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Concise Guide to DNS and BIND, The
By Nicolai Langfeldt
   
Publisher : Que
Pub Date : September 20, 2000
ISBN : 0-7897-2273-9
Pages : 346
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.conf configuration 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


The Concise Guide to DNS and BIND
The Concise Guide to DNS and BIND
ISBN: 0789722739
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 1999
Pages: 183

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