The Concise Guide to DNS and BIND - page 1
- Main Page
- 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
