varname>
+ </para>
+ </entry> <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ This allows the name matching a 6to4 IPv6 prefix,
+ as specified in RFC 3056, to be updated by any
+ TCP connection from either the 6to4 network or
+ from the corresponding IPv4 address. This is
+ intended to allow NS or DNAME RRsets to be added
+ to the <literal>ip6.arpa</literal> reverse tree.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The <command>identity</command> field must match
+ the 6to4 prefix in <literal>ip6.arpa</literal>.
+ The <command>name</command> field should
+ be set to ".".
+ Note that, since identity is based on the client's
+ IP address, it is not necessary for update request
+ messages to be signed.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ In addition, if specified for an
+ <literal>ip6.arpa</literal> name outside of the
+ <literal>2.0.0.2.ip6.arpa</literal> namespace,
+ the corresponding /48 reverse name can be updated.
+ For example, TCP/IPv6 connections
+ from 2001:DB8:ED0C::/48 can update records at
+ <literal>C.0.D.E.8.B.D.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa</literal>.
+ </para>
+ <note>
+ It is theoretically possible to spoof these TCP
+ sessions.
+ </note>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ <varname>external</varname>
+ </para>
+ </entry> <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ This rule allows <command>named</command>
+ to defer the decision of whether to allow a
+ given update to an external daemon.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The method of communicating with the daemon is
+ specified in the <replaceable>identity</replaceable>
+ field, the format of which is
+ "<constant>local:</constant><replaceable>path</replaceable>",
+ where <replaceable>path</replaceable> is the location
+ of a UNIX-domain socket. (Currently, "local" is the
+ only supported mechanism.)
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Requests to the external daemon are sent over the
+ UNIX-domain socket as datagrams with the following
+ format:
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>
+ Protocol version number (4 bytes, network byte order, currently 1)
+ Request length (4 bytes, network byte order)
+ Signer (null-terminated string)
+ Name (null-terminated string)
+ TCP source address (null-terminated string)
+ Rdata type (null-terminated string)
+ Key (null-terminated string)
+ TKEY token length (4 bytes, network byte order)
+ TKEY token (remainder of packet)</programlisting>
+ <para>
+ The daemon replies with a four-byte value in
+ network byte order, containing either 0 or 1; 0
+ indicates that the specified update is not
+ permitted, and 1 indicates that it is.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ </tbody>
+ </tgroup>
+ </informaltable>
+ </section>
+
+ <section xml:id="multiple_views"><info><title>Multiple views</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ When multiple views are in use, a zone may be
+ referenced by more than one of them. Often, the views
+ will contain different zones with the same name, allowing
+ different clients to receive different answers for the same
+ queries. At times, however, it is desirable for multiple
+ views to contain identical zones. The
+ <command>in-view</command> zone option provides an efficient
+ way to do this: it allows a view to reference a zone that
+ was defined in a previously configured view. Example:
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>
+view internal {
+ match-clients { 10/8; };
+
+ zone example.com {
+ type master;
+ file "example-external.db";
+ };
+};
+
+view external {
+ match-clients { any; };
+
+ zone example.com {
+ in-view internal;
+ };
+};
+ </programlisting>
+ <para>
+ An <command>in-view</command> option cannot refer to a view
+ that is configured later in the configuration file.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ A <command>zone</command> statement which uses the
+ <command>in-view</command> option may not use any other
+ options with the exception of <command>forward</command>
+ and <command>forwarders</command>. (These options control
+ the behavior of the containing view, rather than changing
+ the zone object itself.)
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Zone level acls (e.g. allow-query, allow-transfer) and
+ other configuration details of the zone are all set
+ in the view the referenced zone is defined in. Care
+ need to be taken to ensure that acls are wide enough
+ for all views referencing the zone.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ An <command>in-view</command> zone cannot be used as a
+ response policy zone.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ An <command>in-view</command> zone is not intended to reference
+ a <command>forward</command> zone.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ </section>
+ </section>
+ <section xml:id="zone_file"><info><title>Zone File</title></info>
+
+ <section xml:id="types_of_resource_records_and_when_to_use_them"><info><title>Types of Resource Records and When to Use Them</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ This section, largely borrowed from RFC 1034, describes the
+ concept of a Resource Record (RR) and explains when each is used.
+ Since the publication of RFC 1034, several new RRs have been
+ identified
+ and implemented in the DNS. These are also included.
+ </para>
+ <section><info><title>Resource Records</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ A domain name identifies a node. Each node has a set of
+ resource information, which may be empty. The set of resource
+ information associated with a particular name is composed of
+ separate RRs. The order of RRs in a set is not significant and
+ need not be preserved by name servers, resolvers, or other
+ parts of the DNS. However, sorting of multiple RRs is
+ permitted for optimization purposes, for example, to specify
+ that a particular nearby server be tried first. See <xref linkend="the_sortlist_statement"/> and <xref linkend="rrset_ordering"/>.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The components of a Resource Record are:
+ </para>
+ <informaltable colsep="0" rowsep="0">
+ <tgroup cols="2" colsep="0" rowsep="0" tgroupstyle="4Level-table">
+ <colspec colname="1" colnum="1" colsep="0" colwidth="1.000in"/>
+ <colspec colname="2" colnum="2" colsep="0" colwidth="3.500in"/>
+ <tbody>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ owner name
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ The domain name where the RR is found.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ type
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ An encoded 16-bit value that specifies
+ the type of the resource record.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ TTL
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ The time-to-live of the RR. This field
+ is a 32-bit integer in units of seconds, and is
+ primarily used by
+ resolvers when they cache RRs. The TTL describes how
+ long a RR can
+ be cached before it should be discarded.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ class
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ An encoded 16-bit value that identifies
+ a protocol family or instance of a protocol.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ RDATA
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ The resource data. The format of the
+ data is type (and sometimes class) specific.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ </tbody>
+ </tgroup>
+ </informaltable>
+ <para>
+ The following are <emphasis>types</emphasis> of valid RRs:
+ </para>
+ <informaltable colsep="0" rowsep="0">
+ <tgroup cols="2" colsep="0" rowsep="0" tgroupstyle="4Level-table">
+ <colspec colname="1" colnum="1" colsep="0" colwidth="0.875in"/>
+ <colspec colname="2" colnum="2" colsep="0" colwidth="3.625in"/>
+ <tbody>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ A
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ A host address. In the IN class, this is a
+ 32-bit IP address. Described in RFC 1035.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ AAAA
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ IPv6 address. Described in RFC 1886.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ A6
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ IPv6 address. This can be a partial
+ address (a suffix) and an indirection to the name
+ where the rest of the
+ address (the prefix) can be found. Experimental.
+ Described in RFC 2874.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ AFSDB
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Location of AFS database servers.
+ Experimental. Described in RFC 1183.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ APL
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Address prefix list. Experimental.
+ Described in RFC 3123.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ ATMA
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ ATM Address.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ AVC
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Application Visibility and Control record.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ CAA
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Identifies which Certificate Authorities can issue
+ certificates for this domain and what rules they
+ need to follow when doing so. Defined in RFC 6844.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ CDNSKEY
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Identifies which DNSKEY records should be published
+ as DS records in the parent zone.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ CDS
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Contains the set of DS records that should be published
+ by the parent zone.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ CERT
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Holds a digital certificate.
+ Described in RFC 2538.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ CNAME
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Identifies the canonical name of an alias.
+ Described in RFC 1035.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ CSYNC
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Child-to-Parent Synchronization in DNS as described
+ in RFC 7477.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ DHCID
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Is used for identifying which DHCP client is
+ associated with this name. Described in RFC 4701.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ DLV
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ A DNS Look-aside Validation record which contains
+ the records that are used as trust anchors for
+ zones in a DLV namespace. Described in RFC 4431.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ DNAME
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Replaces the domain name specified with
+ another name to be looked up, effectively aliasing an
+ entire
+ subtree of the domain name space rather than a single
+ record
+ as in the case of the CNAME RR.
+ Described in RFC 2672.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ DNSKEY
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Stores a public key associated with a signed
+ DNS zone. Described in RFC 4034.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ DOA
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Implements the Digital Object Architecture over
+ DNS. Experimental.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ DS
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Stores the hash of a public key associated with a
+ signed DNS zone. Described in RFC 4034.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ EID
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ End Point Identifier.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ EUI48
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ A 48-bit EUI address. Described in RFC 7043.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ EUI64
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ A 64-bit EUI address. Described in RFC 7043.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ GID
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Reserved.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ GPOS
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Specifies the global position. Superseded by LOC.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ HINFO
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Identifies the CPU and OS used by a host.
+ Described in RFC 1035.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ HIP
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Host Identity Protocol Address.
+ Described in RFC 5205.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ IPSECKEY
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Provides a method for storing IPsec keying material in
+ DNS. Described in RFC 4025.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ ISDN
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Representation of ISDN addresses.
+ Experimental. Described in RFC 1183.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ KEY
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Stores a public key associated with a
+ DNS name. Used in original DNSSEC; replaced
+ by DNSKEY in DNSSECbis, but still used with
+ SIG(0). Described in RFCs 2535 and 2931.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ KX
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Identifies a key exchanger for this
+ DNS name. Described in RFC 2230.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ L32
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Holds 32-bit Locator values for
+ Identifier-Locator Network Protocol. Described
+ in RFC 6742.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ L64
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Holds 64-bit Locator values for
+ Identifier-Locator Network Protocol. Described
+ in RFC 6742.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ LOC
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ For storing GPS info. Described in RFC 1876.
+ Experimental.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ LP
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Identifier-Locator Network Protocol.
+ Described in RFC 6742.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ MB
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Mail Box. Historical.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ MD
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Mail Destination. Historical.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ MF
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Mail Forwarder. Historical.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ MG
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Mail Group. Historical.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ MINFO
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Mail Information.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ MR
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Mail Rename. Historical.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ MX
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Identifies a mail exchange for the domain with
+ a 16-bit preference value (lower is better)
+ followed by the host name of the mail exchange.
+ Described in RFC 974, RFC 1035.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ NAPTR
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Name authority pointer. Described in RFC 2915.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ NID
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Holds values for Node Identifiers in
+ Identifier-Locator Network Protocol. Described
+ in RFC 6742.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ NINFO
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Contains zone status information.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ NIMLOC
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Nimrod Locator.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ NSAP
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ A network service access point.
+ Described in RFC 1706.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ NSAP-PTR
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Historical.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ NS
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ The authoritative name server for the
+ domain. Described in RFC 1035.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ NSEC
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Used in DNSSECbis to securely indicate that
+ RRs with an owner name in a certain name interval do
+ not exist in
+ a zone and indicate what RR types are present for an
+ existing name.
+ Described in RFC 4034.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ NSEC3
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Used in DNSSECbis to securely indicate that
+ RRs with an owner name in a certain name
+ interval do not exist in a zone and indicate
+ what RR types are present for an existing
+ name. NSEC3 differs from NSEC in that it
+ prevents zone enumeration but is more
+ computationally expensive on both the server
+ and the client than NSEC. Described in RFC
+ 5155.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ NSEC3PARAM
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Used in DNSSECbis to tell the authoritative
+ server which NSEC3 chains are available to use.
+ Described in RFC 5155.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ NULL
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ This is an opaque container.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ NXT
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Used in DNSSEC to securely indicate that
+ RRs with an owner name in a certain name interval do
+ not exist in
+ a zone and indicate what RR types are present for an
+ existing name.
+ Used in original DNSSEC; replaced by NSEC in
+ DNSSECbis.
+ Described in RFC 2535.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ OPENPGPKEY
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Used to hold an OPENPGPKEY.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ PTR
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ A pointer to another part of the domain
+ name space. Described in RFC 1035.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ PX
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Provides mappings between RFC 822 and X.400
+ addresses. Described in RFC 2163.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ RKEY
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Resource key.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ RP
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Information on persons responsible
+ for the domain. Experimental. Described in RFC 1183.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ RRSIG
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Contains DNSSECbis signature data. Described
+ in RFC 4034.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ RT
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Route-through binding for hosts that
+ do not have their own direct wide area network
+ addresses.
+ Experimental. Described in RFC 1183.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ SIG
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Contains DNSSEC signature data. Used in
+ original DNSSEC; replaced by RRSIG in
+ DNSSECbis, but still used for SIG(0).
+ Described in RFCs 2535 and 2931.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ SINK
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ The kitchen sink record.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ SMIMEA
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ The S/MIME Security Certificate Association.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ SOA
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Identifies the start of a zone of authority.
+ Described in RFC 1035.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ SPF
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Contains the Sender Policy Framework information
+ for a given email domain. Described in RFC 4408.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ SRV
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Information about well known network
+ services (replaces WKS). Described in RFC 2782.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ SSHFP
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Provides a way to securely publish a secure shell key's
+ fingerprint. Described in RFC 4255.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ TA
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Trust Anchor. Experimental.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ TALINK
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Trust Anchor Link. Experimental.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ TLSA
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Transport Layer Security Certificate Association.
+ Described in RFC 6698.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ TXT
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Text records. Described in RFC 1035.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ UID
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Reserved.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ UINFO
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Reserved.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ UNSPEC
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Reserved. Historical.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ URI
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Holds a URI. Described in RFC 7553.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ WKS
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Information about which well known
+ network services, such as SMTP, that a domain
+ supports. Historical.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ X25
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Representation of X.25 network addresses.
+ Experimental. Described in RFC 1183.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ </tbody>
+ </tgroup>
+ </informaltable>
+ <para>
+ The following <emphasis>classes</emphasis> of resource records
+ are currently valid in the DNS:
+ </para>
+ <informaltable colsep="0" rowsep="0"><tgroup cols="2" colsep="0" rowsep="0" tgroupstyle="4Level-table">
+ <colspec colname="1" colnum="1" colsep="0" colwidth="0.875in"/>
+ <colspec colname="2" colnum="2" colsep="0" colwidth="3.625in"/>
+ <tbody>
+
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ IN
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ The Internet.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ CH
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Chaosnet, a LAN protocol created at MIT in the
+ mid-1970s.
