A number of tools are available for diagnostics, administration and monitoring of NAMED. These tools are listed below. You will find a description of them on your server under /opt/TCP-IP-SV/dns /readme or under /opt/TCP-IP-SV/dns-named/readme.
Diagnostic tools
dig (domain information groper)
Command line tool for retrieving information on the domain name servers
host
Command line tool for querying Internet host names
nslookup
Command line tool for querying domain name servers on the Internet. nslookup will not be developed any further. In future the dig tool should be used instead.
Administration tools
rndc (remote name daemon control)
Tool for monitoring name server operation
rndc-confgen
Utility for generating the rndc.conf file
A detailed description of these tools is provided in the “BIND9 Administrator Reference Manual” of the Internet Software Consortium.