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15042bad71a157e77c0a1893759f9027b2673a1eDaniel Calegari<h2>Name</h2>
15042bad71a157e77c0a1893759f9027b2673a1eDaniel Calegari<p><span class="application">named</span> &#8212; Internet domain name server</p>
15042bad71a157e77c0a1893759f9027b2673a1eDaniel Calegari</div>
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15042bad71a157e77c0a1893759f9027b2673a1eDaniel Calegari<h2>Synopsis</h2>
15042bad71a157e77c0a1893759f9027b2673a1eDaniel Calegari<div class="cmdsynopsis"><p><code class="command">named</code> [<code class="option">-4</code>] [<code class="option">-6</code>] [<code class="option">-c <em class="replaceable"><code>config-file</code></em></code>] [<code class="option">-d <em class="replaceable"><code>debug-level</code></em></code>] [<code class="option">-D <em class="replaceable"><code>string</code></em></code>] [<code class="option">-E <em class="replaceable"><code>engine-name</code></em></code>] [<code class="option">-f</code>] [<code class="option">-g</code>] [<code class="option">-m <em class="replaceable"><code>flag</code></em></code>] [<code class="option">-n <em class="replaceable"><code>#cpus</code></em></code>] [<code class="option">-p <em class="replaceable"><code>port</code></em></code>] [<code class="option">-s</code>] [<code class="option">-S <em class="replaceable"><code>#max-socks</code></em></code>] [<code class="option">-t <em class="replaceable"><code>directory</code></em></code>] [<code class="option">-U <em class="replaceable"><code>#listeners</code></em></code>] [<code class="option">-u <em class="replaceable"><code>user</code></em></code>] [<code class="option">-v</code>] [<code class="option">-V</code>] [<code class="option">-x <em class="replaceable"><code>cache-file</code></em></code>]</p></div>
3d3889e0cefcdce9b3f43c53aaa201943ac2e895Jonathan von Schroeder</div>
8e8b5741985d2dcb109a000757b34fe84098e978Daniel Calegari<div class="refsect1" lang="en">
15042bad71a157e77c0a1893759f9027b2673a1eDaniel Calegari<a name="id2643886"></a><h2>DESCRIPTION</h2>
15042bad71a157e77c0a1893759f9027b2673a1eDaniel Calegari<p><span><strong class="command">named</strong></span>
15042bad71a157e77c0a1893759f9027b2673a1eDaniel Calegari is a Domain Name System (DNS) server,
15042bad71a157e77c0a1893759f9027b2673a1eDaniel Calegari part of the BIND 9 distribution from ISC. For more
15042bad71a157e77c0a1893759f9027b2673a1eDaniel Calegari information on the DNS, see RFCs 1033, 1034, and 1035.
15042bad71a157e77c0a1893759f9027b2673a1eDaniel Calegari </p>
15042bad71a157e77c0a1893759f9027b2673a1eDaniel Calegari<p>
3d3889e0cefcdce9b3f43c53aaa201943ac2e895Jonathan von Schroeder When invoked without arguments, <span><strong class="command">named</strong></span>
3d3889e0cefcdce9b3f43c53aaa201943ac2e895Jonathan von Schroeder will
15042bad71a157e77c0a1893759f9027b2673a1eDaniel Calegari read the default configuration file
15042bad71a157e77c0a1893759f9027b2673a1eDaniel Calegari <code class="filename">/etc/named.conf</code>, read any initial
15042bad71a157e77c0a1893759f9027b2673a1eDaniel Calegari data, and listen for queries.
15042bad71a157e77c0a1893759f9027b2673a1eDaniel Calegari </p>
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15042bad71a157e77c0a1893759f9027b2673a1eDaniel Calegari<div class="refsect1" lang="en">
3d3889e0cefcdce9b3f43c53aaa201943ac2e895Jonathan von Schroeder<a name="id2643917"></a><h2>OPTIONS</h2>
3d3889e0cefcdce9b3f43c53aaa201943ac2e895Jonathan von Schroeder<div class="variablelist"><dl>
3d3889e0cefcdce9b3f43c53aaa201943ac2e895Jonathan von Schroeder<dt><span class="term">-4</span></dt>
3980fec332f0cc3d65051ce86f11c357686ed784Daniel Calegari<dd><p>
3980fec332f0cc3d65051ce86f11c357686ed784Daniel Calegari Use IPv4 only even if the host machine is capable of IPv6.
