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