Manual for Bind-9.5 or 9.6

Fri Jan 23 16:21:36 UTC 2009

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 11:06:16AM -0500,
 Peter Fraser <petros.fraser at gmail.com> wrote 
 a message of 12 lines which said:

> Can someone please tell me where the manuals are, better yet PDF
> versions of it.

It seems ISC does not put them online but they are included with
BIND. To quote the ISC Web site:

DOCUMENTATION
The BIND 9 Administrator Reference Manual is included with the source distribution in DocBook XML and HTML format, in the doc/arm directory.

Some of the programs in the BIND 9 distribution have man pages under the doc/man directory. In particular, the command line options of "named" are documented in doc/man/bind/named.8. There is now also a set of man pages for the lwres library. 