3980fec332f0cc3d65051ce86f11c357686ed784Daniel Calegari <code class="option">-4</code> and <code class="option">-6</code> are mutually
3d3889e0cefcdce9b3f43c53aaa201943ac2e895Jonathan von Schroeder exclusive.
3980fec332f0cc3d65051ce86f11c357686ed784Daniel Calegari </p></dd>
3980fec332f0cc3d65051ce86f11c357686ed784Daniel Calegari<dt><span class="term">-6</span></dt>
8e8b5741985d2dcb109a000757b34fe84098e978Daniel Calegari<dd><p>
8e8b5741985d2dcb109a000757b34fe84098e978Daniel Calegari Use IPv6 only even if the host machine is capable of IPv4.
3980fec332f0cc3d65051ce86f11c357686ed784Daniel Calegari <code class="option">-4</code> and <code class="option">-6</code> are mutually
3d3889e0cefcdce9b3f43c53aaa201943ac2e895Jonathan von Schroeder exclusive.
3980fec332f0cc3d65051ce86f11c357686ed784Daniel Calegari </p></dd>
3980fec332f0cc3d65051ce86f11c357686ed784Daniel Calegari<dt><span class="term">-c <em class="replaceable"><code>config-file</code></em></span></dt>
3d3889e0cefcdce9b3f43c53aaa201943ac2e895Jonathan von Schroeder<dd><p>
3d3889e0cefcdce9b3f43c53aaa201943ac2e895Jonathan von Schroeder Use <em class="replaceable"><code>config-file</code></em> as the
3d3889e0cefcdce9b3f43c53aaa201943ac2e895Jonathan von Schroeder configuration file instead of the default,
3980fec332f0cc3d65051ce86f11c357686ed784Daniel Calegari <code class="filename">/etc/named.conf</code>. To
3d3889e0cefcdce9b3f43c53aaa201943ac2e895Jonathan von Schroeder ensure that reloading the configuration file continues
3d3889e0cefcdce9b3f43c53aaa201943ac2e895Jonathan von Schroeder to work after the server has changed its working
3d3889e0cefcdce9b3f43c53aaa201943ac2e895Jonathan von Schroeder directory due to to a possible
3d3889e0cefcdce9b3f43c53aaa201943ac2e895Jonathan von Schroeder <code class="option">directory</code> option in the configuration
3d3889e0cefcdce9b3f43c53aaa201943ac2e895Jonathan von Schroeder file, <em class="replaceable"><code>config-file</code></em> should be
3d3889e0cefcdce9b3f43c53aaa201943ac2e895Jonathan von Schroeder an absolute pathname.
3d3889e0cefcdce9b3f43c53aaa201943ac2e895Jonathan von Schroeder </p></dd>
3d3889e0cefcdce9b3f43c53aaa201943ac2e895Jonathan von Schroeder<dt><span class="term">-d <em class="replaceable"><code>debug-level</code></em></span></dt>
3d3889e0cefcdce9b3f43c53aaa201943ac2e895Jonathan von Schroeder<dd><p>
3d3889e0cefcdce9b3f43c53aaa201943ac2e895Jonathan von Schroeder Set the daemon's debug level to <em class="replaceable"><code>debug-level</code></em>.
3d3889e0cefcdce9b3f43c53aaa201943ac2e895Jonathan von Schroeder Debugging traces from <span><strong class="command">named</strong></span> become
3d3889e0cefcdce9b3f43c53aaa201943ac2e895Jonathan von Schroeder more verbose as the debug level increases.
