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r:#333333'>[root@ns1 ~]# head -60 /etc/named.conf<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#333333'>// named.conf<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#333333'>options {<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#333333'>        listen-on port 53 { 127.0.0.1; 212.119.92.5; 212.119.92.10;};<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#333333'>        listen-on-v6 port 53 { ::1; };<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#333333'>        directory       "/var/named";<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#333333'>        dump-file       "/var/named/data/cache_dump.db";<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#333333'>#       statistics-file "/var/named/ej.stats";<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#333333'>        memstatistics-file "/var/named/data/named_mem_stats.txt";<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#333333'>        masterfile-format text;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#333333'>        version "Have a nice day!, Good Bye";<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#333333'>//      allow-query     { localhost; };<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#333333'>transfers-out 2000;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#333333'>allow-transfer {212.119.93.5;213.230.0.10; 212.119.93.10; 212.119.92.6;};<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#333333'>#allow-notify { 212.119.64.3;212.119.93.5;212.119.93.4;213.230.0.10; };<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#333333'>also-notify {213.230.0.10;};<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:double windowtext 2.25pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in;background:white'><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in;background:white;border:none;padding:0in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#333333'>allow-query {127.0.0.0/8;212.119.65.0/25; 212.119.66.52;};<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>