DNS & BIND Cookbook

Preface; Platform and Version; Organization; Audience; Other Books and Resources; Conventions Used in This Book; Comments and Questions; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Getting Started; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Finding More Information About DNS and BIND; 1.3 Asking Questions You Can???t Find Answers To; 1.4 Getting a List of Top-Level Domains; 1.5 Checking Whether a Domain Name Is Registered; 1.6 Registering a Domain Name; 1.7 Registering Name Servers; 1.8 Registering a Reverse-Mapping Domain; 1.9 Transferring Your Domain Name to Another Registrar; 1.10 Choosing a Version of BIND; 1.11 Finding Out Which Version of BIND You???re Running; 1.12 Getting BIND; 1.13 Building and Installing BIND; 1.14 Getting a Precompiled Version of BIND; 1.15 Creating a named.conf File; 1.16 Configuring a Name Server as the Primary Master for a Zone; 1.17 Configuring a Name Server as a Slave for a Zone; 1.18 Configuring a Name Server as Authoritative for Multiple Zones; 1.19 Starting a Name Server; 1.20 Stopping a Name Server; 1.21 Starting named at Boot Time; Chapter 2: Zone Data; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Creating a Zone Data File; 2.3 Adding a Host; 2.4 Adding an Alias; 2.5 Adding a Mail Destination; 2.6 Making the Domain Name of Your Zone Point to Your Web Server; 2.7 Pointing a Domain Name to a Particular URL; 2.8 Setting Up Round Robin Load Distribution; 2.9 Adding a Domain Name in a Subdomain Without Creating a New Zone; 2.10 Preventing Remote Name Servers from Caching a Resource Record; 2.11 Adding a Multihomed Host; 2.12 Updating a Name Server???s Root Hints File; 2.13 Using a Single Data File for Multiple Zones; 2.14 Using Multiple Data Files for a Single Zone; 2.15 Resetting Your Zone???s Serial Number; 2.16 Making Manual Changes to a Dynamically Updated Zone; 2.17 Moving a Host; 2.18 Mapping Any Domain Name in a Zone to a Single IP Address; 2.19 Adding Similar Records; 2.20 Making Your Services Easy to Find; 2.21 Storing the Location of a Host in DNS; 2.22 Filtering a Host Table into Zone Data Files; Chapter 3: BIND Name Server Configuration; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Configuring a Name Server to Work with ndc; 3.3 Configuring a Name Server to Work with rndc; 3.4 Using rndc with a Remote Name Server; 3.5 Allowing ???Illegal??? Characters in Domain Names; 3.6 Dividing a Large named.conf File into Multiple Files; 3.7 Organizing Zone Data Files in Different Directories; 3.8 Configuring a Name Server as Slave for All of Your Zones; 3.9 Finding an Offsite Slave Name Server for Your Zone; 3.10 Protecting a Slave Name Server from Abuse; 3.11 Allowing Dynamic Updates; 3.12 Configuring a Name Server to Forward Dynamic Updates; 3.13 Notifying a Slave Name Server Not in a Zone???s NS Records; 3.14 Limiting NOTIFY Messages; 3.15 Configuring a Name Server to Forward Queries to Another Name Server; 3.16 Configuring a Name Server to Forward Some Queries to Other Name Servers; 3.17 Configuring a Name Server Not to Forward Certain Queries; 3.18 Returning Different Answers to Different Queriers; 3.19 Determining the Order in Which a Name Server Returns Answers; 3.20 Setting Up a Slave Name Server for a Zone in Multiple Views; 3.21 Disabling Caching; 3.22 Limiting the Memory a Name Server Uses; 3.23 Configuring IXFR; 3.24 Limiting the Size of the IXFR Log File; 3.25 Configuring a Name Server to Listen Only on Certain Network Interfaces; 3.26 Running a Name Server on an Alternate Port; 3.27 Setting Up a Root Name Server; 3.28 Returning a Default Record; 3.29 Configuring DNS to Let Clients Find the Closest Server; 3.30 Handling Dialup Connections; Chapter 4: Electronic Mail; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Configuring a Backup Mail Server in DNS; 4.3 Configuring Multiple Mail Servers in DNS; 4.4 Configuring Mail to Go to One Server and the Web to Another; 4.5 Configuring DNS for ???Virtual??? Email Addresses; 4.6 Configuring DNS So a Mail Server and the Email It Sends Pass Anti-Spam Tests; Chapter 5: BIND Name Server Operations; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Figuring Out How Much Memory a Name Server Will Need; 5.3 Testing a Name Server???s Configuration; 5.4 Viewing a Name Server???s Cache; 5.5 Flushing (Clearing) a Name Server???s Cache; 5.6 Modifying Zone Data Without