15042bad71a157e77c0a1893759f9027b2673a1eDaniel Calegari </p></dd>
15042bad71a157e77c0a1893759f9027b2673a1eDaniel Calegari<dt><span class="term">-D <em class="replaceable"><code>string</code></em></span></dt>
15042bad71a157e77c0a1893759f9027b2673a1eDaniel Calegari<dd><p>
15042bad71a157e77c0a1893759f9027b2673a1eDaniel Calegari Specifies a string that is used to identify a instance of
15042bad71a157e77c0a1893759f9027b2673a1eDaniel Calegari <span><strong class="command">named</strong></span> in a process listing. The contents
3d3889e0cefcdce9b3f43c53aaa201943ac2e895Jonathan von Schroeder of <em class="replaceable"><code>string</code></em> are
3d3889e0cefcdce9b3f43c53aaa201943ac2e895Jonathan von Schroeder not examined.
15042bad71a157e77c0a1893759f9027b2673a1eDaniel Calegari </p></dd>
15042bad71a157e77c0a1893759f9027b2673a1eDaniel Calegari<dt><span class="term">-E <em class="replaceable"><code>engine-name</code></em></span></dt>
15042bad71a157e77c0a1893759f9027b2673a1eDaniel Calegari<dd><p>
15042bad71a157e77c0a1893759f9027b2673a1eDaniel Calegari Use a crypto hardware (OpenSSL engine) for the crypto operations
15042bad71a157e77c0a1893759f9027b2673a1eDaniel Calegari it supports, for instance re-signing with private keys from
15042bad71a157e77c0a1893759f9027b2673a1eDaniel Calegari a secure key store. When compiled with PKCS#11 support
15042bad71a157e77c0a1893759f9027b2673a1eDaniel Calegari <em class="replaceable"><code>engine-name</code></em>
15042bad71a157e77c0a1893759f9027b2673a1eDaniel Calegari defaults to pkcs11, the empty name resets it to no engine.
15042bad71a157e77c0a1893759f9027b2673a1eDaniel Calegari </p></dd>
15042bad71a157e77c0a1893759f9027b2673a1eDaniel Calegari<dt><span class="term">-f</span></dt>
15042bad71a157e77c0a1893759f9027b2673a1eDaniel Calegari<dd><p>
15042bad71a157e77c0a1893759f9027b2673a1eDaniel Calegari Run the server in the foreground (i.e. do not daemonize).
15042bad71a157e77c0a1893759f9027b2673a1eDaniel Calegari </p></dd>
3d3889e0cefcdce9b3f43c53aaa201943ac2e895Jonathan von Schroeder<dt><span class="term">-g</span></dt>
8e8b5741985d2dcb109a000757b34fe84098e978Daniel Calegari<dd><p>
8e8b5741985d2dcb109a000757b34fe84098e978Daniel Calegari Run the server in the foreground and force all logging
15042bad71a157e77c0a1893759f9027b2673a1eDaniel Calegari to <code class="filename">stderr</code>.
15042bad71a157e77c0a1893759f9027b2673a1eDaniel Calegari </p></dd>
15042bad71a157e77c0a1893759f9027b2673a1eDaniel Calegari<dt><span class="term">-m <em class="replaceable"><code>flag</code></em></span></dt>
15042bad71a157e77c0a1893759f9027b2673a1eDaniel Calegari<dd><p>
15042bad71a157e77c0a1893759f9027b2673a1eDaniel Calegari Turn on memory usage debugging flags. Possible flags are
8e8b5741985d2dcb109a000757b34fe84098e978Daniel Calegari <em class="replaceable"><code>usage</code></em>,
8e8b5741985d2dcb109a000757b34fe84098e978Daniel Calegari <em class="replaceable"><code>trace</code></em>,
8e8b5741985d2dcb109a000757b34fe84098e978Daniel Calegari <em class="replaceable"><code>record</code></em>,
8e8b5741985d2dcb109a000757b34fe84098e978Daniel Calegari <em class="replaceable"><code>size</code></em>, and
8e8b5741985d2dcb109a000757b34fe84098e978Daniel Calegari <em class="replaceable"><code>mctx</code></em>.
8e8b5741985d2dcb109a000757b34fe84098e978Daniel Calegari These correspond to the ISC_MEM_DEBUGXXXX flags described in
8e8b5741985d2dcb109a000757b34fe84098e978Daniel Calegari <code class="filename">&lt;isc/mem.h&gt;</code>.
