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+++ b/FAQ.xml
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
-<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN"
- "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd" []>
<!--
- - Copyright (C) 2004-2010, 2013, 2014 Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. ("ISC")
+ - Copyright (C) 2004-2010, 2013-2016 Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. ("ISC")
- Copyright (C) 2000-2003 Internet Software Consortium.
-
- Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any
@@ -17,10 +15,9 @@
- PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
-->
-<!-- $Id: FAQ.xml,v 1.54 2010/01/19 23:48:55 tbox Exp $ -->
+<!-- Converted by db4-upgrade version 1.0 -->
+<article xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" version="5.0" class="faq">
-<article class="faq">
- <title>Frequently Asked Questions about BIND 9</title>
<articleinfo>
<copyright>
<year>2004</year>
@@ -32,6 +29,8 @@
<year>2010</year>
<year>2013</year>
<year>2014</year>
+ <year>2015</year>
+ <year>2016</year>
<holder>Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. ("ISC")</holder>
</copyright>
<copyright>
@@ -42,10 +41,10 @@
<holder>Internet Software Consortium.</holder>
</copyright>
</articleinfo>
- <qandaset defaultlabel='qanda'>
-
- <qandadiv><title>Compilation and Installation Questions</title>
-
+ <qandaset defaultlabel="qanda">
+
+ <qandadiv><title>Compilation and Installation Questions</title>
+
<qandaentry>
<question>
<para>
@@ -61,7 +60,7 @@
</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
-
+
<qandaentry>
<question>
<para>
@@ -70,7 +69,7 @@
</question>
<answer>
<para>
- Short Answer: No.
+ Short Answer: No.
</para>
<para>
Long Answer: There really isn't a default configuration which fits
@@ -93,9 +92,9 @@
</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
-
+
</qandadiv> <!-- Compilation and Installation Questions -->
-
+
<qandadiv><title>Configuration and Setup Questions</title>
<qandaentry>
@@ -125,7 +124,7 @@ example.com. 86400 IN SOA ns hostmaster ( 1 3600 1800 1814400 3600 )</programlis
</informalexample>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
-
+
<qandaentry>
<!-- configuration -->
<question>
@@ -223,7 +222,7 @@ view "chaos" chaos {
<answer>
<para>
This may be a clock skew problem. Check that the the clocks
- on the client and server are properly synchronised (e.g.,
+ on the client and server are properly synchronized (e.g.,
using ntp).
</para>
</answer>
@@ -251,7 +250,7 @@ view "chaos" chaos {
</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
-
+
<qandaentry>
<question>
<para>
@@ -266,7 +265,7 @@ view "chaos" chaos {
</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
-
+
<qandaentry>
<question>
<para>
@@ -359,7 +358,7 @@ Slave 10.0.1.2:
</informalexample>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
-
+
<qandaentry>
<question>
<para>
@@ -392,7 +391,7 @@ named-checkzone example.com tmp</programlisting>
</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
-
+
<qandaentry>
<question>
<para>
@@ -416,7 +415,7 @@ named-checkzone example.com tmp</programlisting>
</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
-
+
<qandaentry>
<question>
<para>
@@ -501,7 +500,7 @@ Master 10.0.1.1:
You are running chrooted (-t) and have not supplied local timezone
information in the chroot area.
</para>
- <simplelist>
+ <simplelist type="vert">
<member>FreeBSD: /etc/localtime</member>
<member>Solaris: /etc/TIMEZONE and /usr/share/lib/zoneinfo</member>
<member>OSF: /etc/zoneinfo/localtime</member>
@@ -511,7 +510,7 @@ Master 10.0.1.1:
</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
-
+
<qandaentry>
<question>
<para>
@@ -551,7 +550,7 @@ Master 10.0.1.1:
</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
-
+
<qandaentry>
<question>
<para>
@@ -603,7 +602,7 @@ zone "example.net" {
</informalexample>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
-
+
<qandaentry>
<question>
<para>
@@ -694,9 +693,9 @@ server ::/0 { bogus yes; };
</programlisting>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
-
+
</qandadiv> <!-- Configuration and Setup Questions -->
-
+
<qandadiv><title>Operations Questions</title>
<qandaentry>
@@ -768,7 +767,7 @@ server ::/0 { bogus yes; };
</qandadiv> <!-- Operations Questions -->
<qandadiv><title>General Questions</title>
-
+
<qandaentry>
<question>
<para>
@@ -807,14 +806,13 @@ server ::/0 { bogus yes; };
of sending dynamic update requests to DNS servers without
being specifically configured to do so. If the update
requests are coming from a Windows 2000 machine, see
- <ulink
- url="http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q246/8/04.asp">
- &lt;http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q246/8/04.asp&gt;</ulink>
+ <link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q246/8/04.asp">
+ &lt;http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q246/8/04.asp&gt;</link>
for information about how to turn them off.