+ Rarely used for its historical purpose, but reused for
+ BIND's
+ built-in server information zones, e.g.,
+ <literal>version.bind</literal>.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ HS
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Hesiod, an information service
+ developed by MIT's Project Athena. It is used to share
+ information
+ about various systems databases, such as users,
+ groups, printers
+ and so on.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+
+ </tbody>
+ </tgroup>
+ </informaltable>
+
+ <para>
+ The owner name is often implicit, rather than forming an
+ integral
+ part of the RR. For example, many name servers internally form
+ tree
+ or hash structures for the name space, and chain RRs off nodes.
+ The remaining RR parts are the fixed header (type, class, TTL)
+ which is consistent for all RRs, and a variable part (RDATA)
+ that
+ fits the needs of the resource being described.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The meaning of the TTL field is a time limit on how long an
+ RR can be kept in a cache. This limit does not apply to
+ authoritative
+ data in zones; it is also timed out, but by the refreshing
+ policies
+ for the zone. The TTL is assigned by the administrator for the
+ zone where the data originates. While short TTLs can be used to
+ minimize caching, and a zero TTL prohibits caching, the
+ realities
+ of Internet performance suggest that these times should be on
+ the
+ order of days for the typical host. If a change can be
+ anticipated,
+ the TTL can be reduced prior to the change to minimize
+ inconsistency
+ during the change, and then increased back to its former value
+ following
+ the change.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The data in the RDATA section of RRs is carried as a combination
+ of binary strings and domain names. The domain names are
+ frequently
+ used as "pointers" to other data in the DNS.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+ <section xml:id="rr_text"><info><title>Textual expression of RRs</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ RRs are represented in binary form in the packets of the DNS
+ protocol, and are usually represented in highly encoded form
+ when
+ stored in a name server or resolver. In the examples provided
+ in
+ RFC 1034, a style similar to that used in master files was
+ employed
+ in order to show the contents of RRs. In this format, most RRs
+ are shown on a single line, although continuation lines are
+ possible
+ using parentheses.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The start of the line gives the owner of the RR. If a line
+ begins with a blank, then the owner is assumed to be the same as
+ that of the previous RR. Blank lines are often included for
+ readability.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Following the owner, we list the TTL, type, and class of the
+ RR. Class and type use the mnemonics defined above, and TTL is
+ an integer before the type field. In order to avoid ambiguity
+ in
+ parsing, type and class mnemonics are disjoint, TTLs are
+ integers,
+ and the type mnemonic is always last. The IN class and TTL
+ values
+ are often omitted from examples in the interests of clarity.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The resource data or RDATA section of the RR are given using
+ knowledge of the typical representation for the data.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ For example, we might show the RRs carried in a message as:
+ </para>
+ <informaltable colsep="0" rowsep="0"><tgroup cols="3" colsep="0" rowsep="0" tgroupstyle="4Level-table">
+ <colspec colname="1" colnum="1" colsep="0" colwidth="1.381in"/>
+ <colspec colname="2" colnum="2" colsep="0" colwidth="1.020in"/>
+ <colspec colname="3" colnum="3" colsep="0" colwidth="2.099in"/>
+ <tbody>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ <literal>ISI.EDU.</literal>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ <literal>MX</literal>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ <literal>10 VENERA.ISI.EDU.</literal>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para/>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ <literal>MX</literal>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ <literal>10 VAXA.ISI.EDU</literal>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ <literal>VENERA.ISI.EDU</literal>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ <literal>A</literal>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ <literal>128.9.0.32</literal>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para/>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ <literal>A</literal>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ <literal>10.1.0.52</literal>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ <literal>VAXA.ISI.EDU</literal>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ <literal>A</literal>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ <literal>10.2.0.27</literal>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para/>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ <literal>A</literal>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ <literal>128.9.0.33</literal>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ </tbody>
+ </tgroup>
+ </informaltable>
+ <para>
+ The MX RRs have an RDATA section which consists of a 16-bit
+ number followed by a domain name. The address RRs use a
+ standard
+ IP address format to contain a 32-bit internet address.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The above example shows six RRs, with two RRs at each of three
+ domain names.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Similarly we might see:
+ </para>
+ <informaltable colsep="0" rowsep="0"><tgroup cols="3" colsep="0" rowsep="0" tgroupstyle="4Level-table">
+ <colspec colname="1" colnum="1" colsep="0" colwidth="1.491in"/>
+ <colspec colname="2" colnum="2" colsep="0" colwidth="1.067in"/>
+ <colspec colname="3" colnum="3" colsep="0" colwidth="2.067in"/>
+ <tbody>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ <literal>XX.LCS.MIT.EDU.</literal>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ <literal>IN A</literal>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ <literal>10.0.0.44</literal>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1"/>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ <literal>CH A</literal>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ <literal>MIT.EDU. 2420</literal>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ </tbody>
+ </tgroup>
+ </informaltable>
+ <para>
+ This example shows two addresses for
+ <literal>XX.LCS.MIT.EDU</literal>, each of a different class.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+ </section>
+
+ <section xml:id="mx_records"><info><title>Discussion of MX Records</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ As described above, domain servers store information as a
+ series of resource records, each of which contains a particular
+ piece of information about a given domain name (which is usually,
+ but not always, a host). The simplest way to think of a RR is as
+ a typed pair of data, a domain name matched with a relevant datum,
+ and stored with some additional type information to help systems
+ determine when the RR is relevant.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ MX records are used to control delivery of email. The data
+ specified in the record is a priority and a domain name. The
+ priority
+ controls the order in which email delivery is attempted, with the
+ lowest number first. If two priorities are the same, a server is
+ chosen randomly. If no servers at a given priority are responding,
+ the mail transport agent will fall back to the next largest
+ priority.
+ Priority numbers do not have any absolute meaning — they are
+ relevant
+ only respective to other MX records for that domain name. The
+ domain
+ name given is the machine to which the mail will be delivered.
+ It <emphasis>must</emphasis> have an associated address record
+ (A or AAAA) — CNAME is not sufficient.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ For a given domain, if there is both a CNAME record and an
+ MX record, the MX record is in error, and will be ignored.
+ Instead,
+ the mail will be delivered to the server specified in the MX
+ record
+ pointed to by the CNAME.
+ For example:
+ </para>
+ <informaltable colsep="0" rowsep="0">
+ <tgroup cols="5" colsep="0" rowsep="0" tgroupstyle="3Level-table">
+ <colspec colname="1" colnum="1" colsep="0" colwidth="1.708in"/>
+ <colspec colname="2" colnum="2" colsep="0" colwidth="0.444in"/>
+ <colspec colname="3" colnum="3" colsep="0" colwidth="0.444in"/>
+ <colspec colname="4" colnum="4" colsep="0" colwidth="0.976in"/>
+ <colspec colname="5" colnum="5" colsep="0" colwidth="1.553in"/>
+ <tbody>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ <literal>example.com.</literal>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ <literal>IN</literal>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ <literal>MX</literal>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="4">
+ <para>
+ <literal>10</literal>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="5">
+ <para>
+ <literal>mail.example.com.</literal>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para/>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ <literal>IN</literal>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ <literal>MX</literal>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="4">
+ <para>
+ <literal>10</literal>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="5">
+ <para>
+ <literal>mail2.example.com.</literal>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para/>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ <literal>IN</literal>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ <literal>MX</literal>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="4">
+ <para>
+ <literal>20</literal>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="5">
+ <para>
+ <literal>mail.backup.org.</literal>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ <literal>mail.example.com.</literal>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ <literal>IN</literal>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ <literal>A</literal>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="4">
+ <para>
+ <literal>10.0.0.1</literal>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="5">
+ <para/>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ <literal>mail2.example.com.</literal>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ <literal>IN</literal>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ <literal>A</literal>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="4">
+ <para>
+ <literal>10.0.0.2</literal>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="5">
+ <para/>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ </tbody>
+ </tgroup>
+ </informaltable><para>
+ Mail delivery will be attempted to <literal>mail.example.com</literal> and
+ <literal>mail2.example.com</literal> (in
+ any order), and if neither of those succeed, delivery to <literal>mail.backup.org</literal> will
+ be attempted.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+ <section xml:id="Setting_TTLs"><info><title>Setting TTLs</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ The time-to-live of the RR field is a 32-bit integer represented
+ in units of seconds, and is primarily used by resolvers when they
+ cache RRs. The TTL describes how long a RR can be cached before it
+ should be discarded. The following three types of TTL are
+ currently
+ used in a zone file.
+ </para>
+ <informaltable colsep="0" rowsep="0">
+ <tgroup cols="2" colsep="0" rowsep="0" tgroupstyle="3Level-table">
+ <colspec colname="1" colnum="1" colsep="0" colwidth="0.750in"/>
+ <colspec colname="2" colnum="2" colsep="0" colwidth="4.375in"/>
+ <tbody>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ SOA
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ The last field in the SOA is the negative
+ caching TTL. This controls how long other servers will
+ cache no-such-domain
+ (NXDOMAIN) responses from you.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The maximum time for
+ negative caching is 3 hours (3h).
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ $TTL
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ The $TTL directive at the top of the
+ zone file (before the SOA) gives a default TTL for every
+ RR without
+ a specific TTL set.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ RR TTLs
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Each RR can have a TTL as the second
+ field in the RR, which will control how long other
+ servers can cache it.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ </tbody>
+ </tgroup>
+ </informaltable>
+ <para>
+ All of these TTLs default to units of seconds, though units
+ can be explicitly specified, for example, <literal>1h30m</literal>.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+ <section xml:id="ipv4_reverse"><info><title>Inverse Mapping in IPv4</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ Reverse name resolution (that is, translation from IP address
+ to name) is achieved by means of the <emphasis>in-addr.arpa</emphasis> domain
+ and PTR records. Entries in the in-addr.arpa domain are made in
+ least-to-most significant order, read left to right. This is the
+ opposite order to the way IP addresses are usually written. Thus,
+ a machine with an IP address of 10.1.2.3 would have a
+ corresponding
+ in-addr.arpa name of
+ 3.2.1.10.in-addr.arpa. This name should have a PTR resource record
+ whose data field is the name of the machine or, optionally,
+ multiple
+ PTR records if the machine has more than one name. For example,
+ in the <optional>example.com</optional> domain:
+ </para>
+ <informaltable colsep="0" rowsep="0">
+ <tgroup cols="2" colsep="0" rowsep="0" tgroupstyle="3Level-table">
+ <colspec colname="1" colnum="1" colsep="0" colwidth="1.125in"/>
+ <colspec colname="2" colnum="2" colsep="0" colwidth="4.000in"/>
+ <tbody>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ <literal>$ORIGIN</literal>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ <literal>2.1.10.in-addr.arpa</literal>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ <literal>3</literal>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ <literal>IN PTR foo.example.com.</literal>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ </tbody>
+ </tgroup>
+ </informaltable>
+ <note>
+ <para>
+ The <command>$ORIGIN</command> lines in the examples
+ are for providing context to the examples only — they do not
+ necessarily
+ appear in the actual usage. They are only used here to indicate
+ that the example is relative to the listed origin.
+ </para>
+ </note>
+ </section>
+ <section xml:id="zone_directives"><info><title>Other Zone File Directives</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ The Master File Format was initially defined in RFC 1035 and
+ has subsequently been extended. While the Master File Format
+ itself
+ is class independent all records in a Master File must be of the
+ same
+ class.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Master File Directives include <command>$ORIGIN</command>, <command>$INCLUDE</command>,
+ and <command>$TTL.</command>
+ </para>
+ <section xml:id="atsign"><info><title>The <command>@</command> (at-sign)</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ When used in the label (or name) field, the asperand or
+ at-sign (@) symbol represents the current origin.
+ At the start of the zone file, it is the
+ &lt;<varname>zone_name</varname>&gt; (followed by
+ trailing dot).
+ </para>
+ </section>
+ <section xml:id="origin_directive"><info><title>The <command>$ORIGIN</command> Directive</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ Syntax: <command>$ORIGIN</command>
+ <replaceable>domain-name</replaceable>
+ <optional><replaceable>comment</replaceable></optional>
+ </para>
+ <para><command>$ORIGIN</command>
+ sets the domain name that will be appended to any
+ unqualified records. When a zone is first read in there
+ is an implicit <command>$ORIGIN</command>
+ &lt;<varname>zone_name</varname>&gt;<command>.</command>
+ (followed by trailing dot).
+ The current <command>$ORIGIN</command> is appended to
+ the domain specified in the <command>$ORIGIN</command>
+ argument if it is not absolute.
+ </para>
+
+<programlisting>
+$ORIGIN example.com.
+WWW CNAME MAIN-SERVER
+</programlisting>
+
+ <para>
+ is equivalent to
+ </para>
+
+<programlisting>
+WWW.EXAMPLE.COM. CNAME MAIN-SERVER.EXAMPLE.COM.
+</programlisting>
+
+ </section>
+ <section xml:id="include_directive"><info><title>The <command>$INCLUDE</command> Directive</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ Syntax: <command>$INCLUDE</command>
+ <replaceable>filename</replaceable>
+ <optional>
+<replaceable>origin</replaceable> </optional>
+ <optional> <replaceable>comment</replaceable> </optional>
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Read and process the file <filename>filename</filename> as
+ if it were included into the file at this point. If <command>origin</command> is
+ specified the file is processed with <command>$ORIGIN</command> set
+ to that value, otherwise the current <command>$ORIGIN</command> is
+ used.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The origin and the current domain name
+ revert to the values they had prior to the <command>$INCLUDE</command> once
+ the file has been read.
+ </para>
+ <note>
+ <para>
+ RFC 1035 specifies that the current origin should be restored
+ after
+ an <command>$INCLUDE</command>, but it is silent
+ on whether the current
+ domain name should also be restored. BIND 9 restores both of
+ them.
+ This could be construed as a deviation from RFC 1035, a
+ feature, or both.
+ </para>
+ </note>
+ </section>
+ <section xml:id="ttl_directive"><info><title>The <command>$TTL</command> Directive</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ Syntax: <command>$TTL</command>
+ <replaceable>default-ttl</replaceable>
+ <optional>
+<replaceable>comment</replaceable> </optional>
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Set the default Time To Live (TTL) for subsequent records
+ with undefined TTLs. Valid TTLs are of the range 0-2147483647
+ seconds.
