<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Not sure where to report this, but there's a problem in the documentation of BIND 9.7.4, as distributed by ISC.</div><div><br></div><div>The Release Notes included in the bind-9.7.4 tarball, as well as the release notes on the web site:</div><div><br></div><div> <a href="ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.7.4/RELEASE-NOTES-BIND-9.7.4.html">ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.7.4/RELEASE-NOTES-BIND-9.7.4.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>state that the environment variable to improve loading times for name servers with large numbers of zones is:</div><div><br></div><div> BIND9_ZONE_TASKS_HINTS</div><div><br></div><div>But that is incorrect. The actual variable name is:</div><div><br></div><div> BIND9_ZONE_TASKS_HINT</div><div><br></div><div>I discovered this because I was curious how this change was implemented (I had not seen the blog post <a href="http://www.isc.org/community/blog/201107/major-improvement-bind-9-startup-performance">http://www.isc.org/community/blog/201107/major-improvement-bind-9-startup-performance</a> when I started to look into this), and couldn't find the string "BIND9_ZONE_TASKS_HINTS" anywhere in the source code.</div><br></body></html>