B.4 Miscellaneous configuration options.

log

(string) The name daemon should log via the syslog facility specified, which may be `LOG_DAEMON' or any of `LOG_LOCAL0' through `LOG_LOCAL7'. If the argument is `stderr' or `stdout', program output will go to that stream only. If the argument is a filename, program output will go to that file.

pidfile

(string) The mydns program will write its PID to this file on startup.

timeout

(integer) Number of seconds after which queries should time out.

multicpu

(integer) Number of processors in your system.

allow-axfr

(boolean) Should DNS-based zone transfers be enabled?

allow-tcp

(boolean) Should TCP queries be allowed? Use of this option is usually not recommended. However, TCP queries should be enabled if you think your server will be serving out answers larger than 512 bytes.

ignore-minimum

(boolean) Should MyDNS ignore the minimum TTL specified in the SOA record for each zone?

soa-table

(string) Name of the table containing SOA records.

rr-table

(string) Name of the table containing resource record data.

soa-where

(string) An additional SQL `WHERE' clause to use when retrieving records from the soa table (see section 3.1 The `soa' table).

rr-where

(string) An additional SQL `WHERE' clause to use when retrieving records from the rr table (see section 3.2 The `rr' table).

recursive

(string) Forward recursive requests to a DNS server at this address and return its response to the client.