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DNS and BIND

DNS and BIND Author: Cricket Liu Paul Albitz Publisher: O'Reilly Published: 2006 Pages: 616

DNS and BIND

DNS and BIND Chapters

DNS and BIND Chapters

1. Background
   • A (Very) Brief History of the Internet
   • On the Internet and the Internets
   • The Domain Name System, in a Nutshell
   • The History of BIND
   • Must I Use DNS?
2. How Does DNS Work?
   • The Domain Namespace
   • The Internet Domain Namespace
   • Delegation
   • Nameservers and Zones
   • Resolvers
   • Resolution
   • Caching
3. Where Do I Start?
   • Getting BIND
   • Choosing a Domain Name
4. Setting Up BIND
   • Our Zone
   • Setting Up Zone Data
   • Setting Up a BIND Configuration File
   • Abbreviations
   • Hostname Checking
   • Tools
   • Running a Primary Nameserver
   • Running a Slave Nameserver
   • Adding More Zones
   • What's Next?
5. DNS and Electronic Mail
   • MX Records
   • Movie edu's Mail Server
   • What's a Mail Exchanger, Again?
   • The MX Algorithm
   • DNS and Email Authentication
6. Configuring Hosts
   • The Resolver
   • Resolver Configuration
   • Sample Resolver Configuration
   • Minimizing Pain and Suffering
   • Additional Configuration Files
   • The Windows XP Resolver
7. Maintaining BIND
   • Controlling the Nameserver
   • Updating Zone Datafiles
   • Organizing System File Locations
   • Logging
   • Keeping Everything Running Smoothly
8. Growing Your Domain
   • How Many Nameservers?
   • Adding More Nameservers
   • Changing TTLs
   • Planning for Disasters
   • Coping with Disaster
9. Parenting
   • When to become a Parent
   • How Many Children?
   • What to Name Your Children
   • How to Become a Parent: Creating Subdomains
   • Subdomains of in-addr.arpa Domains
   • Good Parenting
   • managing the Transition to Subdomains
   • The Life of a Parent
10. Advanced Features
    • Address Match Lists and ACLs
    • DNS Dyanmic Update
    • DNS NOTIFY (Zone Change Notifications)
    • Incremental Zone transfer (IXFR)
    • Forwarding
    • Views
    • Round-Robin Load Distribution
    • Nameserver Address Sorting
    • Preferring Nameservers on Certain Netwroks
    • A Nonrecursive Nameserver
    • Avoiding a Bogus Nameserver
    • System Tuning
    • Copatibility
    • The ABCs of IPv6 Addressing
    • Addresses and Ports
11. Security
    • TSIG
    • Securing Your Nameserver
    • DNS and Internet Firewalls
    • The DNS Security Extensions
12. nslookup and dig
    • Is nslookup a Good Tool?
    • Interactive Versus Noninteractive
    • Option Settings
    • Avoiding the Search List
    • Common Tasks
    • Less Common Tasks
    • Troubleshooting nslookup Problems
    • Best of the Net
    • Using dig
13. Reading BIND Debugging Output
    • Debugging Levels
    • Truning On Debugging
    • Reading Debugging Output
    • The Resolver Search Algorithms and Ngeative Caching (BIND 8)
    • The Resolver Search Algorithms and Ngeative Caching (BIND 9)
    • Tools
14. Troubleshooting DNS and BIND
    • Is NIS Really Your Problem?
    • Tourbleshooting Tools and Techniques
    • Potential Problem List
    • Transition Problems
    • Interoperability and Version Problems
    • TSIG Errors
    • Problem Symptoms
15. Programming with the Resolver and Nameserver Library Routines
    • Shell Script Programming with nslookup
    • C Programming with the Resolver Library Routines
    • Perl Programming with Net::DNS
16. Architecture
    • External, Authoritative DNS Infrastructure
    • Forwarder Infrastructure
    • Internal DNS Infrastrcuture
    • Operations
    • Keeping Up with DNS and BIND
17. Miscellaneous
    • Using CNAME Records
    • Wildcards
    • A Limitation of MX Records
    • Dial-up Connections
    • Network Names and Numbers
    • Additional Resource Records
    • ENUM
    • Internationalized Domain Names
    • DNS and WINS
    • DNS, Windows, and Active Directory

DNS and BIND Appendices

1. DNS Message Format and Resource Records
2. BIND Compatibility Matrix
3. Compiling and Installing BIND on Linux
4. Top-Level Domains
5. BIND Nameserver and Resolver Configuration
6. Index