in.named, named Internet Domain Name Server

Synopsis

in.named [-d debuglevel][-q][-r][-p remote |local-port]
  [-w dirname][[-b | -c] bootfile]

Description

The in.named daemon is the Internet domain nameserver. in.named spawns the named-xfer process whenever it needs to perform a zone transfer. See named-xfer(1M).

The in.named nameservice is used by hosts on the Internet to provide access to the Internet distributed naming database. See RFC 1034 and RFC 1035 for more information on the Internet domain name system.

With no arguments, in.named reads the default configuration file /etc/named.conf for any initial data and listens for queries. Any additional arguments beyond those shown in the "Synopsis" section are interpreted as the names of boot ...

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