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Concise Guide to DNS and BIND, The
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Concise Guide to DNS and BIND, The

by Nicolai Langfeldt
November 2000
Intermediate to advanced
336 pages
7h 53m
English
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The server Statement

Syntax

server ip_addr {
  [ bogus yes_or_no; ]
  [ transfers number; ]
  [ transfer-format ( one-answer | many-answers ); ]
  [ keys { key_id [ key_id ... ] }; ]
};

Definition and Usage

The server statement defines the characteristics to be associated with a remote name server.

If you discover that a server is giving out bad data, marking it as bogus will prevent further queries to it. The default value of bogus is no.

The server supports two zone transfer methods. The first, one-answer, uses one DNS message per resource record transferred. many-answers packs as many resource records as possible into a message. many-answers is more efficient, but is only known to be understood by BIND 8.1 and patched versions of BIND 4.9.5. ...

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