Restarting the Name Server; 5.7 Adding or Removing Zones Without Restarting or Reloading the Name Server; 5.8 Initiating a Zone Transfer; 5.9 Restarting a Name Server Automatically If It Dies; 5.10 Restarting a Name Server with the Same Arguments; 5.11 Controlling Multiple named Processes with rndc; 5.12 Controlling Multiple named Processes with ndc; 5.13 Finding Out Who???s Querying a Name Server; 5.14 Measuring a Name Server???s Performance; 5.15 Measuring Queries for Records in Particular Zones; 5.16 Monitoring a Name Server; 5.17 Limiting Concurrent Zone Transfers; 5.18 Limiting Concurrent TCP Clients; 5.19 Limiting Connnnnncurrent Recursive Clients; 5.20 Dynamically Updating a Zone; 5.21 Sending Dynamic Updates to a Particular Name Server; 5.22 Setting Prerequisites in a Dynamic Update; 5.23 Sending TSIG-Signed Dynamic Updates; 5.24 Setting Up a Backup Primary Master Name Server; 5.25 Promoting a Slave Name Server to the Primary Master; 5.26 Running Multiple Primary Master Name Servers for the Same Zone; 5.27 Creating a Zone Programmatically; 5.28 Migrating from One Domain Name to Another; Chapter 6: Delegation and Registration; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Delegating a Subdomain; 6.3 Delegating a Subdomain of a Reverse-Mapping Zone; 6.4 Delegating Reverse-Mapping for Networks with Non-Octet Masks; 6.5 Delegating Reverse-Mapping for Networks Smaller than a /24; 6.6 Checking Delegation; 6.7 Moving a Name Server; 6.8 Changing Your Zone???s Name Servers; Chapter 7: Security; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Concealing a Name Server???s Version; 7.3 Configuring a Name Server to Work with a Firewall (or Vice Versa); 7.4 Setting Up a Hidden Primary Master Name Server; 7.5 Setting Up a Stealth Slave Name Server; 7.6 Configuring an Authoritative-Only Name Server; 7.7 Configuring a Caching-Only Name Server; 7.8 Running a Name Server in a chroot( ) Jail; 7.9 Running the Name Server as a User Other than Root; 7.10 Defining a TSIG Key; 7.11 Securing Zone Transfers; 7.12 Restricting the Queries a Name Server Answers; 7.13 Preventing a Name Server from Querying a Particular Remote Name Server; 7.14 Preventing a Name Server from Responding to DNS Traffic from Certain Networks; 7.15 Protecting a Name Server from Spoofing; Chapter 8: Interoperability and Upgrading; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 Upgrading from BIND 4 to BIND 8 or 9; 8.3 Upgrading from BIND 8 to BIND 9; 8.4 Configuring a Name Server to Accommodate a Slave Running BIND 4; 8.5 Configuring a BIND Name Server to Accommodate a Slave Running the Microsoft DNS Server; 8.6 Configuring a BIND Name Server as a Slave to a Microsoft DNS Server; 8.7 Preventing Windows Computers from Trying to Update Your Zones; 8.8 Handling Windows Registration with a BIND Name Server; 8.9 Handling Active Directory with a Name Server; 8.10 Configuring a DHCP Server to Update a BIND Name Server; Chapter 9: Resolvers and Programming; 9.1 Introduction; 9.2 Configuring a Resolver to Query a Remote Name Server; 9.3 Configuring a Resolver to Resolve Single-Label Domain Names; 9.4 Configuring a Resolver to Append Multiple Domain Names to Arguments; 9.5 Sorting Multiple Addresses in a Response; 9.6 Changing the Resolver???s Timeout; 9.7 Configuring the Order in Which a Resolver Uses DNS, /etc/hosts, and NIS; 9.8 Looking Up Records Programmatically; 9.9 Transferring a Zone Programmatically; 9.10 Updating a Zone Programmatically; 9.11 Signing Queries and Dynamic Updates with TSIG Programmatically; Chapter 10: Logging and Troubleshooting; 10.1 Introduction; 10.2 Finding a Syntax Error in a named.conf File; 10.3 Finding a Syntax Error in a Zone Data File; 10.4 Sending Log Messages to a Particular File; 10.5 Discarding a Category of Messages; 10.6 Determining Which Category a Message Is In; 10.7 Sending syslog Output to Another Host; 10.8 Logging Dynamic Updates; 10.9 Rotating Log Files; 10.10 Looking Up Records with dig; 10.11 Reverse-Mapping an Address with dig; 10.12 Transferring a Zone Using dig; 10.13 Tracing Name Resolution Using dig; Chapter 11: IPv6; 11.1 Introduction; 11.2 Configuring a Name Server to Listen for Queries on an IPv6 Interface; 11.3 Configuring a Name Server to Send Queries from a Particular IPv6 Address; 11.4 Adding a Host with an IPv6 Interface; 11.5 Configuring rndc to Work Over IPv6; Colophon;