| Preface | p. xi |
| Getting Started | p. 1 |
| Finding More Information About DNS and BIND | p. 1 |
| Asking Questions You Can't Find Answers To | p. 2 |
| Getting a List of Top-Level Domains | p. 3 |
| Checking Whether a Domain Name Is Registered | p. 4 |
| Registering a Domain Name | p. 5 |
| Registering Name Servers | p. 7 |
| Registering a Reverse-Mapping Domain | p. 7 |
| Transferring Your Domain Name to Another Registrar | p. 9 |
| Choosing a Version of BIND | p. 10 |
| Finding Out Which Version of BIND You're Running | p. 11 |
| Getting BIND | p. 12 |
| Building and Installing BIND | p. 13 |
| Getting a Precompiled Version of BIND | p. 14 |
| Creating a named.conf File | p. 15 |
| Configuring a Name Server as the Primary Master for a Zone | p. 16 |
| Configuring a Name Server as a Slave for a Zone | p. 17 |
| Configuring a Name Server as Authoritative for Multiple Zones | p. 18 |
| Starting a Name Server | p. 19 |
| Stopping a Name Server | p. 20 |
| Starting named at Boot Time | p. 21 |
| Zone Data | p. 23 |
| Creating a Zone Data File | p. 23 |
| Adding a Host | p. 26 |
| Adding an Alias | p. 27 |
| Adding a Mail Destination | p. 28 |
| Making the Domain Name of Your Zone Point to Your Web Server | p. 29 |
| Pointing a Domain Name to a Particular URL | p. 30 |
| Setting Up Round Robin Load Distribution | p. 31 |
| Adding a Domain Name in a Subdomain Without Creating a New Zone | p. 32 |
| Preventing Remote Name Servers from Caching a Resource Record | p. 33 |
| Adding a Multihomed Host | p. 34 |
| Updating a Name Server's Root Hints File | p. 35 |
| Using a Single Data File for Multiple Zones | p. 35 |
| Using Multiple Data Files for a Single Zone | p. 37 |
| Resetting Your Zone's Serial Number | p. 37 |
| Making Manual Changes to a Dynamically Updated Zone | p. 39 |
| Moving a Host | p. 40 |
| Mapping Any Domain Name in a Zone to a Single IP Address | p. 41 |
| Adding Similar Records | p. 43 |
| Making Your Services Easy to Find | p. 44 |
| Storing the Location of a Host in DNS | p. 45 |
| Filtering a Host Table into Zone Data Files | p. 47 |
| BIND Name Server Configuration | p. 48 |
| Configuring a Name Server to Work with ndc | p. 49 |
| Configuring a Name Server to Work with rndc | p. 50 |
| Using rndc with a Remote Name Server | p. 52 |
| Allowing "Illegal" Characters in Domain Names | p. 54 |
| Dividing a Large named.conf File into Multiple Files | p. 55 |
| Organizing Zone Data Files in Different Directories | p. 56 |
| Configuring a Name Server as Slave for All of Your Zones | p. 57 |
| Finding an Offsite Slave Name Server for Your Zone | p. 58 |
| Protecting a Slave Name Server from Abuse | p. 59 |
| Allowing Dynamic Updates | p. 60 |
| Configuring a Name Server to Forward Dynamic Updates | p. 62 |
| Notifying a Slave Name Server Not in a Zone's NS Records | p. 63 |
| Limiting NOTIFY Messages | p. 64 |
| Configuring a Name Server to Forward Queries to Another Name Server | p. 66 |
| Configuring a Name Server to Forward Some Queries to Other Name Servers | p. 67 |
| Configuring a Name Server Not to Forward Certain Queries | p. 68 |
| Returning Different Answers to Different Queriers | p. 69 |
| Determining the Order in Which a Name Server Returns Answers | p. 71 |
| Setting Up a Slave Name Server for a Zone in Multiple Views | p. 72 |
| Disabling Caching | p. 77 |
| Limiting the Memory a Name Server Uses | p. 77 |
| Configuring IXFR | p. 79 |
| Limiting the Size of the IXFR Log File | p. 80 |
| Configuring a Name Server to Listen Only on Certain Network Interfaces | p. 80 |
| Running a Name Server on an Alternate Port | p. 81 |
| Setting Up a Root Name Server | p. 83 |
| Returning a Default Record | p. 84 |
| Configuring DNS to Let Clients Find the Closest Server | p. 85 |
| Handling Dialup Connections | p. 87 |
| Electronic Mail | p. 89 |
| Configuring a Backup Mail Server in DNS | p. 89 |
| Configuring Multiple Mail Servers in DNS | p. 90 |
| Configuring Mail to Go to One Server and the Web to Another | p. 91 |
| Configuring DNS for "Virtual" Email Addresses | p. 92 |
| Configuring DNS So a Mail Server and the Email It Sends Pass Anti-Spam Tests | p. 93 |
| BIND Name Server Operations | p. 94 |
| Figuring Out How Much Memory a Name Server Will Need | p. 94 |
| Testing a Name Server's Configuration | p. 95 |
| Viewing a Name Server's Cache | p. 96 |
| Flushing (Clearing) a Name Server's Cache | p. 97 |
| Modifying Zone Data Without Restarting the Name Server | p. 98 |
| Adding or Removing Zones Without Restarting or Reloading the Name Server | p. 99 |
| Initiating a Zone Transfer | p. 100 |