+ </para>
+ <para><command>$TTL</command>
+ is defined in RFC 2308.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+ </section>
+ <section xml:id="generate_directive"><info><title><acronym>BIND</acronym> Master File Extension: the <command>$GENERATE</command> Directive</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ Syntax: <command>$GENERATE</command>
+ <replaceable>range</replaceable>
+ <replaceable>lhs</replaceable>
+ <optional><replaceable>ttl</replaceable></optional>
+ <optional><replaceable>class</replaceable></optional>
+ <replaceable>type</replaceable>
+ <replaceable>rhs</replaceable>
+ <optional><replaceable>comment</replaceable></optional>
+ </para>
+ <para><command>$GENERATE</command>
+ is used to create a series of resource records that only
+ differ from each other by an
+ iterator. <command>$GENERATE</command> can be used to
+ easily generate the sets of records required to support
+ sub /24 reverse delegations described in RFC 2317:
+ Classless IN-ADDR.ARPA delegation.
+ </para>
+
+<programlisting>$ORIGIN 0.0.192.IN-ADDR.ARPA.
+$GENERATE 1-2 @ NS SERVER$.EXAMPLE.
+$GENERATE 1-127 $ CNAME $.0</programlisting>
+
+ <para>
+ is equivalent to
+ </para>
+
+<programlisting>0.0.0.192.IN-ADDR.ARPA. NS SERVER1.EXAMPLE.
+0.0.0.192.IN-ADDR.ARPA. NS SERVER2.EXAMPLE.
+1.0.0.192.IN-ADDR.ARPA. CNAME 1.0.0.0.192.IN-ADDR.ARPA.
+2.0.0.192.IN-ADDR.ARPA. CNAME 2.0.0.0.192.IN-ADDR.ARPA.
+...
+127.0.0.192.IN-ADDR.ARPA. CNAME 127.0.0.0.192.IN-ADDR.ARPA.
+</programlisting>
+
+ <para>
+ Generate a set of A and MX records. Note the MX's right hand
+ side is a quoted string. The quotes will be stripped when the
+ right hand side is processed.
+ </para>
+
+<programlisting>
+$ORIGIN EXAMPLE.
+$GENERATE 1-127 HOST-$ A 1.2.3.$
+$GENERATE 1-127 HOST-$ MX "0 ."</programlisting>
+
+ <para>
+ is equivalent to
+ </para>
+
+<programlisting>HOST-1.EXAMPLE. A 1.2.3.1
+HOST-1.EXAMPLE. MX 0 .
+HOST-2.EXAMPLE. A 1.2.3.2
+HOST-2.EXAMPLE. MX 0 .
+HOST-3.EXAMPLE. A 1.2.3.3
+HOST-3.EXAMPLE. MX 0 .
+...
+HOST-127.EXAMPLE. A 1.2.3.127
+HOST-127.EXAMPLE. MX 0 .
+</programlisting>
+
+ <informaltable colsep="0" rowsep="0">
+ <tgroup cols="2" colsep="0" rowsep="0" tgroupstyle="3Level-table">
+ <colspec colname="1" colnum="1" colsep="0" colwidth="0.875in"/>
+ <colspec colname="2" colnum="2" colsep="0" colwidth="4.250in"/>
+ <tbody>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>range</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ This can be one of two forms: start-stop
+ or start-stop/step. If the first form is used, then step
+ is set to 1. start, stop and step must be positive
+ integers between 0 and (2^31)-1. start must not be
+ larger than stop.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>lhs</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>This
+ describes the owner name of the resource records
+ to be created. Any single <command>$</command>
+ (dollar sign)
+ symbols within the <command>lhs</command> string
+ are replaced by the iterator value.
+
+ To get a $ in the output, you need to escape the
+ <command>$</command> using a backslash
+ <command>\</command>,
+ e.g. <command>\$</command>. The
+ <command>$</command> may optionally be followed
+ by modifiers which change the offset from the
+ iterator, field width and base.
+
+ Modifiers are introduced by a
+ <command>{</command> (left brace) immediately following the
+ <command>$</command> as
+ <command>${offset[,width[,base]]}</command>.
+ For example, <command>${-20,3,d}</command>
+ subtracts 20 from the current value, prints the
+ result as a decimal in a zero-padded field of
+ width 3.
+
+ Available output forms are decimal
+ (<command>d</command>), octal
+ (<command>o</command>), hexadecimal
+ (<command>x</command> or <command>X</command>
+ for uppercase) and nibble
+ (<command>n</command> or <command>N</command>\
+ for uppercase). The default modifier is
+ <command>${0,0,d}</command>. If the
+ <command>lhs</command> is not absolute, the
+ current <command>$ORIGIN</command> is appended
+ to the name.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ In nibble mode the value will be treated as
+ if it was a reversed hexadecimal string
+ with each hexadecimal digit as a separate
+ label. The width field includes the label
+ separator.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ For compatibility with earlier versions,
+ <command>$$</command> is still recognized as
+ indicating a literal $ in the output.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>ttl</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Specifies the time-to-live of the generated records. If
+ not specified this will be inherited using the
+ normal TTL inheritance rules.
+ </para>
+ <para><command>class</command>
+ and <command>ttl</command> can be
+ entered in either order.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>class</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Specifies the class of the generated records.
+ This must match the zone class if it is
+ specified.
+ </para>
+ <para><command>class</command>
+ and <command>ttl</command> can be
+ entered in either order.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>type</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Any valid type.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>rhs</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ <command>rhs</command>, optionally, quoted string.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ </tbody>
+ </tgroup>
+ </informaltable>
+ <para>
+ The <command>$GENERATE</command> directive is a <acronym>BIND</acronym> extension
+ and not part of the standard zone file format.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ BIND 8 did not support the optional TTL and CLASS fields.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section xml:id="zonefile_format"><info><title>Additional File Formats</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ In addition to the standard textual format, BIND 9
+ supports the ability to read or dump to zone files in
+ other formats.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The <constant>raw</constant> format is
+ a binary representation of zone data in a manner similar
+ to that used in zone transfers. Since it does not require
+ parsing text, load time is significantly reduced.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ An even faster alternative is the <constant>map</constant>
+ format, which is an image of a <acronym>BIND</acronym> 9
+ in-memory zone database; it is capable of being loaded
+ directly into memory via the <command>mmap()</command>
+ function; the zone can begin serving queries almost
+ immediately.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ For a primary server, a zone file in
+ <constant>raw</constant> or <constant>map</constant>
+ format is expected to be generated from a textual zone
+ file by the <command>named-compilezone</command> command.
+ For a secondary server or for a dynamic zone, it is automatically
+ generated (if this format is specified by the
+ <command>masterfile-format</command> option) when
+ <command>named</command> dumps the zone contents after
+ zone transfer or when applying prior updates.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ If a zone file in a binary format needs manual modification,
+ it first must be converted to a textual form by the
+ <command>named-compilezone</command> command. All
+ necessary modification should go to the text file, which
+ should then be converted to the binary form by the
+ <command>named-compilezone</command> command again.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Note that <command>map</command> format is extremely
+ architecture-specific. A <constant>map</constant>
+ file <emphasis>cannot</emphasis> be used on a system
+ with different pointer size, endianness or data alignment
+ than the system on which it was generated, and should in
+ general be used only inside a single system.
+ While <constant>raw</constant> format uses
+ network byte order and avoids architecture-dependent
+ data alignment so that it is as portable as
+ possible, it is also primarily expected to be used
+ inside the same single system. To export a
+ zone file in either <constant>raw</constant> or
+ <constant>map</constant> format, or make a
+ portable backup of such a file, conversion to
+ <constant>text</constant> format is recommended.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+ </section>
+
+ <section xml:id="statistics"><info><title>BIND9 Statistics</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ <acronym>BIND</acronym> 9 maintains lots of statistics
+ information and provides several interfaces for users to
+ get access to the statistics.
+ The available statistics include all statistics counters
+ that were available in <acronym>BIND</acronym> 8 and
+ are meaningful in <acronym>BIND</acronym> 9,
+ and other information that is considered useful.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The statistics information is categorized into the following
+ sections.
+ </para>
+
+ <informaltable frame="all">
+ <tgroup cols="2">
+ <colspec colname="1" colnum="1" colsep="0" colwidth="3.300in"/>
+ <colspec colname="2" colnum="2" colsep="0" colwidth="2.625in"/>
+ <tbody>
+
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>Incoming Requests</para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ The number of incoming DNS requests for each OPCODE.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>Incoming Queries</para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ The number of incoming queries for each RR type.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>Outgoing Queries</para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ The number of outgoing queries for each RR
+ type sent from the internal resolver.
+ Maintained per view.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>Name Server Statistics</para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Statistics counters about incoming request processing.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>Zone Maintenance Statistics</para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Statistics counters regarding zone maintenance
+ operations such as zone transfers.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>Resolver Statistics</para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Statistics counters about name resolution
+ performed in the internal resolver.
+ Maintained per view.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>Cache DB RRsets</para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ The number of RRsets per RR type and nonexistent
+ names stored in the cache database.
+ If the exclamation mark (!) is printed for a RR
+ type, it means that particular type of RRset is
+ known to be nonexistent (this is also known as
+ "NXRRSET"). If a hash mark (#) is present then
+ the RRset is marked for garbage collection.
+ Maintained per view.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>Socket I/O Statistics</para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Statistics counters about network related events.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+
+ </tbody>
+ </tgroup>
+ </informaltable>
+
+ <para>
+ A subset of Name Server Statistics is collected and shown
+ per zone for which the server has the authority when
+ <command>zone-statistics</command> is set to
+ <userinput>full</userinput> (or <userinput>yes</userinput>
+ for backward compatibility. See the description of
+ <command>zone-statistics</command> in <xref linkend="options"/>
+ for further details.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ These statistics counters are shown with their zone and
+ view names. The view name is omitted when the server is
+ not configured with explicit views.</para>
+
+ <para>
+ There are currently two user interfaces to get access to the
+ statistics.
+ One is in the plain text format dumped to the file specified
+ by the <command>statistics-file</command> configuration option.
+ The other is remotely accessible via a statistics channel
+ when the <command>statistics-channels</command> statement
+ is specified in the configuration file
+ (see <xref linkend="statschannels"/>.)
+ </para>
+
+ <section xml:id="statsfile"><info><title>The Statistics File</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ The text format statistics dump begins with a line, like:
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <command>+++ Statistics Dump +++ (973798949)</command>
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The number in parentheses is a standard
+ Unix-style timestamp, measured as seconds since January 1, 1970.
+
+ Following
+ that line is a set of statistics information, which is categorized
+ as described above.
+ Each section begins with a line, like:
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ <command>++ Name Server Statistics ++</command>
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Each section consists of lines, each containing the statistics
+ counter value followed by its textual description.
+ See below for available counters.
+ For brevity, counters that have a value of 0 are not shown
+ in the statistics file.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The statistics dump ends with the line where the
+ number is identical to the number in the beginning line; for example:
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <command>--- Statistics Dump --- (973798949)</command>
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section xml:id="statistics_counters"><info><title>Statistics Counters</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ The following tables summarize statistics counters that
+ <acronym>BIND</acronym> 9 provides.
+ For each row of the tables, the leftmost column is the
+ abbreviated symbol name of that counter.
+ These symbols are shown in the statistics information
+ accessed via an HTTP statistics channel.
+ The rightmost column gives the description of the counter,
+ which is also shown in the statistics file
+ (but, in this document, possibly with slight modification
+ for better readability).
+ Additional notes may also be provided in this column.
+ When a middle column exists between these two columns,
+ it gives the corresponding counter name of the
+ <acronym>BIND</acronym> 8 statistics, if applicable.
+ </para>
+
+ <section xml:id="stats_counters"><info><title>Name Server Statistics Counters</title></info>
+
+ <informaltable colsep="0" rowsep="0">
+ <tgroup cols="3" colsep="0" rowsep="0" tgroupstyle="4Level-table">
+ <colspec colname="1" colnum="1" colsep="0" colwidth="1.150in"/>
+ <colspec colname="2" colnum="2" colsep="0" colwidth="1.150in"/>
+ <colspec colname="3" colnum="3" colsep="0" colwidth="3.350in"/>
+ <tbody>
+ <row>
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ <emphasis>Symbol</emphasis>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ <emphasis>BIND8 Symbol</emphasis>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ <emphasis>Description</emphasis>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>Requestv4</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para><command>RQ</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ IPv4 requests received.
+ Note: this also counts non query requests.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>Requestv6</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para><command>RQ</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ IPv6 requests received.
+ Note: this also counts non query requests.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>ReqEdns0</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para><command/></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ Requests with EDNS(0) received.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>ReqBadEDNSVer</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para><command/></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ Requests with unsupported EDNS version received.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>ReqTSIG</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para><command/></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ Requests with TSIG received.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>ReqSIG0</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para><command/></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ Requests with SIG(0) received.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>ReqBadSIG</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para><command/></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ Requests with invalid (TSIG or SIG(0)) signature.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>ReqTCP</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para><command>RTCP</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ TCP requests received.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>AuthQryRej</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para><command>RUQ</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ Authoritative (non recursive) queries rejected.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>RecQryRej</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para><command>RURQ</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ Recursive queries rejected.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>XfrRej</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para><command>RUXFR</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ Zone transfer requests rejected.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>UpdateRej</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para><command>RUUpd</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ Dynamic update requests rejected.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>Response</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para><command>SAns</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ Responses sent.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>RespTruncated</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para><command/></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ Truncated responses sent.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>RespEDNS0</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para><command/></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ Responses with EDNS(0) sent.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>RespTSIG</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para><command/></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ Responses with TSIG sent.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>RespSIG0</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para><command/></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ Responses with SIG(0) sent.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>QrySuccess</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para><command/></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ Queries resulted in a successful answer.
+ This means the query which returns a NOERROR response
+ with at least one answer RR.
+ This corresponds to the
+ <command>success</command> counter
+ of previous versions of
+ <acronym>BIND</acronym> 9.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>QryAuthAns</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para><command/></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ Queries resulted in authoritative answer.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>QryNoauthAns</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para><command>SNaAns</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ Queries resulted in non authoritative answer.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>QryReferral</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para><command/></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ Queries resulted in referral answer.
+ This corresponds to the
+ <command>referral</command> counter
+ of previous versions of
+ <acronym>BIND</acronym> 9.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>QryNxrrset</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para><command/></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ Queries resulted in NOERROR responses with no data.