8e8b5741985d2dcb109a000757b34fe84098e978Daniel Calegari </p></dd>
8e8b5741985d2dcb109a000757b34fe84098e978Daniel Calegari<dt><span class="term">-n <em class="replaceable"><code>#cpus</code></em></span></dt>
15042bad71a157e77c0a1893759f9027b2673a1eDaniel Calegari<dd><p>
8e8b5741985d2dcb109a000757b34fe84098e978Daniel Calegari Create <em class="replaceable"><code>#cpus</code></em> worker threads
8e8b5741985d2dcb109a000757b34fe84098e978Daniel Calegari to take advantage of multiple CPUs. If not specified,
8e8b5741985d2dcb109a000757b34fe84098e978Daniel Calegari <span><strong class="command">named</strong></span> will try to determine the
3d3889e0cefcdce9b3f43c53aaa201943ac2e895Jonathan von Schroeder number of CPUs present and create one thread per CPU.
8e8b5741985d2dcb109a000757b34fe84098e978Daniel Calegari If it is unable to determine the number of CPUs, a
8e8b5741985d2dcb109a000757b34fe84098e978Daniel Calegari single worker thread will be created.
8e8b5741985d2dcb109a000757b34fe84098e978Daniel Calegari </p></dd>
1b17f3f3bda4040576228af27049e10ccb42aa25Daniel Calegari<dt><span class="term">-p <em class="replaceable"><code>port</code></em></span></dt>
1b17f3f3bda4040576228af27049e10ccb42aa25Daniel Calegari<dd><p>
1b17f3f3bda4040576228af27049e10ccb42aa25Daniel Calegari Listen for queries on port <em class="replaceable"><code>port</code></em>. If not
8e8b5741985d2dcb109a000757b34fe84098e978Daniel Calegari specified, the default is port 53.
15042bad71a157e77c0a1893759f9027b2673a1eDaniel Calegari </p></dd>
8e8b5741985d2dcb109a000757b34fe84098e978Daniel Calegari<dt><span class="term">-s</span></dt>
15042bad71a157e77c0a1893759f9027b2673a1eDaniel Calegari<dd>
15042bad71a157e77c0a1893759f9027b2673a1eDaniel Calegari<p>
15042bad71a157e77c0a1893759f9027b2673a1eDaniel Calegari Write memory usage statistics to <code class="filename">stdout</code> on exit.
15042bad71a157e77c0a1893759f9027b2673a1eDaniel Calegari </p>
3d3889e0cefcdce9b3f43c53aaa201943ac2e895Jonathan von Schroeder<div class="note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;">
3d3889e0cefcdce9b3f43c53aaa201943ac2e895Jonathan von Schroeder<h3 class="title">Note</h3>
3d3889e0cefcdce9b3f43c53aaa201943ac2e895Jonathan von Schroeder<p>
3d3889e0cefcdce9b3f43c53aaa201943ac2e895Jonathan von Schroeder This option is mainly of interest to BIND 9 developers
3d3889e0cefcdce9b3f43c53aaa201943ac2e895Jonathan von Schroeder and may be removed or changed in a future release.
3d3889e0cefcdce9b3f43c53aaa201943ac2e895Jonathan von Schroeder </p>
3d3889e0cefcdce9b3f43c53aaa201943ac2e895Jonathan von Schroeder</div>
93ee128951545036c48e1057e8c449b8dae3358cDaniel Calegari</dd>
15042bad71a157e77c0a1893759f9027b2673a1eDaniel Calegari<dt><span class="term">-S <em class="replaceable"><code>#max-socks</code></em></span></dt>
15042bad71a157e77c0a1893759f9027b2673a1eDaniel Calegari<dd>
15042bad71a157e77c0a1893759f9027b2673a1eDaniel Calegari<p>
15042bad71a157e77c0a1893759f9027b2673a1eDaniel Calegari Allow <span><strong class="command">named</strong></span> to use up to
15042bad71a157e77c0a1893759f9027b2673a1eDaniel Calegari <em class="replaceable"><code>#max-socks</code></em> sockets.