| Restarting a Name Server Automatically If It Dies | p. 101 |
| Restarting a Name Server with the Same Arguments | p. 102 |
| Controlling Multiple named Processes with rndc | p. 102 |
| Controlling Multiple named Processes with ndc | p. 104 |
| Finding Out Who's Querying a Name Server | p. 105 |
| Measuring a Name Server's Performance | p. 106 |
| Measuring Queries for Records in Particular Zones | p. 109 |
| Monitoring a Name Server | p. 110 |
| Limiting Concurrent Zone Transfers | p. 111 |
| Limiting Concurrent TCP Clients | p. 112 |
| Limiting Concurrent Recursive Clients | p. 113 |
| Dynamically Updating a Zone | p. 114 |
| Sending Dynamic Updates to a Particular Name Server | p. 115 |
| Setting Prerequisites in a Dynamic Update | p. 116 |
| Sending TSIG-Signed Dynamic Updates | p. 117 |
| Setting Up a Backup Primary Master Name Server | p. 118 |
| Promoting a Slave Name Server to the Primary Master | p. 119 |
| Running Multiple Primary Master Name Servers for the Same Zone | p. 120 |
| Creating a Zone Programmatically | p. 121 |
| Migrating from One Domain Name to Another | p. 122 |
| Delegation and Registration | p. 124 |
| Delegating a Subdomain | p. 124 |
| Delegating a Subdomain of a Reverse-Mapping Zone | p. 125 |
| Delegating Reverse-Mapping for Networks with Non-Octet Masks | p. 126 |
| Delegating Reverse-Mapping for Networks Smaller than a /24 | p. 128 |
| Checking Delegation | p. 129 |
| Moving a Name Server | p. 131 |
| Changing Your Zone's Name Servers | p. 133 |
| Security | p. 134 |
| Concealing a Name Server's Version | p. 134 |
| Configuring a Name Server to Work with a Firewall (or Vice Versa) | p. 137 |
| Setting Up a Hidden Primary Master Name Server | p. 139 |
| Setting Up a Stealth Slave Name Server | p. 140 |
| Configuring an Authoritative-Only Name Server | p. 141 |
| Configuring a Caching-Only Name Server | p. 142 |
| Running a Name Server in a chroot() Jail | p. 143 |
| Running the Name Server as a User Other than Root | p. 144 |
| Defining a TSIG Key | p. 145 |
| Securing Zone Transfers | p. 147 |
| Restricting the Queries a Name Server Answers | p. 149 |
| Preventing a Name Server from Querying a Particular Remote Name Server | p. 150 |
| Preventing a Name Server from Responding to DNS Traffic from Certain Networks | p. 151 |
| Protecting a Name Server from Spoofing | p. 152 |
| Interoperability and Upgrading | p. 154 |
| Upgrading from BIND 4 to BIND 8 or 9 | p. 154 |
| Upgrading from BIND 8 to BIND 9 | p. 155 |
| Configuring a Name Server to Accommodate a Slave Running BIND 4 | p. 157 |
| Configuring a BIND Name Server to Accommodate a Slave Running the Microsoft DNS Server | p. 158 |
| Configuring a BIND Name Server as a Slave to a Microsoft DNS Server | p. 159 |
| Preventing Windows Computers from Trying to Update Your Zones | p. 160 |
| Handling Windows Registration with a BIND Name Server | p. 161 |
| Handling Active Directory with a Name Server | p. 163 |
| Configuring a DHCP Server to Update a BIND Name Server | p. 165 |
| Resolvers and Programming | p. 168 |
| Configuring a Resolver to Query a Remote Name Server | p. 168 |
| Configuring a Resolver to Resolve Single-Label Domain Names | p. 169 |
| Configuring a Resolver to Append Multiple Domain Names to Arguments | p. 170 |
| Sorting Multiple Addresses in a Response | p. 171 |
| Changing the Resolver's Timeout | p. 172 |
| Configuring the Order in Which a Resolver Uses DNS,/etc/hosts, and NIS | p. 173 |
| Looking Up Records Programmatically | p. 175 |
| Transferring a Zone Programmatically | p. 177 |
| Updating a Zone Programmatically | p. 178 |
| Signing Queries and Dynamic Updates with TSIG Programmatically | p. 179 |
| Logging and Troubleshooting | p. 181 |
| Finding a Syntax Error in a named.conf File | p. 181 |
| Finding a Syntax Error in a Zone Data File | p. 182 |
| Sending Log Messages to a Particular File | p. 183 |
| Discarding a Category of Messages | p. 185 |
| Determining Which Category a Message Is In | p. 186 |
| Sending syslog Output to Another Host | p. 187 |
| Logging Dynamic Updates | p. 188 |
| Rotating Log Files | p. 190 |
| Looking Up Records with dig | p. 191 |
| Reverse-Mapping an Address with dig | p. 193 |
| Transferring a Zone Using dig | p. 195 |
| Tracing Name Resolution Using dig | p. 196 |
| IPv6 | p. 199 |
| Configuring a Name Server to Listen for Queries on an IPv6 Interface | p. 199 |
| Configuring a Name Server to Send Queries from a Particular IPv6 Address | p. 200 |
| Adding a Host with an IPv6 Interface | p. 201 |
| Configuring rndc to Work Over IPv6 | p. 203 |
| Index | p. 204 |
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