+ This corresponds to the
+ <command>nxrrset</command> counter
+ of previous versions of
+ <acronym>BIND</acronym> 9.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>QrySERVFAIL</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para><command>SFail</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ Queries resulted in SERVFAIL.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>QryFORMERR</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para><command>SFErr</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ Queries resulted in FORMERR.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>QryNXDOMAIN</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para><command>SNXD</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ Queries resulted in NXDOMAIN.
+ This corresponds to the
+ <command>nxdomain</command> counter
+ of previous versions of
+ <acronym>BIND</acronym> 9.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>QryRecursion</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para><command>RFwdQ</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ Queries which caused the server
+ to perform recursion in order to find the final answer.
+ This corresponds to the
+ <command>recursion</command> counter
+ of previous versions of
+ <acronym>BIND</acronym> 9.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>QryDuplicate</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para><command>RDupQ</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ Queries which the server attempted to
+ recurse but discovered an existing query with the same
+ IP address, port, query ID, name, type and class
+ already being processed.
+ This corresponds to the
+ <command>duplicate</command> counter
+ of previous versions of
+ <acronym>BIND</acronym> 9.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>QryDropped</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para><command/></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ Recursive queries for which the server
+ discovered an excessive number of existing
+ recursive queries for the same name, type and
+ class and were subsequently dropped.
+ This is the number of dropped queries due to
+ the reason explained with the
+ <command>clients-per-query</command>
+ and
+ <command>max-clients-per-query</command>
+ options
+ (see the description about
+ <xref endterm="cpq_term" linkend="clients-per-query"/>.)
+ This corresponds to the
+ <command>dropped</command> counter
+ of previous versions of
+ <acronym>BIND</acronym> 9.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>QryFailure</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para><command/></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ Other query failures.
+ This corresponds to the
+ <command>failure</command> counter
+ of previous versions of
+ <acronym>BIND</acronym> 9.
+ Note: this counter is provided mainly for
+ backward compatibility with the previous versions.
+ Normally a more fine-grained counters such as
+ <command>AuthQryRej</command> and
+ <command>RecQryRej</command>
+ that would also fall into this counter are provided,
+ and so this counter would not be of much
+ interest in practice.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>QryNXRedir</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para><command/></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ Queries resulted in NXDOMAIN that were redirected.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>QryNXRedirRLookup</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para><command/></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ Queries resulted in NXDOMAIN that were redirected
+ and resulted in a successful remote lookup.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>XfrReqDone</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para><command/></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ Requested zone transfers completed.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>UpdateReqFwd</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para><command/></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ Update requests forwarded.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>UpdateRespFwd</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para><command/></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ Update responses forwarded.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>UpdateFwdFail</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para><command/></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ Dynamic update forward failed.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>UpdateDone</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para><command/></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ Dynamic updates completed.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>UpdateFail</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para><command/></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ Dynamic updates failed.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>UpdateBadPrereq</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para><command/></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ Dynamic updates rejected due to prerequisite failure.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>RateDropped</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para><command/></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ Responses dropped by rate limits.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>RateSlipped</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para><command/></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ Responses truncated by rate limits.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>RPZRewrites</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para><command/></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ Response policy zone rewrites.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ </tbody>
+ </tgroup>
+ </informaltable>
+ </section>
+
+ <section xml:id="zone_stats"><info><title>Zone Maintenance Statistics Counters</title></info>
+
+ <informaltable colsep="0" rowsep="0">
+ <tgroup cols="2" colsep="0" rowsep="0" tgroupstyle="4Level-table">
+ <colspec colname="1" colnum="1" colsep="0" colwidth="1.150in"/>
+ <colspec colname="2" colnum="2" colsep="0" colwidth="3.350in"/>
+ <tbody>
+ <row>
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ <emphasis>Symbol</emphasis>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ <emphasis>Description</emphasis>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>NotifyOutv4</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ IPv4 notifies sent.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>NotifyOutv6</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ IPv6 notifies sent.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>NotifyInv4</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ IPv4 notifies received.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>NotifyInv6</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ IPv6 notifies received.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>NotifyRej</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Incoming notifies rejected.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>SOAOutv4</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ IPv4 SOA queries sent.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>SOAOutv6</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ IPv6 SOA queries sent.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>AXFRReqv4</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ IPv4 AXFR requested.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>AXFRReqv6</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ IPv6 AXFR requested.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>IXFRReqv4</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ IPv4 IXFR requested.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>IXFRReqv6</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ IPv6 IXFR requested.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>XfrSuccess</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Zone transfer requests succeeded.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>XfrFail</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Zone transfer requests failed.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ </tbody>
+ </tgroup>
+ </informaltable>
+ </section>
+
+ <section xml:id="resolver_stats"><info><title>Resolver Statistics Counters</title></info>
+
+ <informaltable colsep="0" rowsep="0">
+ <tgroup cols="3" colsep="0" rowsep="0" tgroupstyle="4Level-table">
+ <colspec colname="1" colnum="1" colsep="0" colwidth="1.150in"/>
+ <colspec colname="2" colnum="2" colsep="0" colwidth="1.150in"/>
+ <colspec colname="3" colnum="3" colsep="0" colwidth="3.350in"/>
+ <tbody>
+ <row>
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ <emphasis>Symbol</emphasis>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ <emphasis>BIND8 Symbol</emphasis>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ <emphasis>Description</emphasis>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>Queryv4</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para><command>SFwdQ</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ IPv4 queries sent.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>Queryv6</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para><command>SFwdQ</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ IPv6 queries sent.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>Responsev4</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para><command>RR</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ IPv4 responses received.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>Responsev6</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para><command>RR</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ IPv6 responses received.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>NXDOMAIN</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para><command>RNXD</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ NXDOMAIN received.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>SERVFAIL</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para><command>RFail</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ SERVFAIL received.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>FORMERR</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para><command>RFErr</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ FORMERR received.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>OtherError</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para><command>RErr</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ Other errors received.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>EDNS0Fail</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para><command/></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ EDNS(0) query failures.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>Mismatch</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para><command>RDupR</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ Mismatch responses received.
+ The DNS ID, response's source address,
+ and/or the response's source port does not
+ match what was expected.
+ (The port must be 53 or as defined by
+ the <command>port</command> option.)
+ This may be an indication of a cache
+ poisoning attempt.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>Truncated</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para><command/></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ Truncated responses received.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>Lame</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para><command>RLame</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ Lame delegations received.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>Retry</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para><command>SDupQ</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ Query retries performed.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>QueryAbort</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para><command/></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ Queries aborted due to quota control.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>QuerySockFail</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para><command/></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ Failures in opening query sockets.
+ One common reason for such failures is a
+ failure of opening a new socket due to a
+ limitation on file descriptors.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>QueryTimeout</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para><command/></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ Query timeouts.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>GlueFetchv4</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para><command>SSysQ</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ IPv4 NS address fetches invoked.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>GlueFetchv6</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para><command>SSysQ</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ IPv6 NS address fetches invoked.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>GlueFetchv4Fail</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para><command/></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ IPv4 NS address fetch failed.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>GlueFetchv6Fail</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para><command/></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ IPv6 NS address fetch failed.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>ValAttempt</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para><command/></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ DNSSEC validation attempted.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>ValOk</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para><command/></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ DNSSEC validation succeeded.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>ValNegOk</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para><command/></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ DNSSEC validation on negative information succeeded.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>ValFail</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para><command/></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ DNSSEC validation failed.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>QryRTTnn</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para><command/></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="3">
+ <para>
+ Frequency table on round trip times (RTTs) of
+ queries.
+ Each <command>nn</command> specifies the corresponding
+ frequency.
+ In the sequence of
+ <command>nn_1</command>,
+ <command>nn_2</command>,
+ ...,
+ <command>nn_m</command>,
+ the value of <command>nn_i</command> is the
+ number of queries whose RTTs are between
+ <command>nn_(i-1)</command> (inclusive) and
+ <command>nn_i</command> (exclusive) milliseconds.
+ For the sake of convenience we define
+ <command>nn_0</command> to be 0.
+ The last entry should be represented as
+ <command>nn_m+</command>, which means the
+ number of queries whose RTTs are equal to or over
+ <command>nn_m</command> milliseconds.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ </tbody>
+ </tgroup>
+ </informaltable>
+
+ </section>
+
+ <section xml:id="socket_stats"><info><title>Socket I/O Statistics Counters</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ Socket I/O statistics counters are defined per socket
+ types, which are
+ <command>UDP4</command> (UDP/IPv4),
+ <command>UDP6</command> (UDP/IPv6),
+ <command>TCP4</command> (TCP/IPv4),
+ <command>TCP6</command> (TCP/IPv6),
+ <command>Unix</command> (Unix Domain), and
+ <command>FDwatch</command> (sockets opened outside the
+ socket module).
+ In the following table <command>&lt;TYPE&gt;</command>
+ represents a socket type.
+ Not all counters are available for all socket types;
+ exceptions are noted in the description field.
+ </para>
+
+ <informaltable colsep="0" rowsep="0">
+ <tgroup cols="2" colsep="0" rowsep="0" tgroupstyle="4Level-table">
+ <colspec colname="1" colnum="1" colsep="0" colwidth="1.150in"/>
+ <colspec colname="2" colnum="2" colsep="0" colwidth="3.350in"/>
+ <tbody>
+ <row>
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para>
+ <emphasis>Symbol</emphasis>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ <emphasis>Description</emphasis>
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>&lt;TYPE&gt;Open</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Sockets opened successfully.
+ This counter is not applicable to the
+ <command>FDwatch</command> type.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>&lt;TYPE&gt;OpenFail</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Failures of opening sockets.
+ This counter is not applicable to the
+ <command>FDwatch</command> type.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>&lt;TYPE&gt;Close</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Sockets closed.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>&lt;TYPE&gt;BindFail</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Failures of binding sockets.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>&lt;TYPE&gt;ConnFail</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Failures of connecting sockets.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>&lt;TYPE&gt;Conn</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Connections established successfully.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>&lt;TYPE&gt;AcceptFail</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Failures of accepting incoming connection requests.
+ This counter is not applicable to the
+ <command>UDP</command> and
+ <command>FDwatch</command> types.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>&lt;TYPE&gt;Accept</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Incoming connections successfully accepted.
+ This counter is not applicable to the
+ <command>UDP</command> and
+ <command>FDwatch</command> types.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>&lt;TYPE&gt;SendErr</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Errors in socket send operations.
+ This counter corresponds
+ to <command>SErr</command> counter of
+ <command>BIND</command> 8.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row rowsep="0">
+ <entry colname="1">
+ <para><command>&lt;TYPE&gt;RecvErr</command></para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="2">
+ <para>
+ Errors in socket receive operations.
+ This includes errors of send operations on a
+ connected UDP socket notified by an ICMP error
+ message.
+ </para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ </tbody>
+ </tgroup>
+ </informaltable>
+ </section>
+
+ <section xml:id="bind8_compatibility"><info><title>Compatibility with <emphasis>BIND</emphasis> 8 Counters</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ Most statistics counters that were available
+ in <command>BIND</command> 8 are also supported in
+ <command>BIND</command> 9 as shown in the above tables.
+ Here are notes about other counters that do not appear
+ in these tables.
+ </para>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>RFwdR,SFwdR</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ These counters are not supported
+ because <command>BIND</command> 9 does not adopt
+ the notion of <emphasis>forwarding</emphasis>
+ as <command>BIND</command> 8 did.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>RAXFR</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ This counter is accessible in the Incoming Queries section.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>RIQ</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ This counter is accessible in the Incoming Requests section.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>ROpts</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ This counter is not supported
+ because <command>BIND</command> 9 does not care
+ about IP options in the first place.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+ </section>
+ </section>
+ </section>
+
+ </chapter>
+ <chapter xml:id="Bv9ARM.ch07"><info><title><acronym>BIND</acronym> 9 Security Considerations</title></info>
+
+ <section xml:id="Access_Control_Lists"><info><title>Access Control Lists</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ Access Control Lists (ACLs) are address match lists that
+ you can set up and nickname for future use in
+ <command>allow-notify</command>, <command>allow-query</command>,
+ <command>allow-query-on</command>, <command>allow-recursion</command>,
+ <command>blackhole</command>, <command>allow-transfer</command>,
+ <command>match-clients</command>, etc.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Using ACLs allows you to have finer control over who can access
+ your name server, without cluttering up your config files with huge
+ lists of IP addresses.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ It is a <emphasis>good idea</emphasis> to use ACLs, and to
+ control access to your server. Limiting access to your server by
+ outside parties can help prevent spoofing and denial of service
+ (DoS) attacks against your server.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ ACLs match clients on the basis of up to three characteristics:
+ 1) The client's IP address; 2) the TSIG or SIG(0) key that was
+ used to sign the request, if any; and 3) an address prefix
+ encoded in an EDNS Client Subnet option, if any.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Here is an example of ACLs based on client addresses:
+ </para>
+
+<programlisting>
+// Set up an ACL named "bogusnets" that will block
+// RFC1918 space and some reserved space, which is
+// commonly used in spoofing attacks.
+acl bogusnets {
+ 0.0.0.0/8; 192.0.2.0/24; 224.0.0.0/3;
+ 10.0.0.0/8; 172.16.0.0/12; 192.168.0.0/16;
+};
+
+// Set up an ACL called our-nets. Replace this with the
+// real IP numbers.
+acl our-nets { x.x.x.x/24; x.x.x.x/21; };
+options {
+ ...
+ ...
+ allow-query { our-nets; };
+ allow-recursion { our-nets; };
+ ...
+ blackhole { bogusnets; };
+ ...
+};
+
+zone "example.com" {
+ type master;
+ file "m/example.com";
+ allow-query { any; };
+};
+</programlisting>
+
+ <para>
+ This allows authoritative queries for "example.com" from any
+ address, but recursive queries only from the networks specified
+ in "our-nets", and no queries at all from the networks
+ specified in "bogusnets".
