Name
options
Syntax
options {
...
};
Blocks
Default value(s)
None
Introduced
- Date: 1997-05-06
- BIND version: 8.1.1
Deprecated
Still current as of 2025-11-24
Description
The options block does not have to be present in the BIND configuration file, if there are no options to set, or to change from their default values. Thus there is no default value for options as such, it being a container in which other statements are put, rather than defining anything itself.
The syntax shown above is legal, apart from the ellipsis, which are there to show that one or more statements may be contained within this block.
options {
};
on its own is equivalent to not defining the block at all; it causes no action to be performed.
ARM reference
This statement is defined in the Administrator Reference manual (ARM) here