update-policy only applies to, and may only appear in, zone clauses. This statement defines the rules by which DDNS updates may be carried. It may only be used with a key (TSIG or SIG(0)) which is used to cryptographically sign each update request. It is mutually exclusive with allow-update in any single zone clause. The statement may take the keyword local or an update-policy-rule structure. The keyword local is designed to simplify configuration of secure updates using a TSIG key and limits the update source only to localhost (loopback address, 127.0.0.1 or ::1), thus both nsupdate (or any other application using DDNS) and the name server being updated must reside on the same host.