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ In addition to network addresses and prefixes, which are
+ matched against the source address of the DNS request, ACLs
+ may include <option>key</option> elements, which specify the
+ name of a TSIG or SIG(0) key, or <option>ecs</option>
+ elements, which specify a network prefix but are only matched
+ if that prefix matches an EDNS client subnet option included
+ in the request.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The EDNS Client Subnet (ECS) option is used by a recursive
+ resolver to inform an authoritative name server of the network
+ address block from which the original query was received, enabling
+ authoritative servers to give different answers to the same
+ resolver for different resolver clients. An ACL containing
+ an element of the form
+ <command>ecs <replaceable>prefix</replaceable></command>
+ will match if a request arrives in containing an ECS option
+ encoding an address within that prefix. If the request has no
+ ECS option, then "ecs" elements are simply ignored. Addresses
+ in ACLs that are not prefixed with "ecs" are matched only
+ against the source address.
+ </para>
+ <note>
+ <simpara>
+ (Note: The authoritative ECS implementation in
+ <command>named</command> is based on an early version of the
+ specification, and is known to have incompatibilities with
+ other implementations. It is also inefficient, requiring
+ a separate view for each client subnet to be sent different
+ answers, and it is unable to correct for overlapping subnets in
+ the configuration. It can be used for testing purposes, but is
+ not recommended for production use.)
+ </simpara>
+ </note>
+ <para>
+ When <acronym>BIND</acronym> 9 is built with GeoIP support,
+ ACLs can also be used for geographic access restrictions.
+ This is done by specifying an ACL element of the form:
+ <command>geoip <optional>db <replaceable>database</replaceable></optional> <replaceable>field</replaceable> <replaceable>value</replaceable></command>
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The <replaceable>field</replaceable> indicates which field
+ to search for a match. Available fields are "country",
+ "region", "city", "continent", "postal" (postal code),
+ "metro" (metro code), "area" (area code), "tz" (timezone),
+ "isp", "org", "asnum", "domain" and "netspeed".
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <replaceable>value</replaceable> is the value to search
+ for within the database. A string may be quoted if it
+ contains spaces or other special characters. If this is
+ an "asnum" search, then the leading "ASNNNN" string can be
+ used, otherwise the full description must be used (e.g.
+ "ASNNNN Example Company Name"). If this is a "country"
+ search and the string is two characters long, then it must
+ be a standard ISO-3166-1 two-letter country code, and if it
+ is three characters long then it must be an ISO-3166-1
+ three-letter country code; otherwise it is the full name
+ of the country. Similarly, if this is a "region" search
+ and the string is two characters long, then it must be a
+ standard two-letter state or province abbreviation;
+ otherwise it is the full name of the state or province.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The <replaceable>database</replaceable> field indicates which
+ GeoIP database to search for a match. In most cases this is
+ unnecessary, because most search fields can only be found in
+ a single database. However, searches for country can be
+ answered from the "city", "region", or "country" databases,
+ and searches for region (i.e., state or province) can be
+ answered from the "city" or "region" databases. For these
+ search types, specifying a <replaceable>database</replaceable>
+ will force the query to be answered from that database and no
+ other. If <replaceable>database</replaceable> is not
+ specified, then these queries will be answered from the "city",
+ database if it is installed, or the "region" database if it is
+ installed, or the "country" database, in that order.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ By default, if a DNS query includes an EDNS Client Subnet (ECS)
+ option which encodes a non-zero address prefix, then GeoIP ACLs
+ will be matched against that address prefix. Otherwise, they
+ are matched against the source address of the query. To
+ prevent GeoIP ACLs from matching against ECS options, set
+ the <command>geoip-use-ecs</command> to <literal>no</literal>.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Some example GeoIP ACLs:
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>geoip country US;
+geoip country JAP;
+geoip db country country Canada;
+geoip db region region WA;
+geoip city "San Francisco";
+geoip region Oklahoma;
+geoip postal 95062;
+geoip tz "America/Los_Angeles";
+geoip org "Internet Systems Consortium";
+</programlisting>
+
+ <para>
+ ACLs use a "first-match" logic rather than "best-match":
+ if an address prefix matches an ACL element, then that ACL
+ is considered to have matched even if a later element would
+ have matched more specifically. For example, the ACL
+ <command> { 10/8; !10.0.0.1; }</command> would actually
+ match a query from 10.0.0.1, because the first element
+ indicated that the query should be accepted, and the second
+ element is ignored.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ When using "nested" ACLs (that is, ACLs included or referenced
+ within other ACLs), a negative match of a nested ACL will
+ the containing ACL to continue looking for matches. This
+ enables complex ACLs to be constructed, in which multiple
+ client characteristics can be checked at the same time. For
+ example, to construct an ACL which allows queries only when
+ it originates from a particular network <emphasis>and</emphasis>
+ only when it is signed with a particular key, use:
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>
+allow-query { !{ !10/8; any; }; key example; };
+</programlisting>
+ <para>
+ Within the nested ACL, any address that is
+ <emphasis>not</emphasis> in the 10/8 network prefix will
+ be rejected, and this will terminate processing of the
+ ACL. Any address that <emphasis>is</emphasis> in the 10/8
+ network prefix will be accepted, but this causes a negative
+ match of the nested ACL, so the containing ACL continues
+ processing. The query will then be accepted if it is signed
+ by the key "example", and rejected otherwise. The ACL, then,
+ will only matches when <emphasis>both</emphasis> conditions
+ are true.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section xml:id="chroot_and_setuid"><info><title><command>Chroot</command> and <command>Setuid</command></title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ On UNIX servers, it is possible to run <acronym>BIND</acronym>
+ in a <emphasis>chrooted</emphasis> environment (using
+ the <command>chroot()</command> function) by specifying
+ the <option>-t</option> option for <command>named</command>.
+ This can help improve system security by placing
+ <acronym>BIND</acronym> in a "sandbox", which will limit
+ the damage done if a server is compromised.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Another useful feature in the UNIX version of <acronym>BIND</acronym> is the
+ ability to run the daemon as an unprivileged user ( <option>-u</option> <replaceable>user</replaceable> ).
+ We suggest running as an unprivileged user when using the <command>chroot</command> feature.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Here is an example command line to load <acronym>BIND</acronym> in a <command>chroot</command> sandbox,
+ <command>/var/named</command>, and to run <command>named</command> <command>setuid</command> to
+ user 202:
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <userinput>/usr/local/sbin/named -u 202 -t /var/named</userinput>
+ </para>
+
+ <section xml:id="chroot"><info><title>The <command>chroot</command> Environment</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ In order for a <command>chroot</command> environment
+ to work properly in a particular directory (for example,
+ <filename>/var/named</filename>), you will need to set
+ up an environment that includes everything
+ <acronym>BIND</acronym> needs to run. From
+ <acronym>BIND</acronym>'s point of view,
+ <filename>/var/named</filename> is the root of the
+ filesystem. You will need to adjust the values of
+ options like <command>directory</command> and
+ <command>pid-file</command> to account for this.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Unlike with earlier versions of BIND, you typically will
+ <emphasis>not</emphasis> need to compile <command>named</command>
+ statically nor install shared libraries under the new root.
+ However, depending on your operating system, you may need
+ to set up things like
+ <filename>/dev/zero</filename>,
+ <filename>/dev/random</filename>,
+ <filename>/dev/log</filename>, and
+ <filename>/etc/localtime</filename>.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section xml:id="setuid"><info><title>Using the <command>setuid</command> Function</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ Prior to running the <command>named</command> daemon,
+ use
+ the <command>touch</command> utility (to change file
+ access and
+ modification times) or the <command>chown</command>
+ utility (to
+ set the user id and/or group id) on files
+ to which you want <acronym>BIND</acronym>
+ to write.
+ </para>
+ <note><simpara>
+ If the <command>named</command> daemon is running as an
+ unprivileged user, it will not be able to bind to new restricted
+ ports if the server is reloaded.
+ </simpara></note>
+ </section>
+ </section>
+
+ <section xml:id="dynamic_update_security"><info><title>Dynamic Update Security</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ Access to the dynamic
+ update facility should be strictly limited. In earlier versions of
+ <acronym>BIND</acronym>, the only way to do this was
+ based on the IP
+ address of the host requesting the update, by listing an IP address
+ or
+ network prefix in the <command>allow-update</command>
+ zone option.
+ This method is insecure since the source address of the update UDP
+ packet
+ is easily forged. Also note that if the IP addresses allowed by the
+ <command>allow-update</command> option include the
+ address of a slave
+ server which performs forwarding of dynamic updates, the master can
+ be
+ trivially attacked by sending the update to the slave, which will
+ forward it to the master with its own source IP address causing the
+ master to approve it without question.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ For these reasons, we strongly recommend that updates be
+ cryptographically authenticated by means of transaction signatures
+ (TSIG). That is, the <command>allow-update</command>
+ option should
+ list only TSIG key names, not IP addresses or network
+ prefixes. Alternatively, the new <command>update-policy</command>
+ option can be used.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Some sites choose to keep all dynamically-updated DNS data
+ in a subdomain and delegate that subdomain to a separate zone. This
+ way, the top-level zone containing critical data such as the IP
+ addresses
+ of public web and mail servers need not allow dynamic update at
+ all.
+ </para>
+
+ </section>
+ </chapter>
+
+ <chapter xml:id="Bv9ARM.ch08"><info><title>Troubleshooting</title></info>
+
+ <section xml:id="common_problems"><info><title>Common Problems</title></info>
+
+ <section><info><title>It's not working; how can I figure out what's wrong?</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ The best solution to solving installation and
+ configuration issues is to take preventative measures by setting
+ up logging files beforehand. The log files provide a
+ source of hints and information that can be used to figure out
+ what went wrong and how to fix the problem.
+ </para>
+
+ </section>
+ </section>
+ <section><info><title>Incrementing and Changing the Serial Number</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ Zone serial numbers are just numbers — they aren't
+ date related. A lot of people set them to a number that
+ represents a date, usually of the form YYYYMMDDRR.
+ Occasionally they will make a mistake and set them to a
+ "date in the future" then try to correct them by setting
+ them to the "current date". This causes problems because
+ serial numbers are used to indicate that a zone has been
+ updated. If the serial number on the slave server is
+ lower than the serial number on the master, the slave
+ server will attempt to update its copy of the zone.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Setting the serial number to a lower number on the master
+ server than the slave server means that the slave will not perform
+ updates to its copy of the zone.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The solution to this is to add 2147483647 (2^31-1) to the
+ number, reload the zone and make sure all slaves have updated to
+ the new zone serial number, then reset the number to what you want
+ it to be, and reload the zone again.
+ </para>
+
+ </section>
+ <section xml:id="more_help"><info><title>Where Can I Get Help?</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ The Internet Systems Consortium
+ (<acronym>ISC</acronym>) offers a wide range
+ of support and service agreements for <acronym>BIND</acronym> and <acronym>DHCP</acronym> servers. Four
+ levels of premium support are available and each level includes
+ support for all <acronym>ISC</acronym> programs,
+ significant discounts on products
+ and training, and a recognized priority on bug fixes and
+ non-funded feature requests. In addition, <acronym>ISC</acronym> offers a standard
+ support agreement package which includes services ranging from bug
+ fix announcements to remote support. It also includes training in
+ <acronym>BIND</acronym> and <acronym>DHCP</acronym>.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ To discuss arrangements for support, contact
+ <link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="mailto:info@isc.org">info@isc.org</link> or visit the
+ <acronym>ISC</acronym> web page at
+ <link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://www.isc.org/services/support/">http://www.isc.org/services/support/</link>
+ to read more.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+ </chapter>
+
+ <appendix xml:id="Bv9ARM.ch09"><info><title>Release Notes</title></info>
+ <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="notes.xml"/>
+ </appendix>
+
+ <appendix xml:id="Bv9ARM.ch10"><info><title>A Brief History of the <acronym>DNS</acronym> and <acronym>BIND</acronym></title></info>
+ <para xml:id="historical_dns_information">
+ Although the "official" beginning of the Domain Name
+ System occurred in 1984 with the publication of RFC 920, the
+ core of the new system was described in 1983 in RFCs 882 and
+ 883. From 1984 to 1987, the ARPAnet (the precursor to today's
+ Internet) became a testbed of experimentation for developing the
+ new naming/addressing scheme in a rapidly expanding,
+ operational network environment. New RFCs were written and
+ published in 1987 that modified the original documents to
+ incorporate improvements based on the working model. RFC 1034,
+ "Domain Names-Concepts and Facilities", and RFC 1035, "Domain
+ Names-Implementation and Specification" were published and
+ became the standards upon which all <acronym>DNS</acronym> implementations are
+ built.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The first working domain name server, called "Jeeves", was
+ written in 1983-84 by Paul Mockapetris for operation on DEC
+ Tops-20
+ machines located at the University of Southern California's
+ Information
+ Sciences Institute (USC-ISI) and SRI International's Network
+ Information
+ Center (SRI-NIC). A <acronym>DNS</acronym> server for
+ Unix machines, the Berkeley Internet
+ Name Domain (<acronym>BIND</acronym>) package, was
+ written soon after by a group of
+ graduate students at the University of California at Berkeley
+ under
+ a grant from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects
+ Administration
+ (DARPA).
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Versions of <acronym>BIND</acronym> through
+ 4.8.3 were maintained by the Computer
+ Systems Research Group (CSRG) at UC Berkeley. Douglas Terry, Mark
+ Painter, David Riggle and Songnian Zhou made up the initial <acronym>BIND</acronym>
+ project team. After that, additional work on the software package
+ was done by Ralph Campbell. Kevin Dunlap, a Digital Equipment
+ Corporation
+ employee on loan to the CSRG, worked on <acronym>BIND</acronym> for 2 years, from 1985
+ to 1987. Many other people also contributed to <acronym>BIND</acronym> development
+ during that time: Doug Kingston, Craig Partridge, Smoot
+ Carl-Mitchell,
+ Mike Muuss, Jim Bloom and Mike Schwartz. <acronym>BIND</acronym> maintenance was subsequently
+ handled by Mike Karels and Øivind Kure.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <acronym>BIND</acronym> versions 4.9 and 4.9.1 were
+ released by Digital Equipment
+ Corporation (now Compaq Computer Corporation). Paul Vixie, then
+ a DEC employee, became <acronym>BIND</acronym>'s
+ primary caretaker. He was assisted
+ by Phil Almquist, Robert Elz, Alan Barrett, Paul Albitz, Bryan
+ Beecher, Andrew
+ Partan, Andy Cherenson, Tom Limoncelli, Berthold Paffrath, Fuat
+ Baran, Anant Kumar, Art Harkin, Win Treese, Don Lewis, Christophe
+ Wolfhugel, and others.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ In 1994, <acronym>BIND</acronym> version 4.9.2 was sponsored by
+ Vixie Enterprises. Paul
+ Vixie became <acronym>BIND</acronym>'s principal
+ architect/programmer.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <acronym>BIND</acronym> versions from 4.9.3 onward
+ have been developed and maintained
+ by the Internet Systems Consortium and its predecessor,
+ the Internet Software Consortium, with support being provided
+ by ISC's sponsors.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ As co-architects/programmers, Bob Halley and
+ Paul Vixie released the first production-ready version of
+ <acronym>BIND</acronym> version 8 in May 1997.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ BIND version 9 was released in September 2000 and is a
+ major rewrite of nearly all aspects of the underlying
+ BIND architecture.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ BIND versions 4 and 8 are officially deprecated.
