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The Concise Guide to DNS and BIND

ISBN: 0789722739
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 1999
Pages: 183

Authors: Nicolai Langfeldt

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• Main Page
• Table of content
• Copyright
• About the Author
• About the Technical Editor
• Acknowledgments
• Tell Us What You Think
• Introduction
• About This Book
• The Internet Before DNS
• DNS to the Rescue
• The Versions of BIND
• If It s Worth Doing, It s Worth Doing Right
• Part I: Basic DNS
• Chapter 1. DNS Concepts
• DNS Is a Hierarchic, Distributed Database
• What Is a Domain?
• Zones and Delegation
• Reverse Zones
• Duplication and Distribution of Zones
• How Resolution Works
• DNS as a Tree
• Chapter 2. DNS in Practice
• The BIND Software
• Configuring BIND
• Testing It All
• Resolver Setup
• A Zone
• Subdomains and Delegation
• Reverse Delegations for Classless Nets
• Secondary Servers
• NOTIFY
• Chapter 3. Maintenance and Enhancements
• More Practical Details
• Maintaining and Changing Zones
• DNS Round Robin and Load Distribution
• The Trouble with CNAME Records
• Wildcard Records
• Logs and Debugging
• Adding More Domains
• Contingency Planning
• Practical Uses of Forwarding
• Maintaining the root.hints File
• Chapter 4. Getting a Domain
• Top-Level Domains and Their Owners
• Getting the Domain
• Paying for Everything
• Part II: Advanced DNS
• Chapter 5. Using Dig and nslookup
• Dig
• nslookup
• Chapter 6. Troubleshooting DNS
• Staying Out of Trouble
• Network Problems
• Delegation Problems
• Reverse Lookup Problems
• Masters, Slaves, and Serial Numbers
• Caching and TTLs
• Zone Data Mistakes
• The Log File(s)
• Chapter 7. The DNS Tool Chest
• The Internet
• Maintenance Tools
• Quality Control
• Chapter 8. Security Concerns
• About Security
• How Secure Is DNS and BIND?
• Resource Use
• chroot and Least Privilege
• Query ID Pool
• Hiding Your BIND Version
• BIND 9 and DNSSEC
• DNS on Firewalls
• Firewall Rules and DNS
• Split DNS, NAT, and Network Hiding
• Chapter 9. Dynamic DNS
• Of RRsets
• Of Masters and Slaves
• Accepting and Doing Updates
• Slave Server Issues
• Reverse Zones
• A One Host Zone
• DHCP
• Chapter 10. DNS and Dial-Up Connections
• Moderating BIND
• Cutting Off BIND
• Chapter 11. DNS on a Closed Network
• In a Simple Network
• Internal Rootservers
• Slave and Cache Servers
• Structuring Your DNS
• Chapter 12. Interfacing DNS in Programs
• The UNIX Resolver
• DNS from Perl
• DNS from Python
• DNS in Shell Scripts
• Asynchronous Resolving
• Chapter 13. Resource Records
• RRs in Current Use
• Experimental RRs
• Obsolete RRs
• Part III: About BIND
• Chapter 14. A Guide to BIND 4
• Migrating from BIND 4 to BIND 8
• ndc in BIND 4
• Configuring BIND 4
• Miscellaneous
• Chapter 15. Compiling and Maintaining BIND
• About BIND
• Getting BIND
• Keeping It Current
• Compiling BIND
• Installing BIND
• Customizing for Chrooted Environments
• Chapter 16. BIND 9
• The Goals of BIND 9
• Why Use BIND 9?
• Compiling BIND 9
• The Documentation
• Running BIND 9
• New Resource Limits
• Views
• New RRs
• Scalability
• Security Enhancements
• IPv6 Support
• Chapter 17. Miscellany
• How ncd Works
• Address Sorting
• Checknames, Legal Hostnames
• The Limits of BIND
• The Housekeeping of BIND
• The Rest of the Options
• Part IV: Appendixes
• Appendix A. Named.Conf Man Page
• NAMED.CONF(5) System Programmer s Manual NAMED.CONF(5)
• Name
• named.confconfiguration file for named(8)
• Converting from BIND 4.9.x
• Address Match Lists
• The Logging Statement
• The Options Statement
• The Zone Statement
• The acl Statement
• The key Statement
• The trusted-keys Statement
• The server Statement
• The controls Statement
• The include Statement
• Examples
• Files
• See Also
• Appendix B. Bibliography
• Books
• RFCs
• Index
• Index SYMBOL
• Index A
• Index B
• Index C
• Index D
• Index E
• Index F
• Index G
• Index H
• Index I
• Index J
• Index K
• Index L
• Index M
• Index N
• Index O
• Index P
• Index Q
• Index R
• Index S
• Index T
• Index U
• Index V
• Index W
• Index X