/sys$common/syshlp/helplib.hlb TCPIP Services, BIND  *Conan The Librarian (sorry for the slow response - running on an old VAX)

    The Domain Name Service (DNS) is an Internet service that
    maintains and distributes information about Internet hosts. DNS
    consists of several databases that store host names and host IP
    addresses. With DNS, there is no central storage of data - no one
    server knows everything about all the Internet domains. In UNIX
    environments, DNS is implemented by the Berkeley Internet Name
    Domain (BIND) software.

    Compaq TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS implements a BIND server based
    on the Internet Software Consortium's (ISC) BIND 8.1.2. The BIND
    8.1.2 implementation provides new configuration options and a new
    format for configuring the BIND name server.

    In addition to standard BIND features, the Compaq TCP/IP Services
    for OpenVMS product provides cluster load balancing and round-
    robin scheduling.

    Configuring and managing BIND on your OpenVMS host involves the
    following tasks:

    o  Configuring the BIND resolver and name server using
       TCPIP$CONFIG

    o  Modifying the BIND configuration using SET CONFIGURATION
       commands or by editing the BIND 8 configuration file

    o  Setting up name servers to be: primary (master), secondary
       (slave), cache-only, and forwarder

    o  Populating the BIND server databases

    o  Displaying name server information

    o  Using NSLOOKUP to query a name server