+ No additional development is done
+ on BIND version 4 or BIND version 8.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <acronym>BIND</acronym> development work is made
+ possible today by the sponsorship
+ of several corporations, and by the tireless work efforts of
+ numerous individuals.
+ </para>
+ </appendix>
+
+ <appendix xml:id="Bv9ARM.ch11"><info><title>General <acronym>DNS</acronym> Reference Information</title></info>
+
+ <section xml:id="ipv6addresses"><info><title>IPv6 addresses (AAAA)</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ IPv6 addresses are 128-bit identifiers for interfaces and
+ sets of interfaces which were introduced in the <acronym>DNS</acronym> to facilitate
+ scalable Internet routing. There are three types of addresses: <emphasis>Unicast</emphasis>,
+ an identifier for a single interface;
+ <emphasis>Anycast</emphasis>,
+ an identifier for a set of interfaces; and <emphasis>Multicast</emphasis>,
+ an identifier for a set of interfaces. Here we describe the global
+ Unicast address scheme. For more information, see RFC 3587,
+ "Global Unicast Address Format."
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ IPv6 unicast addresses consist of a
+ <emphasis>global routing prefix</emphasis>, a
+ <emphasis>subnet identifier</emphasis>, and an
+ <emphasis>interface identifier</emphasis>.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The global routing prefix is provided by the
+ upstream provider or ISP, and (roughly) corresponds to the
+ IPv4 <emphasis>network</emphasis> section
+ of the address range.
+
+ The subnet identifier is for local subnetting, much the
+ same as subnetting an
+ IPv4 /16 network into /24 subnets.
+
+ The interface identifier is the address of an individual
+ interface on a given network; in IPv6, addresses belong to
+ interfaces rather than to machines.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The subnetting capability of IPv6 is much more flexible than
+ that of IPv4: subnetting can be carried out on bit boundaries,
+ in much the same way as Classless InterDomain Routing
+ (CIDR), and the DNS PTR representation ("nibble" format)
+ makes setting up reverse zones easier.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The Interface Identifier must be unique on the local link,
+ and is usually generated automatically by the IPv6
+ implementation, although it is usually possible to
+ override the default setting if necessary. A typical IPv6
+ address might look like:
+ <command>2001:db8:201:9:a00:20ff:fe81:2b32</command>
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ IPv6 address specifications often contain long strings
+ of zeros, so the architects have included a shorthand for
+ specifying
+ them. The double colon (`::') indicates the longest possible
+ string
+ of zeros that can fit, and can be used only once in an address.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+ <section xml:id="bibliography"><info><title>Bibliography (and Suggested Reading)</title></info>
+
+ <section xml:id="rfcs"><info><title>Request for Comments (RFCs)</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ Specification documents for the Internet protocol suite, including
+ the <acronym>DNS</acronym>, are published as part of
+ the Request for Comments (RFCs)
+ series of technical notes. The standards themselves are defined
+ by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the Internet
+ Engineering Steering Group (IESG). RFCs can be obtained online via FTP at:
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="ftp://www.isi.edu/in-notes/">
+ ftp://www.isi.edu/in-notes/RFC<replaceable>xxxx</replaceable>.txt
+ </link>
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ (where <replaceable>xxxx</replaceable> is
+ the number of the RFC). RFCs are also available via the Web at:
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/">http://www.ietf.org/rfc/</link>.
+ </para>
+ <bibliography>
+ <bibliodiv><info><title>Standards</title></info>
+ <!-- one of (BIBLIOENTRY BIBLIOMIXED) -->
+
+ <biblioentry>
+ <abbrev>RFC974</abbrev>
+ <author><personname><surname>Partridge</surname><firstname>C.</firstname></personname></author>
+ <citetitle>Mail Routing and the Domain System</citetitle>
+ <pubdate>January 1986</pubdate>
+ </biblioentry>
+ <biblioentry>
+ <abbrev>RFC1034</abbrev>
+ <author><personname><surname>Mockapetris</surname><firstname>P.V.</firstname></personname></author>
+ <citetitle>Domain Names — Concepts and Facilities</citetitle>
+ <pubdate>November 1987</pubdate>
+ </biblioentry>
+ <biblioentry>
+ <abbrev>RFC1035</abbrev>
+ <author><personname><surname>Mockapetris</surname><firstname>P. V.</firstname></personname></author> <citetitle>Domain Names — Implementation and
+ Specification</citetitle>
+ <pubdate>November 1987</pubdate>
+ </biblioentry>
+ </bibliodiv>
+ <bibliodiv xml:id="proposed_standards" xreflabel="Proposed Standards"><info><title>Proposed Standards</title></info>
+
+ <!-- one of (BIBLIOENTRY BIBLIOMIXED) -->
+ <biblioentry>
+ <abbrev>RFC2181</abbrev>
+ <author><personname><surname>Elz</surname><firstname>R., R. Bush</firstname></personname></author>
+ <citetitle>Clarifications to the <acronym>DNS</acronym>
+ Specification</citetitle>
+ <pubdate>July 1997</pubdate>
+ </biblioentry>
+ <biblioentry>
+ <abbrev>RFC2308</abbrev>
+ <author><personname><surname>Andrews</surname><firstname>M.</firstname></personname></author>
+ <citetitle>Negative Caching of <acronym>DNS</acronym>
+ Queries</citetitle>
+ <pubdate>March 1998</pubdate>
+ </biblioentry>
+ <biblioentry>
+ <abbrev>RFC1995</abbrev>
+ <author><personname><surname>Ohta</surname><firstname>M.</firstname></personname></author>
+ <citetitle>Incremental Zone Transfer in <acronym>DNS</acronym></citetitle>
+ <pubdate>August 1996</pubdate>
+ </biblioentry>
+ <biblioentry>
+ <abbrev>RFC1996</abbrev>
+ <author><personname><surname>Vixie</surname><firstname>P.</firstname></personname></author>
+ <citetitle>A Mechanism for Prompt Notification of Zone Changes</citetitle>
+ <pubdate>August 1996</pubdate>
+ </biblioentry>
+ <biblioentry>
+ <abbrev>RFC2136</abbrev>
+ <authorgroup>
+ <author><personname><surname>Vixie</surname><firstname>P.</firstname></personname></author>
+ <author><personname><firstname>S.</firstname><surname>Thomson</surname></personname></author>
+ <author><personname><firstname>Y.</firstname><surname>Rekhter</surname></personname></author>
+ <author><personname><firstname>J.</firstname><surname>Bound</surname></personname></author>
+ </authorgroup>
+ <citetitle>Dynamic Updates in the Domain Name System</citetitle>
+ <pubdate>April 1997</pubdate>
+ </biblioentry>
+ <biblioentry>
+ <abbrev>RFC2671</abbrev>
+ <authorgroup>
+ <author><personname><firstname>P.</firstname><surname>Vixie</surname></personname></author>
+ </authorgroup>
+ <citetitle>Extension Mechanisms for DNS (EDNS0)</citetitle>
+ <pubdate>August 1997</pubdate>
+ </biblioentry>
+ <biblioentry>
+ <abbrev>RFC2672</abbrev>
+ <authorgroup>
+ <author><personname><firstname>M.</firstname><surname>Crawford</surname></personname></author>
+ </authorgroup>
+ <citetitle>Non-Terminal DNS Name Redirection</citetitle>
+ <pubdate>August 1999</pubdate>
+ </biblioentry>
+ <biblioentry>
+ <abbrev>RFC2845</abbrev>
+ <authorgroup>
+ <author><personname><surname>Vixie</surname><firstname>P.</firstname></personname></author>
+ <author><personname><firstname>O.</firstname><surname>Gudmundsson</surname></personname></author>
+ <author><personname><firstname>D.</firstname><surname>Eastlake</surname><lineage>3rd</lineage></personname></author>
+ <author><personname><firstname>B.</firstname><surname>Wellington</surname></personname></author>
+ </authorgroup>
+ <citetitle>Secret Key Transaction Authentication for <acronym>DNS</acronym> (TSIG)</citetitle>
+ <pubdate>May 2000</pubdate>
+ </biblioentry>
+ <biblioentry>
+ <abbrev>RFC2930</abbrev>
+ <authorgroup>
+ <author><personname><firstname>D.</firstname><surname>Eastlake</surname><lineage>3rd</lineage></personname></author>
+ </authorgroup>
+ <citetitle>Secret Key Establishment for DNS (TKEY RR)</citetitle>
+ <pubdate>September 2000</pubdate>
+ </biblioentry>
+ <biblioentry>
+ <abbrev>RFC2931</abbrev>
+ <authorgroup>
+ <author><personname><firstname>D.</firstname><surname>Eastlake</surname><lineage>3rd</lineage></personname></author>
+ </authorgroup>
+ <citetitle>DNS Request and Transaction Signatures (SIG(0)s)</citetitle>
+ <pubdate>September 2000</pubdate>
+ </biblioentry>
+ <biblioentry>
+ <abbrev>RFC3007</abbrev>
+ <authorgroup>
+ <author><personname><firstname>B.</firstname><surname>Wellington</surname></personname></author>
+ </authorgroup>
+ <citetitle>Secure Domain Name System (DNS) Dynamic Update</citetitle>
+ <pubdate>November 2000</pubdate>
+ </biblioentry>
+ <biblioentry>
+ <abbrev>RFC3645</abbrev>
+ <authorgroup>
+ <author><personname><firstname>S.</firstname><surname>Kwan</surname></personname></author>
+ <author><personname><firstname>P.</firstname><surname>Garg</surname></personname></author>
+ <author><personname><firstname>J.</firstname><surname>Gilroy</surname></personname></author>
+ <author><personname><firstname>L.</firstname><surname>Esibov</surname></personname></author>
+ <author><personname><firstname>J.</firstname><surname>Westhead</surname></personname></author>
+ <author><personname><firstname>R.</firstname><surname>Hall</surname></personname></author>
+ </authorgroup>
+ <citetitle>Generic Security Service Algorithm for Secret
+ Key Transaction Authentication for DNS
+ (GSS-TSIG)</citetitle>
+ <pubdate>October 2003</pubdate>
+ </biblioentry>
+ </bibliodiv>
+ <bibliodiv><info><title><acronym>DNS</acronym> Security Proposed Standards</title></info>
+
+ <biblioentry>
+ <abbrev>RFC3225</abbrev>
+ <authorgroup>
+ <author><personname><firstname>D.</firstname><surname>Conrad</surname></personname></author>
+ </authorgroup>
+ <citetitle>Indicating Resolver Support of DNSSEC</citetitle>
+ <pubdate>December 2001</pubdate>
+ </biblioentry>
+ <biblioentry>
+ <abbrev>RFC3833</abbrev>
+ <authorgroup>
+ <author><personname><firstname>D.</firstname><surname>Atkins</surname></personname></author>
+ <author><personname><firstname>R.</firstname><surname>Austein</surname></personname></author>
+ </authorgroup>
+ <citetitle>Threat Analysis of the Domain Name System (DNS)</citetitle>
+ <pubdate>August 2004</pubdate>
+ </biblioentry>
+ <biblioentry>
+ <abbrev>RFC4033</abbrev>
+ <authorgroup>
+ <author><personname><firstname>R.</firstname><surname>Arends</surname></personname></author>
+ <author><personname><firstname>R.</firstname><surname>Austein</surname></personname></author>
+ <author><personname><firstname>M.</firstname><surname>Larson</surname></personname></author>
+ <author><personname><firstname>D.</firstname><surname>Massey</surname></personname></author>
+ <author><personname><firstname>S.</firstname><surname>Rose</surname></personname></author>
+ </authorgroup>
+ <citetitle>DNS Security Introduction and Requirements</citetitle>
+ <pubdate>March 2005</pubdate>
+ </biblioentry>
+ <biblioentry>
+ <abbrev>RFC4034</abbrev>
+ <authorgroup>
+ <author><personname><firstname>R.</firstname><surname>Arends</surname></personname></author>
+ <author><personname><firstname>R.</firstname><surname>Austein</surname></personname></author>
+ <author><personname><firstname>M.</firstname><surname>Larson</surname></personname></author>
+ <author><personname><firstname>D.</firstname><surname>Massey</surname></personname></author>
+ <author><personname><firstname>S.</firstname><surname>Rose</surname></personname></author>
+ </authorgroup>
+ <citetitle>Resource Records for the DNS Security Extensions</citetitle>
+ <pubdate>March 2005</pubdate>
+ </biblioentry>
+ <biblioentry>
+ <abbrev>RFC4035</abbrev>
+ <authorgroup>
+ <author><personname><firstname>R.</firstname><surname>Arends</surname></personname></author>
+ <author><personname><firstname>R.</firstname><surname>Austein</surname></personname></author>
+ <author><personname><firstname>M.</firstname><surname>Larson</surname></personname></author>
+ <author><personname><firstname>D.</firstname><surname>Massey</surname></personname></author>
+ <author><personname><firstname>S.</firstname><surname>Rose</surname></personname></author>
+ </authorgroup>
+ <citetitle>Protocol Modifications for the DNS
+ Security Extensions</citetitle>
+ <pubdate>March 2005</pubdate>
+ </biblioentry>
+ </bibliodiv>
+ <bibliodiv><info><title>Other Important RFCs About <acronym>DNS</acronym>
+ Implementation</title></info>
+
+ <biblioentry>
+ <abbrev>RFC1535</abbrev>
+ <author><personname><surname>Gavron</surname><firstname>E.</firstname></personname></author>
+ <citetitle>A Security Problem and Proposed Correction With Widely
+ Deployed <acronym>DNS</acronym> Software</citetitle>
+ <pubdate>October 1993</pubdate>
+ </biblioentry>
+ <biblioentry>
+ <abbrev>RFC1536</abbrev>
+ <authorgroup>
+ <author><personname><surname>Kumar</surname><firstname>A.</firstname></personname></author>
+ <author><personname><firstname>J.</firstname><surname>Postel</surname></personname></author>
+ <author><personname><firstname>C.</firstname><surname>Neuman</surname></personname></author>
+ <author><personname><firstname>P.</firstname><surname>Danzig</surname></personname></author>
+ <author><personname><firstname>S.</firstname><surname>Miller</surname></personname></author>
+ </authorgroup>
+ <citetitle>Common <acronym>DNS</acronym> Implementation
+ Errors and Suggested Fixes</citetitle>
+ <pubdate>October 1993</pubdate>
+ </biblioentry>
+ <biblioentry>
+ <abbrev>RFC1982</abbrev>
