bind 9.3 documentation?

Danny Mayer mayer at gis.net
Fri Aug 20 21:25:25 UTC 2004


The HTML documentation comes with every version of BIND source. If you don't
have the source, go to isc.org and download the source.

Danny

At 01:47 PM 8/20/2004, Jason Vas Dias wrote:
>On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 13:26, Marten Lehmann wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > where can I find the documentation of bind 9.3 or at least 9.2? All
> > documentation I found was of 2001 or older. Do I have to buy the
> > dns&bind book from oreilly, or is it online somewhere?
> >
> > Regards
> > Marten
> >
>The best documentation available to start with
>is the Bv9ARM :
>(BIND Version 9 Administrator's Reference Manual)
>shipped with every bind9 distribution under doc/ -
>on RedHat it is shipped in /usr/share/doc/bind-$version/arm .
>
>This does not make up for the fact that the
>distribution ships no 'named.conf(5)' manpage.
>
>I've checked every major Linux distribution, and
>they all ship the same named.conf(5) from BSD 4.4
>(1999) which documents bind 8 and is badly out of
>date.
>
>It would be great if BIND would supply an up to
>date named.conf man-page!
>
>Also, a man-page for zone files is needed.
>



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