15042bad71a157e77c0a1893759f9027b2673a1eDaniel Calegari </p>
3d3889e0cefcdce9b3f43c53aaa201943ac2e895Jonathan von Schroeder<div class="warning" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;">
3d3889e0cefcdce9b3f43c53aaa201943ac2e895Jonathan von Schroeder<h3 class="title">Warning</h3>
15042bad71a157e77c0a1893759f9027b2673a1eDaniel Calegari<p>
15042bad71a157e77c0a1893759f9027b2673a1eDaniel Calegari This option should be unnecessary for the vast majority
15042bad71a157e77c0a1893759f9027b2673a1eDaniel Calegari of users.
15042bad71a157e77c0a1893759f9027b2673a1eDaniel Calegari The use of this option could even be harmful because the
0fa27dd041f2c5affd7d4d6ad04e568a0e49737cDaniel Calegari specified value may exceed the limitation of the
0fa27dd041f2c5affd7d4d6ad04e568a0e49737cDaniel Calegari underlying system API.
0fa27dd041f2c5affd7d4d6ad04e568a0e49737cDaniel Calegari It is therefore set only when the default configuration
0fa27dd041f2c5affd7d4d6ad04e568a0e49737cDaniel Calegari causes exhaustion of file descriptors and the
0fa27dd041f2c5affd7d4d6ad04e568a0e49737cDaniel Calegari operational environment is known to support the
0fa27dd041f2c5affd7d4d6ad04e568a0e49737cDaniel Calegari specified number of sockets.
3d3889e0cefcdce9b3f43c53aaa201943ac2e895Jonathan von Schroeder Note also that the actual maximum number is normally a little
248bb54ca63b42c56eba7c6ccb11f92e9ff04f57Daniel Calegari fewer than the specified value because
3d3889e0cefcdce9b3f43c53aaa201943ac2e895Jonathan von Schroeder <span><strong class="command">named</strong></span> reserves some file descriptors
3d3889e0cefcdce9b3f43c53aaa201943ac2e895Jonathan von Schroeder for its internal use.
3d3889e0cefcdce9b3f43c53aaa201943ac2e895Jonathan von Schroeder </p>
3d3889e0cefcdce9b3f43c53aaa201943ac2e895Jonathan von Schroeder</div>
3d3889e0cefcdce9b3f43c53aaa201943ac2e895Jonathan von Schroeder</dd>
3d3889e0cefcdce9b3f43c53aaa201943ac2e895Jonathan von Schroeder<dt><span class="term">-t <em class="replaceable"><code>directory</code></em></span></dt>
0fa27dd041f2c5affd7d4d6ad04e568a0e49737cDaniel Calegari<dd>
248bb54ca63b42c56eba7c6ccb11f92e9ff04f57Daniel Calegari<p>Chroot
0fa27dd041f2c5affd7d4d6ad04e568a0e49737cDaniel Calegari to <em class="replaceable"><code>directory</code></em> after
0fa27dd041f2c5affd7d4d6ad04e568a0e49737cDaniel Calegari processing the command line arguments, but before
0fa27dd041f2c5affd7d4d6ad04e568a0e49737cDaniel Calegari reading the configuration file.
0fa27dd041f2c5affd7d4d6ad04e568a0e49737cDaniel Calegari </p>
0fa27dd041f2c5affd7d4d6ad04e568a0e49737cDaniel Calegari<div class="warning" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;">
0fa27dd041f2c5affd7d4d6ad04e568a0e49737cDaniel Calegari<h3 class="title">Warning</h3>
93ee128951545036c48e1057e8c449b8dae3358cDaniel Calegari<p>
0fa27dd041f2c5affd7d4d6ad04e568a0e49737cDaniel Calegari This option should be used in conjunction with the
0fa27dd041f2c5affd7d4d6ad04e568a0e49737cDaniel Calegari <code class="option">-u</code> option, as chrooting a process
0fa27dd041f2c5affd7d4d6ad04e568a0e49737cDaniel Calegari running as root doesn't enhance security on most
systems; the way <code class="function">chroot(2)</code> is
defined allows a process with root privileges to
escape a chroot jail.
</p>
</div>
</dd>
<dt><span class="term">-U <em class="replaceable"><code>#listeners</code></em></span></dt>
<dd><p>
Use <em class="replaceable"><code>#listeners</code></em>
worker threads to listen for incoming UDP packets on each
address. If not specified, <span><strong class="command">named</strong></span> will
use the number of detected CPUs. If <code class="option">-n</code>
has been set to a higher value than the number of CPUs,
then <code class="option">-U</code> may be increased as high as that
value, but no higher.
