diff --git a/perl-xCAT/xCAT/Schema.pm b/perl-xCAT/xCAT/Schema.pm
index 02760f105..0bb0b52d9 100755
--- a/perl-xCAT/xCAT/Schema.pm
+++ b/perl-xCAT/xCAT/Schema.pm
@@ -1057,6 +1057,7 @@ passed as argument rather than by table value',
 "              requests it does not know to these servers. Note that the DNS servers on the\n" .
 "              service nodes will ignore this value and always be configured to forward \n" .
 "              to the management node.\n\n" .
+" emptyzonesenable: (yes or no). This is to set empty-zones-enable value in named.conf options section. \n\n"
 " master:  The hostname of the xCAT management node, as known by the nodes.\n\n" .
 " nameservers:  A comma delimited list of DNS servers that each node in the cluster should\n" .
 "               use. This value will end up in the nameserver settings of the\n" .
diff --git a/xCAT-server/lib/xcat/plugins/ddns.pm b/xCAT-server/lib/xcat/plugins/ddns.pm
index 026e55bd8..903c3aea5 100644
--- a/xCAT-server/lib/xcat/plugins/ddns.pm
+++ b/xCAT-server/lib/xcat/plugins/ddns.pm
@@ -587,6 +587,18 @@ sub process_request {
         $ctx->{forwarders} = \@forwarders;
     }
 
+    my @options = xCAT::TableUtils->get_site_attribute("emptyzonesenable");
+    my $empty_zones = $options[0];
+    if (defined($empty_zones)) {
+        if ($empty_zones =~ /^yes$|^no$/) {
+            $ctx->{empty_zones_enable} = $empty_zones;
+        } else {
+            my $rsp;
+            push @{ $rsp->{data} }, "emptyzonesenable from xCAT site table should be yes or no.";
+            xCAT::MsgUtils->message("E", $rsp, $callback);
+            return; 
+        }
+    }
     my @slave_ips;
     my $dns_slaves = get_dns_slave();
     if (scalar @$dns_slaves) {
@@ -1098,6 +1110,8 @@ sub update_namedconf {
                             push @newnamed, "\t\t" . $_ . ";\n";
                         }
                         push @newnamed, "\t};\n";
+                    } elsif ($ctx->{empty_zones_enable} and $line =~ /empty-zones-enable/) {
+                        push @newnamed, "\tempty-zones-enable " . $ctx->{empty_zones_enable} . ";\n";
                     } elsif ($ctx->{slaves} and $line =~ /allow-transfer \{/) {
                         push @newnamed, "\tallow-transfer \{\n";
                         $skip = 1;
@@ -1237,6 +1251,10 @@ sub update_namedconf {
             push @newnamed, "\t};\n";
         }
 
+        if ($ctx->{empty_zones_enable}){
+            push @newnamed, "\tempty-zones-enable " . $ctx->{empty_zones_enable} . ";\n";
+        }
+
         if ($slave) {
             push @newnamed, "\tallow-transfer { any; };\n";
         } else {