Is "domain" a valid directive ?
Mark Andrews
Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Mon Mar 10 15:36:27 UTC 2008
> Hi all,
> Sorry for asking query on depricated version of BIND i.e. bind4, But I
> didn't find any specific mailing list to ask about bind4, So only
> posting the Question here.
>
> Is there a directive called "domain" is valid for bind4?
Yes.
> I have searched the net and various admin related book, but I didn't
> found anything about this domain directive in bind4.
> So I thought, there is no such directive in that name, but to my
> astonishment the bind4 daemon
> works fine without saying any error if I am having a domain directive
> in the named.boot as mentioned below
> "domain mydomain.com"
>
> Additionally if I run the migration script provided with bind9 source
> base i.e. named-bootconf under contrib directory it is simplpy
> ignoring the "domain" directive and goes on converting other keyword
> of bind4.
Because it is a useless directive. Any sane resolver rejects
the result returned from BIND 4 if the domain directive takes
effect.
> So is there really a directive called "domain" present in bind4 or
> bind4's named daemon don't parse the config file(named.boot) strictly.
>
> Because if I am having such a line in bind9 config file, it is simply
> throwing an error and failing to start as opposite to bind4 one which
> start amicably
BIND 9 is not BIND 4.
> thanks in advance
>
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Mark Andrews, ISC
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