</p></dd>
<dt><span class="term">-u <em class="replaceable"><code>user</code></em></span></dt>
<dd>
<p>Setuid
to <em class="replaceable"><code>user</code></em> after completing
privileged operations, such as creating sockets that
listen on privileged ports.
</p>
<div class="note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;">
<h3 class="title">Note</h3>
<p>
On Linux, <span><strong class="command">named</strong></span> uses the kernel's
capability mechanism to drop all root privileges
except the ability to <code class="function">bind(2)</code> to
a
privileged port and set process resource limits.
Unfortunately, this means that the <code class="option">-u</code>
option only works when <span><strong class="command">named</strong></span> is
run
on kernel 2.2.18 or later, or kernel 2.3.99-pre3 or
later, since previous kernels did not allow privileges
to be retained after <code class="function">setuid(2)</code>.
</p>
</div>
</dd>
<dt><span class="term">-v</span></dt>
<dd><p>
Report the version number and exit.
</p></dd>
<dt><span class="term">-V</span></dt>
<dd><p>
Report the version number and build options, and exit.
</p></dd>
<dt><span class="term">-x <em class="replaceable"><code>cache-file</code></em></span></dt>
<dd>
<p>
Load data from <em class="replaceable"><code>cache-file</code></em> into the
cache of the default view.
</p>
<div class="warning" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;">
<h3 class="title">Warning</h3>
<p>
This option must not be used. It is only of interest
to BIND 9 developers and may be removed or changed in a
future release.
</p>
</div>
</dd>
</dl></div>
</div>
<div class="refsect1" lang="en">
<a name="id2680513"></a><h2>SIGNALS</h2>
<p>
In routine operation, signals should not be used to control
the nameserver; <span><strong class="command">rndc</strong></span> should be used
instead.
</p>
<div class="variablelist"><dl>
<dt><span class="term">SIGHUP</span></dt>
<dd><p>
Force a reload of the server.
</p></dd>
<dt><span class="term">SIGINT, SIGTERM</span></dt>
<dd><p>
Shut down the server.
</p></dd>
</dl></div>
<p>
The result of sending any other signals to the server is undefined.
</p>
</div>
<div class="refsect1" lang="en">
<a name="id2680563"></a><h2>CONFIGURATION</h2>
<p>
The <span><strong class="command">named</strong></span> configuration file is too complex
to describe in detail here. A complete description is provided
in the
<em class="citetitle">BIND 9 Administrator Reference Manual</em>.
</p>
<p>
<span><strong class="command">named</strong></span> inherits the <code class="function">umask</code>
(file creation mode mask) from the parent process. If files
created by <span><strong class="command">named</strong></span>, such as journal files,
need to have custom permissions, the <code class="function">umask</code>
should be set explicitly in the script used to start the
<span><strong class="command">named</strong></span> process.
</p>
</div>
<div class="refsect1" lang="en">
<a name="id2680612"></a><h2>FILES</h2>
<div class="variablelist"><dl>
<dt><span class="term"><code class="filename">/etc/named.conf</code></span></dt>
<dd><p>
The default configuration file.
</p></dd>
<dt><span class="term"><code class="filename">/var/run/named/named.pid</code></span></dt>
<dd><p>
The default process-id file.
</p></dd>
</dl></div>
</div>
<div class="refsect1" lang="en">
<a name="id2680656"></a><h2>SEE ALSO</h2>
<p><em class="citetitle">RFC 1033</em>,
<em class="citetitle">RFC 1034</em>,
<em class="citetitle">RFC 1035</em>,
<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">named-checkconf</span>(8)</span>,
<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">named-checkzone</span>(8)</span>,
<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">rndc</span>(8)</span>,
<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">lwresd</span>(8)</span>,
<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">named.conf</span>(5)</span>,
<em class="citetitle">BIND 9 Administrator Reference Manual</em>.
</p>
</div>
<div class="refsect1" lang="en">
<a name="id2680726"></a><h2>AUTHOR</h2>
<p><span class="corpauthor">Internet Systems Consortium</span>
</p>
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