+ <authorgroup>
+ <author><personname><surname>Elz</surname><firstname>R.</firstname></personname></author>
+ <author><personname><firstname>R.</firstname><surname>Bush</surname></personname></author>
+ </authorgroup>
+ <citetitle>Serial Number Arithmetic</citetitle>
+ <pubdate>August 1996</pubdate>
+ </biblioentry>
+ <biblioentry>
+ <abbrev>RFC4074</abbrev>
+ <authorgroup>
+ <author><personname><surname>Morishita</surname><firstname>Y.</firstname></personname></author>
+ <author><personname><firstname>T.</firstname><surname>Jinmei</surname></personname></author>
+ </authorgroup>
+ <citetitle>Common Misbehaviour Against <acronym>DNS</acronym>
+ Queries for IPv6 Addresses</citetitle>
+ <pubdate>May 2005</pubdate>
+ </biblioentry>
+ </bibliodiv>
+ <bibliodiv><info><title>Resource Record Types</title></info>
+
+ <biblioentry>
+ <abbrev>RFC1183</abbrev>
+ <authorgroup>
+ <author><personname><surname>Everhart</surname><firstname>C.F.</firstname></personname></author>
+ <author><personname><firstname>L. A.</firstname><surname>Mamakos</surname></personname></author>
+ <author><personname><firstname>R.</firstname><surname>Ullmann</surname></personname></author>
+ <author><personname><firstname>P.</firstname><surname>Mockapetris</surname></personname></author>
+ </authorgroup>
+ <citetitle>New <acronym>DNS</acronym> RR Definitions</citetitle>
+ <pubdate>October 1990</pubdate>
+ </biblioentry>
+ <biblioentry>
+ <abbrev>RFC1706</abbrev>
+ <authorgroup>
+ <author><personname><surname>Manning</surname><firstname>B.</firstname></personname></author>
+ <author><personname><firstname>R.</firstname><surname>Colella</surname></personname></author>
+ </authorgroup>
+ <citetitle><acronym>DNS</acronym> NSAP Resource Records</citetitle>
+ <pubdate>October 1994</pubdate>
+ </biblioentry>
+ <biblioentry>
+ <abbrev>RFC2168</abbrev>
+ <authorgroup>
+ <author><personname><surname>Daniel</surname><firstname>R.</firstname></personname></author>
+ <author><personname><firstname>M.</firstname><surname>Mealling</surname></personname></author>
+ </authorgroup>
+ <citetitle>Resolution of Uniform Resource Identifiers using
+ the Domain Name System</citetitle>
+ <pubdate>June 1997</pubdate>
+ </biblioentry>
+ <biblioentry>
+ <abbrev>RFC1876</abbrev>
+ <authorgroup>
+ <author><personname><surname>Davis</surname><firstname>C.</firstname></personname></author>
+ <author><personname><firstname>P.</firstname><surname>Vixie</surname></personname></author>
+ <author><personname><firstname>T.</firstname><firstname>Goodwin</firstname></personname></author>
+ <author><personname><firstname>I.</firstname><surname>Dickinson</surname></personname></author>
+ </authorgroup>
+ <citetitle>A Means for Expressing Location Information in the
+ Domain
+ Name System</citetitle>
+ <pubdate>January 1996</pubdate>
+ </biblioentry>
+ <biblioentry>
+ <abbrev>RFC2052</abbrev>
+ <authorgroup>
+ <author><personname><surname>Gulbrandsen</surname><firstname>A.</firstname></personname></author>
+ <author><personname><firstname>P.</firstname><surname>Vixie</surname></personname></author>
+ </authorgroup>
+ <citetitle>A <acronym>DNS</acronym> RR for Specifying the
+ Location of
+ Services</citetitle>
+ <pubdate>October 1996</pubdate>
+ </biblioentry>
+ <biblioentry>
+ <abbrev>RFC2163</abbrev>
+ <author><personname><surname>Allocchio</surname><firstname>A.</firstname></personname></author>
+ <citetitle>Using the Internet <acronym>DNS</acronym> to
+ Distribute MIXER
+ Conformant Global Address Mapping</citetitle>
+ <pubdate>January 1998</pubdate>
+ </biblioentry>
+ <biblioentry>
+ <abbrev>RFC2230</abbrev>
+ <author><personname><surname>Atkinson</surname><firstname>R.</firstname></personname></author>
+ <citetitle>Key Exchange Delegation Record for the <acronym>DNS</acronym></citetitle>
+ <pubdate>October 1997</pubdate>
+ </biblioentry>
+ <biblioentry>
+ <abbrev>RFC2536</abbrev>
+ <author><personname><surname>Eastlake</surname><firstname>D.</firstname><lineage>3rd</lineage></personname></author>
+ <citetitle>DSA KEYs and SIGs in the Domain Name System (DNS)</citetitle>
+ <pubdate>March 1999</pubdate>
+ </biblioentry>
+ <biblioentry>
+ <abbrev>RFC2537</abbrev>
+ <author><personname><surname>Eastlake</surname><firstname>D.</firstname><lineage>3rd</lineage></personname></author>
+ <citetitle>RSA/MD5 KEYs and SIGs in the Domain Name System (DNS)</citetitle>
+ <pubdate>March 1999</pubdate>
+ </biblioentry>
+ <biblioentry>
+ <abbrev>RFC2538</abbrev>
+ <authorgroup>
+ <author><personname><surname>Eastlake</surname><firstname>D.</firstname><lineage>3rd</lineage></personname></author>
+ <author><personname><surname>Gudmundsson</surname><firstname>O.</firstname></personname></author>
+ </authorgroup>
+ <citetitle>Storing Certificates in the Domain Name System (DNS)</citetitle>
+ <pubdate>March 1999</pubdate>
+ </biblioentry>
+ <biblioentry>
+ <abbrev>RFC2539</abbrev>
+ <authorgroup>
+ <author><personname><surname>Eastlake</surname><firstname>D.</firstname><lineage>3rd</lineage></personname></author>
+ </authorgroup>
+ <citetitle>Storage of Diffie-Hellman Keys in the Domain Name System (DNS)</citetitle>
+ <pubdate>March 1999</pubdate>
+ </biblioentry>
+ <biblioentry>
+ <abbrev>RFC2540</abbrev>
+ <authorgroup>
+ <author><personname><surname>Eastlake</surname><firstname>D.</firstname><lineage>3rd</lineage></personname></author>
+ </authorgroup>
+ <citetitle>Detached Domain Name System (DNS) Information</citetitle>
+ <pubdate>March 1999</pubdate>
+ </biblioentry>
+ <biblioentry>
+ <abbrev>RFC2782</abbrev>
+ <author><personname><surname>Gulbrandsen</surname><firstname>A.</firstname></personname></author>
+ <author><personname><surname>Vixie</surname><firstname>P.</firstname></personname></author>
+ <author><personname><surname>Esibov</surname><firstname>L.</firstname></personname></author>
+ <citetitle>A DNS RR for specifying the location of services (DNS SRV)</citetitle>
+ <pubdate>February 2000</pubdate>
+ </biblioentry>
+ <biblioentry>
+ <abbrev>RFC2915</abbrev>
+ <author><personname><surname>Mealling</surname><firstname>M.</firstname></personname></author>
+ <author><personname><surname>Daniel</surname><firstname>R.</firstname></personname></author>
+ <citetitle>The Naming Authority Pointer (NAPTR) DNS Resource Record</citetitle>
+ <pubdate>September 2000</pubdate>
+ </biblioentry>
+ <biblioentry>
+ <abbrev>RFC3110</abbrev>
+ <author><personname><surname>Eastlake</surname><firstname>D.</firstname><lineage>3rd</lineage></personname></author>
+ <citetitle>RSA/SHA-1 SIGs and RSA KEYs in the Domain Name System (DNS)</citetitle>
+ <pubdate>May 2001</pubdate>
+ </biblioentry>
+ <biblioentry>
+ <abbrev>RFC3123</abbrev>
+ <author><personname><surname>Koch</surname><firstname>P.</firstname></personname></author>
+ <citetitle>A DNS RR Type for Lists of Address Prefixes (APL RR)</citetitle>
+ <pubdate>June 2001</pubdate>
+ </biblioentry>
+ <biblioentry>
+ <abbrev>RFC3596</abbrev>
+ <authorgroup>
+ <author><personname><surname>Thomson</surname><firstname>S.</firstname></personname></author>
+ <author><personname><firstname>C.</firstname><surname>Huitema</surname></personname></author>
+ <author><personname><firstname>V.</firstname><surname>Ksinant</surname></personname></author>
+ <author><personname><firstname>M.</firstname><surname>Souissi</surname></personname></author>
+ </authorgroup>
+ <citetitle><acronym>DNS</acronym> Extensions to support IP
+ version 6</citetitle>
+ <pubdate>October 2003</pubdate>
+ </biblioentry>
+ <biblioentry>
+ <abbrev>RFC3597</abbrev>
+ <author><personname><surname>Gustafsson</surname><firstname>A.</firstname></personname></author>
+ <citetitle>Handling of Unknown DNS Resource Record (RR) Types</citetitle>
+ <pubdate>September 2003</pubdate>
+ </biblioentry>
+ </bibliodiv>
+ <bibliodiv><info><title><acronym>DNS</acronym> and the Internet</title></info>
+
+ <biblioentry>
+ <abbrev>RFC1101</abbrev>
+ <author><personname><surname>Mockapetris</surname><firstname>P. V.</firstname></personname></author>
+ <citetitle><acronym>DNS</acronym> Encoding of Network Names
+ and Other Types</citetitle>
+ <pubdate>April 1989</pubdate>
+ </biblioentry>
+ <biblioentry>
+ <abbrev>RFC1123</abbrev>
+ <author><personname><surname>Braden</surname><surname>R.</surname></personname></author>
+ <citetitle>Requirements for Internet Hosts - Application and
+ Support</citetitle>
+ <pubdate>October 1989</pubdate>
+ </biblioentry>
+ <biblioentry>
+ <abbrev>RFC1591</abbrev>
+ <author><personname><surname>Postel</surname><firstname>J.</firstname></personname></author>
+ <citetitle>Domain Name System Structure and Delegation</citetitle>
+ <pubdate>March 1994</pubdate>
+ </biblioentry>
+ <biblioentry>
+ <abbrev>RFC2317</abbrev>
+ <authorgroup>
+ <author><personname><surname>Eidnes</surname><firstname>H.</firstname></personname></author>
+ <author><personname><firstname>G.</firstname><surname>de Groot</surname></personname></author>
+ <author><personname><firstname>P.</firstname><surname>Vixie</surname></personname></author>
+ </authorgroup>
+ <citetitle>Classless IN-ADDR.ARPA Delegation</citetitle>
+ <pubdate>March 1998</pubdate>
+ </biblioentry>
+ <biblioentry>
+ <abbrev>RFC2826</abbrev>
+ <authorgroup>
+ <author><personname><surname>Internet Architecture Board</surname></personname></author>
+ </authorgroup>
+ <citetitle>IAB Technical Comment on the Unique DNS Root</citetitle>
+ <pubdate>May 2000</pubdate>
+ </biblioentry>
+ <biblioentry>
+ <abbrev>RFC2929</abbrev>
+ <authorgroup>
+ <author><personname><surname>Eastlake</surname><firstname>D.</firstname><lineage>3rd</lineage></personname></author>
+ <author><personname><surname>Brunner-Williams</surname><firstname>E.</firstname></personname></author>
+ <author><personname><surname>Manning</surname><firstname>B.</firstname></personname></author>
+ </authorgroup>
+ <citetitle>Domain Name System (DNS) IANA Considerations</citetitle>
+ <pubdate>September 2000</pubdate>
+ </biblioentry>
+ </bibliodiv>
+ <bibliodiv><info><title><acronym>DNS</acronym> Operations</title></info>
+
+ <biblioentry>
+ <abbrev>RFC1033</abbrev>
+ <author><personname><surname>Lottor</surname><firstname>M.</firstname></personname></author>
+ <citetitle>Domain administrators operations guide</citetitle>
+ <pubdate>November 1987</pubdate>
+ </biblioentry>
+ <biblioentry>
+ <abbrev>RFC1537</abbrev>
+ <author><personname><surname>Beertema</surname><firstname>P.</firstname></personname></author>
+ <citetitle>Common <acronym>DNS</acronym> Data File
+ Configuration Errors</citetitle>
+ <pubdate>October 1993</pubdate>
+ </biblioentry>
+ <biblioentry>
+ <abbrev>RFC1912</abbrev>
+ <author><personname><surname>Barr</surname><firstname>D.</firstname></personname></author>
+ <citetitle>Common <acronym>DNS</acronym> Operational and
+ Configuration Errors</citetitle>
+ <pubdate>February 1996</pubdate>
+ </biblioentry>
+ <biblioentry>
+ <abbrev>RFC2010</abbrev>
+ <authorgroup>
+ <author><personname><surname>Manning</surname><firstname>B.</firstname></personname></author>
+ <author><personname><firstname>P.</firstname><surname>Vixie</surname></personname></author>
+ </authorgroup>
+ <citetitle>Operational Criteria for Root Name Servers</citetitle>
+ <pubdate>October 1996</pubdate>
+ </biblioentry>
+ <biblioentry>
+ <abbrev>RFC2219</abbrev>
+ <authorgroup>
+ <author><personname><surname>Hamilton</surname><firstname>M.</firstname></personname></author>
+ <author><personname><firstname>R.</firstname><surname>Wright</surname></personname></author>
+ </authorgroup>
+ <citetitle>Use of <acronym>DNS</acronym> Aliases for
+ Network Services</citetitle>
+ <pubdate>October 1997</pubdate>
+ </biblioentry>
+ </bibliodiv>
+ <bibliodiv><info><title>Internationalized Domain Names</title></info>
+
+ <biblioentry>
+ <abbrev>RFC2825</abbrev>
+ <authorgroup>
+ <author><personname><surname>IAB</surname></personname></author>
+ <author><personname><surname>Daigle</surname><firstname>R.</firstname></personname></author>
+ </authorgroup>
+ <citetitle>A Tangled Web: Issues of I18N, Domain Names,
+ and the Other Internet protocols</citetitle>
+ <pubdate>May 2000</pubdate>
+ </biblioentry>
+ <biblioentry>
+ <abbrev>RFC3490</abbrev>
+ <authorgroup>
+ <author><personname><surname>Faltstrom</surname><firstname>P.</firstname></personname></author>
+ <author><personname><surname>Hoffman</surname><firstname>P.</firstname></personname></author>
+ <author><personname><surname>Costello</surname><firstname>A.</firstname></personname></author>
+ </authorgroup>
+ <citetitle>Internationalizing Domain Names in Applications (IDNA)</citetitle>
+ <pubdate>March 2003</pubdate>
+ </biblioentry>
+ <biblioentry>
+ <abbrev>RFC3491</abbrev>
+ <authorgroup>
+ <author><personname><surname>Hoffman</surname><firstname>P.</firstname></personname></author>
+ <author><personname><surname>Blanchet</surname><firstname>M.</firstname></personname></author>
+ </authorgroup>
+ <citetitle>Nameprep: A Stringprep Profile for Internationalized Domain Names</citetitle>
+ <pubdate>March 2003</pubdate>
+ </biblioentry>
+ <biblioentry>
+ <abbrev>RFC3492</abbrev>
+ <authorgroup>
+ <author><personname><surname>Costello</surname><firstname>A.</firstname></personname></author>
+ </authorgroup>
+ <citetitle>Punycode: A Bootstring encoding of Unicode
+ for Internationalized Domain Names in
+ Applications (IDNA)</citetitle>
+ <pubdate>March 2003</pubdate>
+ </biblioentry>
+ </bibliodiv>
+ <bibliodiv><info><title>Other <acronym>DNS</acronym>-related RFCs</title></info>
+
+ <note>
+ <para>
+ Note: the following list of RFCs, although
+ <acronym>DNS</acronym>-related, are not
+ concerned with implementing software.
