DNS and BIND / Cricket Liu and Paul Albitz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Liu, Cricket.

Contributor:

Albitz, Paul.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

UNIX (Computer file).

Internet domain names.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (648 p.)

Edition:

5th ed.

Other Title:

Domain Name System and Berkeley Internet Name Domain

Place of Publication:

Sebastopol, California : O'Reilly, 2006.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

DNS and BIND tells you everything you need to work with one of the Internet's fundamental building blocks: the distributed host information database that's responsible for translating names into addresses, routing mail to its proper destination, and even listing phone numbers with the new ENUM standard. This book brings you up-to-date with the latest changes in this crucial service. The fifth edition covers BIND 9.3.2, the most recent release of the BIND 9 series, as well as BIND 8.4.7. BIND 9.3.2 contains further improvements in security and IPv6 support, and important new fea

Contents:

DNS and BIND, 5th Edition; What&s New in the Fifth Edition?; Organization; Audience; Obtaining the Example Programs; How to Contact Us; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; Safari® Enabled; Quotations; Acknowledgments; 1. Background; 1.2. On the Internet and Internets; 1.3. The Domain Name System, in a Nutshell; 1.4. The History of BIND; 1.5. Must I Use DNS?; 2. How Does DNS Work?; 2.1.2. Domains; 2.1.3. Resource Records; 2.2. The Internet Domain Namespace; 2.2.1.2. New top-level domains; 2.2.2. Further Down; 2.2.3. Reading Domain Names; 2.3. Delegation

2.4. Nameservers and Zones2.4.2. Types of Nameservers; 2.4.3. Zone Datafiles; 2.5. Resolvers; 2.6. Resolution; 2.6.2. Recursion; 2.6.3. Iteration; 2.6.4. Choosing Between Authoritative Nameservers; 2.6.5. The Whole Enchilada; 2.6.6. Mapping Addresses to Names; 2.7. Caching; 3. Where Do I Start?; 3.1.2. Finding IP Addresses; 3.2. Choosing a Domain Name; 3.2.2. Where in the World Do I Fit?; 3.2.3. Back in the U.S.A.; 3.2.3.2. Choosing a registrar; 3.2.4. Checking That Your Network Is Registered; 3.2.5. Registering Your Zones; 4. Setting Up BIND; 4.2. Setting Up Zone Data; 4.2.2. Comments

4.2.3. Setting the Zone&s Default TTL4.2.4. SOA Records; 4.2.5. NS Records; 4.2.6. Address and Alias Records; 4.2.7. PTR Records; 4.2.8. The Completed Zone Datafiles; 4.2.9. The Loopback Address; 4.2.10. The Root Hints Data; 4.3. Setting Up a BIND Configuration File; 4.4. Abbreviations; 4.4.2. The @ Notation; 4.4.3. Repeat Last Name; 4.4.4. The Shortened Zone Datafiles; 4.5. Hostname Checking; 4.6. Tools; 4.7. Running a Primary Nameserver; 4.7.2. Check for Syslog Errors; 4.7.3. Testing Your Setup with nslookup; 4.7.3.2. Look up a local domain name; 4.7.3.3. Look up a local address

4.7.3.4. Look up a remote domain name4.7.3.5. One more test; 4.7.4. Editing the Startup Files; 4.8. Running a Slave Nameserver; 4.8.2. Backup Files; 4.8.3. SOA Values; 4.8.4. Multiple Master Servers; 4.9. Adding More Zones; 4.10. What&s Next?; 5. DNS and Electronic Mail; 5.2. Movie.edu&s Mail Server; 5.3. What&s a Mail Exchanger, Again?; 5.4. The MX Algorithm; 5.5. DNS and Email Authentication; 6. Configuring Hosts; 6.2. Resolver Configuration; 6.2.2. The Search List; 6.2.2.2. The BIND 4.8.3 search list; 6.2.3. The search Directive; 6.2.4. The nameserver Directive

6.2.4.2. More than one nameserver configured6.2.5. The sortlist Directive; 6.2.6. The options Directive; 6.2.7. Comments; 6.2.8. A Note on the 4.9 Resolver Directives; 6.3. Sample Resolver Configurations; 6.3.2. Local Nameserver; 6.4. Minimizing Pain and Suffering; 6.4.2. Electronic Mail; 6.4.3. Updating .rhosts, hosts.equiv, etc.; 6.4.4. Providing Aliases; 6.5. Additional Configuration Files; 6.6. The Windows XP Resolver; 6.6.2. Subnet Prioritization; 7. Maintaining BIND; 7.1.2. rndc and controls (BIND 9); 7.1.2.2. New rndc commands; 7.1.3. Using Signals; 7.2. Updating Zone Datafiles

7.2.2. SOA Serial Numbers

Notes:

Albitz's name appeared first on the first edition.

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780596550004

0596550006

9780596553401

0596553404

OCLC:

609840814