Solaris 8 System Administration Supplement

Chapter 22 Migration From Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND), Version 8.1.2 to BIND Version 8.2.2, Patch Level 5

Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) has migrated from version 8.1.2 to 8.2.2 in the Solaris 8 4/01 release. The following information supplements information on BIND that is in the Solaris Naming Administration Guide.

Note –

For the most current man pages, use the man command. The Solaris 8 Update release man pages include new feature information not found in the Solaris 8 Reference Manual Collection.

BIND Upgrade

BIND new functionality in version 8.2.2 includes:

In.named configuration options. See conf(4) man page.
Extensions to the resolver (3RESOLV) interface that are safe to use in multithreaded applications.
The addition of the ndc(1M) command, which is used to start and stop reconfigure in.named, and the dnskeygen(1M) command, which is used to create TSIG and DNSSEC keys.