@INDOT_U@NDC(@SYS_OPS_EXT_U@)        LOCAL       @INDOT_U@NDC(@SYS_OPS_EXT_U@)

NAME
     ndc - name daemon control program

SYNOPSIS
     ndc [-c _______] [-l _________] [-p _______] [-d] [-q] [-s] [-t]
         [_______]

DESCRIPTION
     This command allows the system administrator to control the operation of
     a name server.  If no _______ is given, ndc will prompt for commands un-
     til it reads EOF.

     Options are:

     -c _______  Specifies the rendezvous point for the control channel.  The
                 default is ____________ (a UNIX domain socket which is also
                 the server's default control channel).  If the desired con-
                 trol channel is a TCP/IP socket, then the format of the
                 _______ argument is ipaddr/port (for example, 127.0.0.1/54
                 would be TCP port 54 on the local host.)

     -l _________
                 This option will bind(2) the client side of the control chan-
                 nel to a specific address.  Servers can be configured to re-
                 ject connections which do not come from specific addresses.
                 The format is the same as for _______ (see above).

     -p _______  For backward compatibility with older name servers, ndc is
                 able to use UNIX signals for control communications.  This
                 capability is optional in modern name servers and will disap-
                 pear altogether at some future time.  Note that the available
                 _______ set is narrower when the signal interface is used.  A
                 likely _______ argument would be something like
                 __________________.

     -d          Turns on debugging output, which is of interest mainly to de-
                 velopers.

     -q          Suppresses prompts and result text.

     -s          Suppresses nonfatal error announcements.

     -t          Turns on protocol and system tracing, useful in installation
                 debugging.

COMMANDS
     Several commands are built into ndc, but the full set of commands sup-
     ported by the name server is dynamic and should be discovered using the
     ____ command (see below).  Builtin commands are:

     _____       Provides help for builtin commands.

     _____       Exit from ndc command interpreter.

     ______      Toggle tracing (see --t description above).

     ______      Toggle debugging (see -d description above).

     ______      Toggle quietude (see -q description above).

     _______     Toggle silence (see -s description above).

NOTES
     If running in _______ mode, any arguments to _____ and _______ commands
     are passed to the new @INDOT@named on its command line.  If running in
     _______ mode, there is no _____ command and the _______ command just
     tells the name server to execvp(2) itself.

AUTHOR
     Paul Vixie (Internet Software Consortium)

SEE ALSO
     @INDOT@named(@SYS_OPS_EXT@),

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