Paul Albitz

Cricket Liu

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 features such as internationalized domain names, ENUM (electronic numbering), and SPF (the Sender Policy Framework). Whether you're an administrator involved with DNS on a daily basis or a user who wants to be more informed about the Internet and how it works, you'll find that this book is essential reading. Topics include: What DNS does, how it works, and when you need to use it How to find your own place in the Internet's namespace Setting up name servers Using MX records to route mail Configuring hosts to use DNS name servers Subdividing domains (parenting) Securing your name server: restricting who can query your server, preventing unauthorized zone transfers, avoiding bogus servers, etc. The DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) and Transaction Signatures (TSIG) Mapping one name to several servers for load sharing Dynamic updates, asynchronous notification of change to a zone, and incremental zone transfers Troubleshooting: using nslookup and dig, reading debugging output, common problems DNS programming using the resolver library and Perl's Net::DNS module

Help for System Administrators

DNS and BIND

A complete guide to the Internet's Domain Name System (DNS) and the Berleley Internet Name Domain (BIND) software, the UNIX implementation of DNS, this book defines and covers the basic motivation behind DNS, and explains how to set up BIND software. The book also covers many more advanced topics, including who to become a "parent" (i.e. "delegate" the ability to assign names to someone else); how to use DNS to set up mail forwarding; and debugging and troubleshooting.

DNS and BIND in a Nutshell

Matt Larson

A complete guide to the Internet's Domain Name System (DNS) servers that run on Windows NT Server, this title concentrates on the version Microsoft released after Service Pack 3. The book also mentions other DNS servers that run on NT, especially ports of BIND, the popular UNIX implementation of the DNS specifications.

DNS on Windows NT

This text covers the 9.1.0 and 8.2.3 versions of BIND as well as the older 4.9 version. There's also more extensive coverage of NOTIFY, IPv6 forward and reverse mapping, transaction signatures, and the DNS Security Extensions.

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