+ </para>
+ </note>
+ <biblioentry>
+ <abbrev>RFC1464</abbrev>
+ <author><personname><surname>Rosenbaum</surname><firstname>R.</firstname></personname></author>
+ <citetitle>Using the Domain Name System To Store Arbitrary String
+ Attributes</citetitle>
+ <pubdate>May 1993</pubdate>
+ </biblioentry>
+ <biblioentry>
+ <abbrev>RFC1713</abbrev>
+ <author><personname><surname>Romao</surname><firstname>A.</firstname></personname></author>
+ <citetitle>Tools for <acronym>DNS</acronym> Debugging</citetitle>
+ <pubdate>November 1994</pubdate>
+ </biblioentry>
+ <biblioentry>
+ <abbrev>RFC1794</abbrev>
+ <author><personname><surname>Brisco</surname><firstname>T.</firstname></personname></author>
+ <citetitle><acronym>DNS</acronym> Support for Load
+ Balancing</citetitle>
+ <pubdate>April 1995</pubdate>
+ </biblioentry>
+ <biblioentry>
+ <abbrev>RFC2240</abbrev>
+ <author><personname><surname>Vaughan</surname><firstname>O.</firstname></personname></author>
+ <citetitle>A Legal Basis for Domain Name Allocation</citetitle>
+ <pubdate>November 1997</pubdate>
+ </biblioentry>
+ <biblioentry>
+ <abbrev>RFC2345</abbrev>
+ <authorgroup>
+ <author><personname><surname>Klensin</surname><firstname>J.</firstname></personname></author>
+ <author><personname><firstname>T.</firstname><surname>Wolf</surname></personname></author>
+ <author><personname><firstname>G.</firstname><surname>Oglesby</surname></personname></author>
+ </authorgroup>
+ <citetitle>Domain Names and Company Name Retrieval</citetitle>
+ <pubdate>May 1998</pubdate>
+ </biblioentry>
+ <biblioentry>
+ <abbrev>RFC2352</abbrev>
+ <author><personname><surname>Vaughan</surname><firstname>O.</firstname></personname></author>
+ <citetitle>A Convention For Using Legal Names as Domain Names</citetitle>
+ <pubdate>May 1998</pubdate>
+ </biblioentry>
+ <biblioentry>
+ <abbrev>RFC3071</abbrev>
+ <authorgroup>
+ <author><personname><surname>Klensin</surname><firstname>J.</firstname></personname></author>
+ </authorgroup>
+ <citetitle>Reflections on the DNS, RFC 1591, and Categories of Domains</citetitle>
+ <pubdate>February 2001</pubdate>
+ </biblioentry>
+ <biblioentry>
+ <abbrev>RFC3258</abbrev>
+ <authorgroup>
+ <author><personname><surname>Hardie</surname><firstname>T.</firstname></personname></author>
+ </authorgroup>
+ <citetitle>Distributing Authoritative Name Servers via
+ Shared Unicast Addresses</citetitle>
+ <pubdate>April 2002</pubdate>
+ </biblioentry>
+ <biblioentry>
+ <abbrev>RFC3901</abbrev>
+ <authorgroup>
+ <author><personname><surname>Durand</surname><firstname>A.</firstname></personname></author>
+ <author><personname><firstname>J.</firstname><surname>Ihren</surname></personname></author>
+ </authorgroup>
+ <citetitle>DNS IPv6 Transport Operational Guidelines</citetitle>
+ <pubdate>September 2004</pubdate>
+ </biblioentry>
+ </bibliodiv>
+ <bibliodiv><info><title>Obsolete and Unimplemented Experimental RFC</title></info>
+
+ <biblioentry>
+ <abbrev>RFC1712</abbrev>
+ <authorgroup>
+ <author><personname><surname>Farrell</surname><firstname>C.</firstname></personname></author>
+ <author><personname><firstname>M.</firstname><surname>Schulze</surname></personname></author>
+ <author><personname><firstname>S.</firstname><surname>Pleitner</surname></personname></author>
+ <author><personname><firstname>D.</firstname><surname>Baldoni</surname></personname></author>
+ </authorgroup>
+ <citetitle><acronym>DNS</acronym> Encoding of Geographical
+ Location</citetitle>
+ <pubdate>November 1994</pubdate>
+ </biblioentry>
+ <biblioentry>
+ <abbrev>RFC2673</abbrev>
+ <authorgroup>
+ <author><personname><surname>Crawford</surname><firstname>M.</firstname></personname></author>
+ </authorgroup>
+ <citetitle>Binary Labels in the Domain Name System</citetitle>
+ <pubdate>August 1999</pubdate>
+ </biblioentry>
+ <biblioentry>
+ <abbrev>RFC2874</abbrev>
+ <authorgroup>
+ <author><personname><surname>Crawford</surname><firstname>M.</firstname></personname></author>
+ <author><personname><surname>Huitema</surname><firstname>C.</firstname></personname></author>
+ </authorgroup>
+ <citetitle>DNS Extensions to Support IPv6 Address Aggregation
+ and Renumbering</citetitle>
+ <pubdate>July 2000</pubdate>
+ </biblioentry>
+ </bibliodiv>
+ <bibliodiv><info><title>Obsoleted DNS Security RFCs</title></info>
+
+ <note>
+ <para>
+ Most of these have been consolidated into RFC4033,
+ RFC4034 and RFC4035 which collectively describe DNSSECbis.
+ </para>
+ </note>
+ <biblioentry>
+ <abbrev>RFC2065</abbrev>
+ <authorgroup>
+ <author><personname><surname>Eastlake</surname><lineage>3rd</lineage><firstname>D.</firstname></personname></author>
+ <author><personname><firstname>C.</firstname><surname>Kaufman</surname></personname></author>
+ </authorgroup>
+ <citetitle>Domain Name System Security Extensions</citetitle>
+ <pubdate>January 1997</pubdate>
+ </biblioentry>
+ <biblioentry>
+ <abbrev>RFC2137</abbrev>
+ <author><personname><surname>Eastlake</surname><lineage>3rd</lineage><firstname>D.</firstname></personname></author>
+ <citetitle>Secure Domain Name System Dynamic Update</citetitle>
+ <pubdate>April 1997</pubdate>
+ </biblioentry>
+ <biblioentry>
+ <abbrev>RFC2535</abbrev>
+ <authorgroup>
+ <author><personname><surname>Eastlake</surname><lineage>3rd</lineage><firstname>D.</firstname></personname></author>
+ </authorgroup>
+ <citetitle>Domain Name System Security Extensions</citetitle>
+ <pubdate>March 1999</pubdate>
+ </biblioentry>
+ <biblioentry>
+ <abbrev>RFC3008</abbrev>
+ <authorgroup>
+ <author><personname><surname>Wellington</surname><firstname>B.</firstname></personname></author>
+ </authorgroup>
+ <citetitle>Domain Name System Security (DNSSEC)
+ Signing Authority</citetitle>
+ <pubdate>November 2000</pubdate>
+ </biblioentry>
+ <biblioentry>
+ <abbrev>RFC3090</abbrev>
+ <authorgroup>
+ <author><personname><surname>Lewis</surname><firstname>E.</firstname></personname></author>
+ </authorgroup>
+ <citetitle>DNS Security Extension Clarification on Zone Status</citetitle>
+ <pubdate>March 2001</pubdate>
+ </biblioentry>
+ <biblioentry>
+ <abbrev>RFC3445</abbrev>
+ <authorgroup>
+ <author><personname><surname>Massey</surname><firstname>D.</firstname></personname></author>
+ <author><personname><surname>Rose</surname><firstname>S.</firstname></personname></author>
+ </authorgroup>
+ <citetitle>Limiting the Scope of the KEY Resource Record (RR)</citetitle>
+ <pubdate>December 2002</pubdate>
+ </biblioentry>
+ <biblioentry>
+ <abbrev>RFC3655</abbrev>
+ <authorgroup>
+ <author><personname><surname>Wellington</surname><firstname>B.</firstname></personname></author>
+ <author><personname><surname>Gudmundsson</surname><firstname>O.</firstname></personname></author>
+ </authorgroup>
+ <citetitle>Redefinition of DNS Authenticated Data (AD) bit</citetitle>
+ <pubdate>November 2003</pubdate>
+ </biblioentry>
+ <biblioentry>
+ <abbrev>RFC3658</abbrev>
+ <authorgroup>
+ <author><personname><surname>Gudmundsson</surname><firstname>O.</firstname></personname></author>
+ </authorgroup>
+ <citetitle>Delegation Signer (DS) Resource Record (RR)</citetitle>
+ <pubdate>December 2003</pubdate>
+ </biblioentry>
+ <biblioentry>
+ <abbrev>RFC3755</abbrev>
+ <authorgroup>
+ <author><personname><surname>Weiler</surname><firstname>S.</firstname></personname></author>
+ </authorgroup>
+ <citetitle>Legacy Resolver Compatibility for Delegation Signer (DS)</citetitle>
+ <pubdate>May 2004</pubdate>
+ </biblioentry>
+ <biblioentry>
+ <abbrev>RFC3757</abbrev>
+ <authorgroup>
+ <author><personname><surname>Kolkman</surname><firstname>O.</firstname></personname></author>
+ <author><personname><surname>Schlyter</surname><firstname>J.</firstname></personname></author>
+ <author><personname><surname>Lewis</surname><firstname>E.</firstname></personname></author>
+ </authorgroup>
+ <citetitle>Domain Name System KEY (DNSKEY) Resource Record
+ (RR) Secure Entry Point (SEP) Flag</citetitle>
+ <pubdate>April 2004</pubdate>
+ </biblioentry>
+ <biblioentry>
+ <abbrev>RFC3845</abbrev>
+ <authorgroup>
+ <author><personname><surname>Schlyter</surname><firstname>J.</firstname></personname></author>
+ </authorgroup>
+ <citetitle>DNS Security (DNSSEC) NextSECure (NSEC) RDATA Format</citetitle>
+ <pubdate>August 2004</pubdate>
+ </biblioentry>
+ </bibliodiv>
+ </bibliography>
+ </section>
+ <section xml:id="internet_drafts"><info><title>Internet Drafts</title></info>
+
+ <para>
+ Internet Drafts (IDs) are rough-draft working documents of
+ the Internet Engineering Task Force. They are, in essence, RFCs
+ in the preliminary stages of development. Implementors are
+ cautioned not
+ to regard IDs as archival, and they should not be quoted or cited
+ in any formal documents unless accompanied by the disclaimer that
+ they are "works in progress." IDs have a lifespan of six months
+ after which they are deleted unless updated by their authors.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+ <section xml:id="more_about_bind"><info><title>Other Documents About <acronym>BIND</acronym></title></info>
+
+ <para/>
+ <bibliography>
+ <biblioentry>
+ <authorgroup>
+ <author><personname><surname>Albitz</surname><firstname>Paul</firstname></personname></author>
+ <author><personname><firstname>Cricket</firstname><surname>Liu</surname></personname></author>
+ </authorgroup>
+ <citetitle><acronym>DNS</acronym> and <acronym>BIND</acronym></citetitle>
+ <copyright>
+ <year>1998</year>
+ <holder>Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly and Associates</holder>
+ </copyright>
+ </biblioentry>
+ </bibliography>
+ </section>
+ </section>
+ </appendix>
+
+ <appendix xml:id="Bv9ARM.ch12"><info><title>BIND 9 DNS Library Support</title></info>
+ <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="libdns.xml"/>
+ </appendix>
+
+ <reference xml:id="Bv9ARM.ch13"><info><title>Manual pages</title></info>
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