Preface | p. xi |
Background | p. 1 |
A (Very) Brief History of the Internet | p. 1 |
On the Internet and Internets | p. 2 |
The Domain Name System, in a Nutshell | p. 4 |
The History of BIND | p. 9 |
Must I Use DNS? | p. 9 |
How Does DNS Work? | p. 11 |
The Domain Namespace | p. 11 |
The Internet Domain Namespace | p. 17 |
Delegation | p. 21 |
Nameservers and Zones | p. 22 |
Resolvers | p. 26 |
Resolution | p. 27 |
Caching | p. 34 |
Where Do I Start? | p. 37 |
Getting BIND | p. 37 |
Choosing a Domain Name | p. 41 |
Setting Up BIND | p. 53 |
Our Zone | p. 53 |
Setting Up Zone Data | p. 54 |
Setting Up a BIND Configuration File | p. 65 |
Abbreviations | p. 68 |
Hostname Checking | p. 71 |
Tools | p. 73 |
Running a Primary Nameserver | p. 74 |
Running a Slave Nameserver | p. 81 |
Adding More Zones | p. 88 |
What's Next? | p. 88 |
DNS and Electronic Mail | p. 89 |
MX Records | p. 90 |
Movie.edu's Mail Server | p. 92 |
What's a Mail Exchanger, Again? | p. 92 |
The MX Algorithm | p. 94 |
DNS and Email Authentication | p. 96 |
Configuring Hosts | p. 100 |
The Resolver | p. 100 |
Resolver Configuration | p. 101 |
Sample Resolver Configurations | p. 112 |
Minimizing Pain and Suffering | p. 114 |
Additional Configuration Files | p. 119 |
The Windows XP Resolver | p. 120 |
Maintaining BIND | p. 127 |
Controlling the Nameserver | p. 127 |
Updating Zone Datafiles | p. 136 |
Organizing Your Files | p. 143 |
Changing System File Locations | p. 147 |
Logging | p. 148 |
Keeping Everything Running Smoothly | p. 158 |
Growing Your Domain | p. 177 |
How Many Nameservers? | p. 177 |
Adding More Nameservers | p. 185 |
Registering Nameservers | p. 189 |
Changing TTLs | p. 192 |
Planning for Disasters | p. 195 |
Coping with Disaster | p. 198 |
Parenting | p. 201 |
When to Become a Parent | p. 202 |
How Many Children? | p. 202 |
What to Name Your Children | p. 203 |
How to Become a Parent: Creating Subdomains | p. 204 |
Subdomains of in-addr.arpa Domains | p. 214 |
Good Parenting | p. 220 |
Managing the Transition to Subdomains | p. 223 |
The Life of a Parent | p. 225 |
Advanced Features | p. 226 |
Address Match Lists and ACLs | p. 226 |
DNS Dynamic Update | p. 228 |
DNS NOTIFY (Zone Change Notification) | p. 235 |
Incremental Zone Transfer (IXFR) | p. 240 |
Forwarding | p. 244 |
Views | p. 247 |
Round-Robin Load Distribution | p. 250 |
Nameserver Address Sorting | p. 253 |
Preferring Nameservers on Certain Networks | p. 255 |
A Nonrecursive Nameserver | p. 256 |
Avoiding a Bogus Nameserver | p. 257 |
System Tuning | p. 258 |
Compatibility | p. 267 |
The ABCs of IPv6 Addressing | p. 268 |
Addresses and Ports | p. 270 |
Security | p. 282 |
TSIG | p. 283 |
Securing Your Nameserver | p. 287 |
DNS and Internet Firewalls | p. 300 |
The DNS Security Extensions | p. 322 |
nslookup and dig | p. 349 |
Is nslookup a Good Tool? | p. 349 |
Interactive Versus Noninteractive | p. 351 |
Option Settings | p. 352 |
Avoiding the Search List | p. 355 |
Common Tasks | p. 355 |
Less Common Tasks | p. 358 |
Troubleshooting nslookup Problems | p. 366 |
Best of the Net | p. 370 |
Using dig | p. 371 |
Reading BIND Debugging Output | p. 376 |
Debugging Levels | p. 376 |
Turning On Debugging | p. 379 |
Reading Debugging Output | p. 380 |
The Resolver Search Algorithm and Negative Caching (BIND 8) | p. 393 |
The Resolver Search Algorithm and Negative Caching (BIND 9) | p. 394 |
Tools | p. 395 |
Troubleshooting DNS and BIND | p. 396 |
Is NIS Really Your Problem? | p. 396 |
Troubleshooting Tools and Techniques | p. 397 |
Potential Problem List | p. 409 |
Transition Problems | p. 426 |
Interoperability and Version Problems | p. 427 |
TSIG Errors | p. 431 |
Problem Symptoms | p. 432 |
Programming with the Resolver and Nameserver Library Routines | p. 438 |
Shell Script Programming with nslookup | p. 438 |
C Programming with the Resolver Library Routines | p. 445 |
Perl Programming with Net::DNS | p. 470 |
Architecture | p. 474 |
External, Authoritative DNS Infrastructure | p. 474 |
Forwarder Infrastructure | p. 478 |
Internal DNS Infrastructure | p. 480 |
Operations | p. 481 |
Keeping Up with DNS and BIND | p. 482 |
Miscellaneous | p. 483 |
Using CNAME Records | p. 483 |
Wildcards | p. 488 |
A Limitation of MX Records | p. 489 |
Dial-up Connections | p. 489 |
Network Names and Numbers | p. 494 |
Additional Resource Records | p. 496 |
ENUM | p. 501 |
Internationalized Domain Names | p. 504 |
DNS and WINS | p. 506 |
DNS, Windows, and Active Directory | p. 508 |
DNS Message Format and Resource Records | p. 517 |
BIND Compatibility Matrix | p. 537 |
Compiling and Installing BIND on Linux | p. 538 |
Top-Level Domains | p. 543 |
BIND Nameserver and Resolver Configuration | p. 548 |
Index | p. 589 |
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