Chapter 8. Managing Domains and DNS

This chapter contains the following recipes:

  • Setting up BIND as a resolving DNS server
  • Configuring BIND as an authoritative DNS server
  • Writing a reverse lookup zone file
  • Setting up a slave DNS server
  • Configuring rndc to control BIND

Introduction

In this chapter, you'll find recipes that cover working with BIND in various capacities to manage your domain infrastructure better. You'll learn how to configure BIND as a resolving DNS server capable of caching lookup results which can help reduce latency, and also how to configure BIND as an authoritative DNS server to provide authoritative responses publicly for your domain or for resources on your private intranet. Also discussed are handling reverse lookup requests and ...

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