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DNS and BIND, Fourth Edition

By
Paul Albitz, Cricket Liu
Publisher:
O'Reilly Media
Released:
April 2001
Pages:
624

Product Editions

Please consider the latest edition.

  1. DNS and BIND, Fifth Edition - May 2006
  2. DNS and BIND, Fourth Edition - April 2001
  3. DNS and BIND, Third Edition - November 1998 (out of print)
  4. DNS and BIND, Second Edition - December 1996 (out of print)
  5. DNS and BIND - October 1992 (out of print)
Description

The fourth edition of DNS and BIND covers the new 9.1.0 and 8.2.3 versions of BIND as well as the older 4.9 version. There's also more extensive coverage of NOTIFY, IPv6 forward and reverse mapping, transaction signatures, and the new DNS Security Extensions; and a section on accommodating Windows 2000 clients, servers and Domain Controllers.

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Table of Contents

  1. Chapter 1 Background

    1. A (Very) Brief History of the Internet

    2. On the Internet and internets

    3. The Domain Name System in a Nutshell

    4. The History of BIND

    5. Must I Use DNS?

  2. Chapter 2 How Does DNS Work?

    1. The Domain Name Space

    2. The Internet Domain Name Space

    3. Delegation

    4. Name Servers and Zones

    5. Resolvers

    6. Resolution

    7. Caching

  3. Chapter 3 Where Do I Start?

    1. Getting BIND

    2. Choosing a Domain Name

  4. Chapter 4 Setting Up BIND

    1. Our Zone

    2. Setting Up Zone Data

    3. Setting Up a BIND Configuration File

    4. Abbreviations

    5. Host Name Checking (BIND 4.9.4 and Later Versions)

    6. Tools

    7. Running a Primary Master Name Server

    8. Running a Slave Name Server

    9. Adding More Zones

    10. What Next?

  5. Chapter 5 DNS and Electronic Mail

    1. MX Records

    2. What’s a Mail Exchanger, Again?

    3. The MX Algorithm

  6. Chapter 6 Configuring Hosts

    1. The Resolver

    2. Sample Resolver Configurations

    3. Minimizing Pain and Suffering

    4. Vendor -Specific Options

  7. Chapter 7 Maintaining BIND

    1. Controlling the Name Server

    2. Updating Zone Data Files

    3. Organizing Your Files

    4. Changing System File Locations in BIND 8 and 9

    5. Logging in BIND 8 and 9

    6. Keeping Everything Running Smoothly

  8. Chapter 8 Growing Your Domain

    1. How Many Name Servers?

    2. Adding More Name Servers

    3. Registering Name Servers

    4. Changing TTLs

    5. Planning for Disasters

    6. Coping with Disaster

  9. Chapter 9 Parenting

    1. When to Become a Parent

    2. How Many Children?

    3. What to Name Your Children

    4. How to Become a Parent: Creating Subdomains

    5. Subdomains of in-addr.arpa Domains

    6. Good Parenting

    7. Managing the Transition to Subdomains

    8. The Life of a Parent

  10. Chapter 10 Advanced Features

    1. Address Match Lists and ACLs

    2. DNS Dynamic Update

    3. DNS NOTIFY (Zone Change Notification)

    4. Incremental Zone Transfer (IXFR)

    5. Forwarding

    6. Views

    7. Round Robin Load Distribution

    8. Name Server Address Sorting

    9. Preferring Name Servers on Certain Networks

    10. A Nonrecursive Name Server

    11. Avoiding a Bogus Name Server

    12. System Tuning

    13. Compatibility

    14. The ABCs of IPv6 Addressing

    15. Addresses and Ports

    16. IPv6 Forward and Reverse Mapping

  11. Chapter 11 Security

    1. TSIG

    2. Securing Your Name Server

    3. DNS and Internet Firewalls

    4. The DNS Security Extensions

  12. Chapter 12 nslookup and dig

    1. Is nslookup a Good Tool?

    2. Interactive Versus Noninteractive

    3. Option Settings

    4. Avoiding the Search List

    5. Common Tasks

    6. Less Common Tasks

    7. Troubleshooting nslookup Problems

    8. Best of the Net

    9. Using dig

  13. Chapter 13 Reading BIND Debugging Output

    1. Debugging Levels

    2. Turning On Debugging

    3. Reading Debugging Output

    4. The Resolver Search Algorithm and Negative Caching (BIND 8)

    5. The Resolver Search Algorithm and Negative Caching (BIND 9)

    6. Tools

  14. Chapter 14 Troubleshooting DNS and BIND

    1. Is NIS Really Your Problem?

    2. Troubleshooting Tools and Techniques

    3. Potential Problem List

    4. Transition Problems

    5. Interoperability and Version Problems

    6. TSIG Errors

    7. Problem Symptoms

  15. Chapter 15 Programming with the Resolver and Name Server Library Routines

    1. Shell Script Programming with nslookup

    2. C Programming with the Resolver Library Routines

    3. Perl Programming with Net::DNS

  16. Chapter 16 Miscellaneous

    1. Using CNAME Records

    2. Wildcards

    3. A Limitation of MX Records

    4. Dialup Connections

    5. Network Names and Numbers

    6. Additional Resource Records

    7. DNS and WINS

    8. DNS and Windows 2000

  1. Appendix DNS Message Format and Resource Records

    1. Master File Format

    2. DNS Messages

    3. Resource Record Data

  2. Appendix BIND Compatibility Matrix

  3. Appendix Compiling and Installing BIND on Linux

    1. Instructions for BIND 8.2.3

    2. Instructions for BIND 9.1.0

  4. Appendix Top-Level Domains