</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
-
+
<qandaentry>
<question>
<para>
@@ -849,7 +847,7 @@ server ::/0 { bogus yes; };
</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
-
+
<qandaentry>
<question>
<para>
@@ -867,7 +865,7 @@ server ::/0 { bogus yes; };
</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
-
+
<qandaentry>
<question>
<para>
@@ -883,7 +881,7 @@ server ::/0 { bogus yes; };
</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
-
+
<qandaentry>
<question>
<para>
@@ -910,7 +908,7 @@ serial-query-rate 5; // default 20</programlisting>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
- <qandaentry>
+ <qandaentry>
<question>
<para>
I don't get RRSIG's returned when I use "dig +dnssec".
@@ -922,7 +920,7 @@ serial-query-rate 5; // default 20</programlisting>
</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
-
+
<qandaentry>
<question>
<para>
@@ -959,7 +957,7 @@ serial-query-rate 5; // default 20</programlisting>
usage rules and are leaking queries to the Internet. You
should establish your own zones for these addresses to prevent
you querying the Internet's name servers for these addresses.
- Please see <ulink url="http://as112.net/">&lt;http://as112.net/&gt;</ulink>
+ Please see <link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://as112.net/">&lt;http://as112.net/&gt;</link>
for details of the problems you are causing and the counter
measures that have had to be deployed.
</para>
@@ -1006,7 +1004,7 @@ empty:
</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
-
+
<qandaentry>
<question>
<para>
@@ -1083,9 +1081,9 @@ empty:
</qandaentry>
</qandadiv> <!-- General Questions -->
-
+
<qandadiv><title>Operating-System Specific Questions</title>
-
+
<qandadiv><title>HPUX</title>
<qandaentry>
@@ -1113,9 +1111,9 @@ configure: error: need either working unistd.h or sys/select.h</programlisting>
</qandadiv> <!-- HPUX -->
<qandadiv><title>Linux</title>
-
+
<qandaentry>
- <question>
+ <question>
<para>
Why do I get the following errors:
<programlisting>general: errno2result.c:109: unexpected error:
@@ -1129,7 +1127,7 @@ client: UDP client handler shutting down due to fatal receive error: unexpected
</para>
<para>
See:
- <ulink url="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-netdev&amp;m=113081708031466&amp;w=2">&lt;http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-netdev&amp;m=113081708031466&amp;w=2&gt;</ulink>
+ <link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-netdev&amp;m=113081708031466&amp;w=2">&lt;http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-netdev&amp;m=113081708031466&amp;w=2&gt;</link>
</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
@@ -1146,9 +1144,9 @@ client: UDP client handler shutting down due to fatal receive error: unexpected
non-blocking is ignored. It is reported that setting
xfrm_larval_drop to 1 helps but this may have negative side effects.
See:
-<ulink url="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=427629">&lt;https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=427629&gt;</ulink>
+<link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=427629">&lt;https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=427629&gt;</link>
and
-<ulink url="http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/12/4/260">&lt;http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/12/4/260&gt;</ulink>.
+<link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/12/4/260">&lt;http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/12/4/260&gt;</link>.
</para>
<para>
xfrm_larval_drop can be set to 1 by the following procedure:
@@ -1178,7 +1176,7 @@ echo "1" &gt; proc/sys/net/core/xfrm_larval_drop</programlisting>
</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
-
+
<qandaentry>
<question>
<para>
@@ -1197,7 +1195,7 @@ echo "1" &gt; proc/sys/net/core/xfrm_larval_drop</programlisting>
</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
-
+
<qandaentry>
<question>
<para>
@@ -1218,7 +1216,7 @@ modprobe capability</programlisting>
</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
-
+
<qandaentry>
<question>
<para>
@@ -1244,8 +1242,7 @@ modprobe capability</programlisting>
<para>
Red Hat have adopted the National Security Agency's
- SELinux security policy (see <ulink
- url="http://www.nsa.gov/selinux">&lt;http://www.nsa.gov/selinux&gt;</ulink>)
+ SELinux security policy (see <link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://www.nsa.gov/selinux">&lt;http://www.nsa.gov/selinux&gt;</link>)
and recommendations for BIND security , which are more
secure than running named in a chroot and make use of
the bind-chroot environment unnecessary .
@@ -1279,7 +1276,7 @@ $ROOTDIR/var/tmp
able to write or create files except in the directories
above, with SELinux in Enforcing mode.
</para>
-
+
<para>
So, to allow named to update slave or DDNS zone files,
it is best to locate them in $ROOTDIR/var/named/slaves,
@@ -1290,7 +1287,7 @@ zone "slave.zone." IN {
type slave;
file "slaves/slave.zone.db";
...
