5.8. Resources

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These are pointers to various DNS-oriented resources, grouped by DNS server software.

5.8.1. BIND Resources


BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Daemon)

The main web site is http://www.isc.org/. It includes full documentation on installing, configuring, and operating BIND.


BIND Administrator's Reference Manual (ARM)

This can be found at /usr/share/doc/bind9/arm/Bv9ARM.html on an OpenBSD system or a FreeBSD system that has the BIND 9 software installed overwriting the base installation. It is also available online at http://www.nominum.com/content/documents/bind9arm.pdf.


DNS and BIND, Fourth Edition, Paul Albitz and Cricket Liu (O'Reilly), 2001

This book includes some good overview material about how DNS works generally. But it is focused on BIND. If you are interested in djbdns, there is nothing in here about it.


DNS and BIND Cookbook, Cricket Liu (O'Reilly), 2002

This is a more tactical book that covers a lot of common usage scenarios and installation issues.


DNS on Windows Server 2003, Robbie Allen, Matt Larson, and Cricket Liu (O'Reilly), 2004

If you want to integrate BIND with a Windows environment and run it on a Windows server, this is a good reference for how to do that.

5.8.2. djbdns Resources


Daniel J. Bernstein's web site (http://cr.yp.to/)

All of Daniel J. Bernstein's software can be found at this web site. The daemon tools are at http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html, the ucspi-tcp tools are available at http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp.html, and djbdns itself is at http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html. The documentation, such as it is, is also there.

Bernstein has written a number of other programs that strive to be secure replacements for notoriously insecure programs. His qmail replacement for sendmail, tcpwrappers replacement for inetd, and various other utilities are all here, also.


Building Secure Servers with Linux, Michael D. Bauer (O'Reilly), 2002

While not specific to either BSD, this book includes a decent chapter on djbdns. It is one of the few substantive chapters in print on how to configure djbdns.


Manpages for djbdns (http://smarden.org/pape/djb/manpages/)

If you like to keep documentation around in manpage format, Gerrit Pape has created manpages that can be installed for most of Bernstein's software.

5.8.3. Selected DNS-Related Requests for Comments (RFCs)

  • RFC 1034: Domain Names Concepts and Facilities

  • RFC 1035: Domain Names Implementation and Specification

  • RFC 1183: New DNS RR Definitions

  • RFC 1591: Domain Name System Structure and Delegation

  • RFC 1886: DNS Extensions to support IP Version 6

  • RFC 1995: Incremental Zone Transfer in DNS

  • RFC 2065: Domain Name System Security Extensions

  • RFC 2136: Dynamic Updates in the Domain Name System

  • RFC 2137: Secure Domain Name System Dynamic Update

  • RFC 2168: Resolution of Uniform Resource Identifiers using the Domain Name System

  • RFC 2308: Negative Caching of DNS Queries

  • RFC 2317: Classless IN-ADDR.ARPA Delegation

  • RFC 2845: Secret Key Transaction Authentication for DNS (TSIG)

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