]> March 1, 2012 b10-auth 8 BIND10 b10-auth Authoritative DNS server 2010-2012 Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. ("ISC") b10-auth -n -v The b10-auth daemon provides the BIND 10 authoritative DNS server. Normally it is started by the bind108 boss process. This daemon communicates with other BIND 10 components over a b10-msgq8 C-Channel connection. If this connection is not established, b10-auth will exit. It receives its configurations from b10-cfgmgr8. The arguments are as follows: -n Do not cache answers in memory. The default is to use the cache for faster responses. The cache keeps the most recent 30,000 answers (positive and negative) in memory for 30 seconds (instead of querying the data source, such as SQLite3 database, each time). -v Enabled verbose mode. This enables diagnostic messages to STDERR. The configurable settings are: database_file defines the path to the SQLite3 zone file when using the sqlite datasource. The default is /usr/local/var/bind10-devel/zone.sqlite3. datasources configures data sources. The list items include: type to optionally choose the data source type (such as memory); class to optionally select the class (it defaults to IN); and zones to define the file path name and the origin (default domain). By default, this is empty. In this development version, currently this is only used for the memory data source. Only the IN class is supported at this time. By default, the memory data source is disabled. Also, currently the zone file must be canonical such as generated by named-compilezone -D. listen_on is a list of addresses and ports for b10-auth to listen on. The list items are the address string and port number. By default, b10-auth listens on port 53 on the IPv6 (::) and IPv4 (0.0.0.0) wildcard addresses. statistics-interval is the timer interval in seconds for b10-auth to share its statistics information to b10-stats8. Statistics updates can be disabled by setting this to 0. The default is 60. The configuration commands are: loadzone tells b10-auth to load or reload a zone file. The arguments include: class which optionally defines the class (it defaults to IN); origin is the domain name of the zone; and datasrc optionally defines the type of datasource (it defaults to memory). In this development version, currently this only supports the IN class and the memory data source. sendstats tells b10-auth to send its statistics data to b10-stats8 immediately. shutdown exits b10-auth. This has an optional pid argument to select the process ID to stop. (Note that the BIND 10 boss process may restart this service if configured.) The statistics data collected by the b10-stats daemon for Auth include: queries.tcp Total count of queries received by the b10-auth server over TCP since startup. queries.udp Total count of queries received by the b10-auth server over UDP since startup. /usr/local/var/bind10-devel/zone.sqlite3 — Location for the SQLite3 zone database when database_file configuration is not defined. b10-cfgmgr8 , b10-loadzone8 , b10-msgq8 , b10-stats8 , b10-zonemgr8 , bind108 , BIND 10 Guide. The b10-auth daemon was first coded in October 2009.