-};
+};
zone "ddns.zone." IN {
type master;
allow-updates {...};
@@ -1323,13 +1320,13 @@ options {
system-config-securitylevel GUI, using the 'setsebool'
command, or in /etc/selinux/targeted/booleans.
</para>
-
+
<para>
You can disable SELinux protection for named entirely by
setting the 'named_disable_trans=1' SELinux tunable boolean
parameter.
</para>
-
+
<para>
The SELinux named policy defines these SELinux contexts for named:
<informalexample>
@@ -1340,7 +1337,7 @@ named_cache_t: for files modifiable by named - $ROOTDIR/var/{tmp,named/{slaves,d
</programlisting>
</informalexample>
</para>
-
+
<para>
If you want to retain use of the SELinux policy for named,
and put named files in different locations, you can do
@@ -1358,7 +1355,7 @@ named_cache_t: for files modifiable by named - $ROOTDIR/var/{tmp,named/{slaves,d
</programlisting>
</informalexample>
</para>
-
+
<para>
To create a custom modifiable named data location, e.g.
'/var/log/named' for a log file, do:
@@ -1368,7 +1365,7 @@ named_cache_t: for files modifiable by named - $ROOTDIR/var/{tmp,named/{slaves,d
</programlisting>
</informalexample>
</para>
-
+
<para>
To create a custom zone file location, e.g. /root/zones/, do:
<informalexample>
@@ -1377,7 +1374,7 @@ named_cache_t: for files modifiable by named - $ROOTDIR/var/{tmp,named/{slaves,d
</programlisting>
</informalexample>
</para>
-
+
<para>
See these man-pages for more information : selinux(8),
named_selinux(8), chcon(1), setsebool(8)
@@ -1403,8 +1400,8 @@ named_cache_t: for files modifiable by named - $ROOTDIR/var/{tmp,named/{slaves,d
</question>
<answer>
<para>
- Ubuntu uses AppArmor <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppArmor">
- &lt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppArmor&gt;</ulink> in
+ Ubuntu uses AppArmor <link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppArmor">
+ &lt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppArmor&gt;</link> in
addition to normal file system permissions to protect the system.
</para>
<para>
@@ -1438,11 +1435,11 @@ proc /var/named/proc proc defaults 0 0</programlisting>
</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
-
+
</qandadiv> <!-- Linux -->
-
+
<qandadiv><title>Windows</title>
-
+
<qandaentry>
<question>
<para>
@@ -1463,7 +1460,7 @@ proc /var/named/proc proc defaults 0 0</programlisting>
</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
-
+
<qandaentry>
<question>
<para>
@@ -1489,11 +1486,11 @@ options {
</informalexample>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
-
+
</qandadiv> <!-- Windows -->
-
+
<qandadiv><title>FreeBSD</title>
-
+
<qandaentry>
<question>
<para>
@@ -1513,16 +1510,16 @@ rand_irqs="3 14 15"</programlisting>
</informalexample>
<para>
See also
- <ulink url="http://people.freebsd.org/~dougb/randomness.html">
- &lt;http://people.freebsd.org/~dougb/randomness.html&gt;</ulink>.
+ <link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://people.freebsd.org/~dougb/randomness.html">
+ &lt;http://people.freebsd.org/~dougb/randomness.html&gt;</link>.
</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
-
+
</qandadiv> <!-- FreeBSD -->
-
+
<qandadiv><title>Solaris</title>
-
+
<qandaentry>
<question>
<para>
@@ -1534,15 +1531,14 @@ rand_irqs="3 14 15"</programlisting>
Sun has a blog entry describing how to do this.
</para>
<para>
- <ulink
- url="http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/anay/Weblog?catname=%2FSolaris">
+ <link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/anay/Weblog?catname=%2FSolaris">
&lt;http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/anay/Weblog?catname=%2FSolaris&gt;
- </ulink>
+ </link>
</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
-
- </qandadiv>
+
+ </qandadiv> <!-- Solaris -->
<qandadiv><title>Apple Mac OS X</title>
@@ -1558,7 +1554,7 @@ rand_irqs="3 14 15"</programlisting>
</para>
<informalexample>
<programlisting>
-% sudo rndc-confgen > /etc/rndc.conf</programlisting>
+% sudo rndc-confgen &gt; /etc/rndc.conf</programlisting>
</informalexample>
<para>
Copy the key statement from /etc/rndc.conf into /etc/rndc.key, e.g.:
@@ -1606,8 +1602,8 @@ key "rndc-key" {
</answer>
</qandaentry>
- </qandadiv>
-
+ </qandadiv> <!-- Apple Mac OS X -->
+
</qandadiv> <!-- Operating-System Specific Questions -->
</qandaset>