- PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
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<title>BIND 9 Administrator Reference Manual</title>
Dynamic update is enabled by including an
<command>allow-update</command>, <command>update-policy</command>
clause in the <command>zone</command> statement, or by setting the
- <command>dynamic</command> option to <userinput>yes</userinput>
- and creating a <filename>ddns.key</filename> file (see
- <command>ddns-confgen</command>.)
+ <command>ddns-autconf</command> option to <userinput>yes</userinput>.
</para>
<para>
- If the zone's <command>dynamic</command> option is set to
- <userinput>yes</userinput>, and if a <filename>ddns.key</filename>
- file exists and contains a valid TSIG key, and if no other dynamic
- update policy has been set for the zone, then updates to the zone
- will be permitted for the key <filename>ddns.key</filename>.
+ If the zone's <command>ddns-autoconf</command> option is set to
+ <userinput>yes</userinput>, then updates to the zone
+ will be permitted for the key <filename>ddns.key</filename>,
+ which will be generated by <command>named</command> at startup.
</para>
<para>
</varlistentry>
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- <term><command>dynamic</command></term>
+ <term><command>ddns-autoconf</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>
If this flag is set to <userinput>yes</userinput> in
- a master zone, <command>named</command> will
- automatically generate a TSIG session key for use
+ a master zone, the zone will be set to allow dynamic
+ updates using a TSIG session key generated by
+ <command>named</command> and stored in a file for use
by <command>nsupdate -l</command> on the local system,
- and the zone will be marked to allow dynamic updates
- using this key.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>