  5. Appendix BIND Name Server and Resolver Configuration

    1. BIND Name Server Boot File Directives and Configuration File Statements

    2. BIND 4 Boot File Directives

    3. BIND 8 Configuration File Statements

    4. BIND 9 Configuration File Statements

    5. BIND Resolver Statements

  6. Colophon

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Product Details
Title:
DNS and BIND, Fourth Edition
By:
Paul Albitz, Cricket Liu
Publisher:
O'Reilly Media
Formats:
  • Print
  • Safari Books Online
Print Release:
April 2001
Pages:
624
Print ISBN:
978-0-596-00158-2
| ISBN 10:
0-596-00158-4
Customer Reviews
About the Authors

  1. Paul Albitz

    Paul Albitz is a software engineer at Hewlett-Packard. Paul earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Wisconsin, LaCrosse, and a Master of Science degree from Purdue University. Paul worked on BIND for the HP-UX 7.0 and 8.0 releases. During this time Paul developed the tools used to run the hp.com domain. More recently he has been involved in networking HP's DesignJet plotter. Before joining HP, Paul was a system administrator in the CS Department of Purdue University. As system administrator, Paul ran versions of BIND before BIND's initial release with 4.3 BSD. Paul and his wife Katherine live in San Diego, CA.

    View Paul Albitz's full profile page.

  2. Cricket Liu

    Cricket Liu matriculated at the University of California's Berkeley campus, that great bastion of free speech, unencumbered Unix, and cheap pizza. He joined Hewlett-Packard after graduation and worked for HP for nine years. Cricket began managing the hp.com zone after the Loma Prieta earthquake forcibly transferred the zone's management from HP Labs to HP's Corporate Offices (by cracking a sprinkler main and flooding Labs' computer room). Cricket was hostmaster@hp.com for over three years, and then joined HP's Professional Services Organization to cofound HP's Internet Consulting Program. Cricket left HP in 1997 to form Acme Byte & Wire, a DNS consulting and training company, with his friend (and now co-author) Matt Larson. Network Solutions acquired Acme in June 2000, and later the same day merged with VeriSign. Cricket worked for a year as Director of DNS Product Management for VeriSign Global Registry Services. Cricket joined Men & Mice, an Icelandic company specializing in DNS software and services, in September, 2001. He is currently their Vice President, Research & Development. Cricket, his wife, Paige, and their son, Walt, live in Colorado with two Siberian Huskies, Annie and Dakota. On warm weekend afternoons, you'll probably find them on the flying trapeze or wakeboarding behind Betty Blue.

    View Cricket Liu's full profile page.

Colophon

Our look is the result of reader comments, our own experimentation, and feedback from distribution channels. Distinctive covers complement our distinctive approach to technical topics, breathing personality and life into potentially dry subjects. The insects featured on the cover of DNS and BIND are grasshoppers. Grasshoppers are found all over the globe. Of over 5000 species, 100 different grasshopper species are found in North America. Grasshoppers are greenish-brown, and range in length from a half inch to four inches, with wingspans of up to six inches. Their bodies are divided into three sections: the head, thorax, and abdomen, with three pairs of legs and two pairs of wings.

Male grasshoppers use their hind legs and forewings to produce a "chirping" sound. Their hind legs have a ridge of small pegs that are rubbed across a hardened vein in the forewing, causing an audible vibration much like a bow being drawn across a string.

Grasshoppers are major crop pests, particularly when they collect in swarms. A single grasshopper can consume 30 mg of food a day. In collections of 50 or more grasshoppers per square yard--a density often reached during grasshopper outbreaks--grasshoppers consume as much as a cow would per acre. In addition to consuming foliage, grasshoppers damage plants by attacking them at vulnerable points and causing the stems to break off. Emily Quill was the production editor and proofreader for DNS & BIND, Fourth Edition. Leanne Soylemez was the copyeditor, and also provided production assistance. Catherine Morris and Matt Hutchinson performed quality control reviews. Brenda Miller wrote the index. Production assistance was provided by Edith Shapiro and Sada Preisch.

Edie Freedman designed the cover of this book, using a 19th-century engraving from the Dover Pictorial Archive. Emma Colby and Erica Corwell produced the cover layout with QuarkXPress 4.1 using Adobe's ITC Garamond font.

David Futato and Melanie Wang designed the interior layout, based on a series design by Nancy Priest. Anne-Marie Vaduva converted the files from Microsoft Word to FrameMaker 5.5.6 using tools created by Mike Sierra. The text and heading fonts are ITC Garamond Light and Garamond Book; the code font is Constant Willison. The illustrations that appear in this book were produced by Robert Romano and Jessamyn Read using Macromedia Freehand 9 and Adobe Photoshop 6. This colophon was written by Clairemarie Fisher O'Leary.

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