DNS and BIND Cookbook Solutions and Examples for System Administrators

Name: DNS and BIND Cookbook Solutions and Examples for System Administrators
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ISBN: 9780596004101

ISBN-10: 0596004109

ISBN-13: 9780596004101

Edition: 2003

Authors: Cricket Liu

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The "DNS & BIND Cookbook presents solutions to the many problems faced by network administrators responsible for a name server. Following O'Reilly's popular problem-and-solution cookbook format, this title is an indispensable companion to "DNS & BIND, 4th Edition, the definitive guide to the critical task of name server administration. The cookbook contains dozens of code recipes showing solutions to everyday problems, ranging from simple questions, like, "How do I get BIND?" to more advanced topics like providing name service for IPv6 addresses. It's full of BIND configuration files that you can adapt to your sites requirements. With the wide range of recipes in this book, you'll be able…

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List price: $39.99
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/29/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.97" wide x 9.13" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 0.836

Cricket Liu matriculated at the University of California's Berkeley campus, that great bastion of free speech, unencumbered Unix, and cheap pizza. He joined Hewlett-Packard after graduation and worked for HP for nine years. Cricket began managing the hp.com zone after the Loma Prieta earthquake forcibly transferred the zone's management from HP Labs to HP's Corporate Offices (by cracking a sprinkler main and flooding Labs' computer room). Cricket was hostmaster@hp.com for over three years, and then joined HP's Professional Services Organization to cofound HP's Internet Consulting Program. Cricket left HP in 1997 to form Acme Byte & Wire, a DNS consulting and training company, with his…



Preface



Getting Started



Finding More Information About DNS and BIND



Asking Questions You Can't Find Answers To



Getting a List of Top-Level Domains



Checking Whether a Domain Name Is Registered



Registering a Domain Name



Registering Name Servers



Registering a Reverse-Mapping Domain



Transferring Your Domain Name to Another Registrar



Choosing a Version of BIND



Finding Out Which Version of BIND You're Running



Getting BIND



Building and Installing BIND



Getting a Precompiled Version of BIND



Creating a named.conf File



Configuring a Name Server as the Primary Master for a Zone



Configuring a Name Server as a Slave for a Zone



Configuring a Name Server as Authoritative for Multiple Zones



Starting a Name Server



Stopping a Name Server



Starting named at Boot Time



Zone Data



Creating a Zone Data File



Adding a Host



Adding an Alias



Adding a Mail Destination



Making the Domain Name of Your Zone Point to Your Web Server



Pointing a Domain Name to a Particular URL



Setting Up Round Robin Load Distribution



Adding a Domain Name in a Subdomain Without Creating a New Zone



Preventing Remote Name Servers from Caching a Resource Record



Adding a Multihomed Host



Updating a Name Server's Root Hints File



Using a Single Data File for Multiple Zones



Using Multiple Data Files for a Single Zone



Resetting Your Zone's Serial Number



Making Manual Changes to a Dynamically Updated Zone



Moving a Host



Mapping Any Domain Name in a Zone to a Single IP Address



Adding Similar Records



Making Your Services Easy to Find



Storing the Location of a Host in DNS



Filtering a Host Table into Zone Data Files



BIND Name Server Configuration



Configuring a Name Server to Work with ndc



Configuring a Name Server to Work with rndc



Using rndc with a Remote Name Server



Allowing "Illegal" Characters in Domain Names



Dividing a Large named.conf File into Multiple Files



Organizing Zone Data Files in Different Directories



Configuring a Name Server as Slave for All of Your Zones



Finding an Offsite Slave Name Server for Your Zone



Protecting a Slave Name Server from Abuse



Allowing Dynamic Updates



Configuring a Name Server to Forward Dynamic Updates



Notifying a Slave Name Server Not in a Zone's NS Records



Limiting NOTIFY Messages



Configuring a Name Server to Forward Queries to Another Name Server



Configuring a Name Server to Forward Some Queries to Other Name Servers



Configuring a Name Server Not to Forward Certain Queries



Returning Different Answers to Different Queriers



Determining the Order in Which a Name Server Returns Answers



Setting Up a Slave Name Server for a Zone in Multiple Views



Disabling Caching



Limiting the Memory a Name Server Uses



Configuring IXFR



Limiting the Size of the IXFR Log File



Configuring a Name Server to Listen Only on Certain Network Interfaces



Running a Name Server on an Alternate Port



Setting Up a Root Name Server



Returning a Default Record



Configuring DNS to Let Clients Find the Closest Server



Handling Dialup Connections



Electronic Mail



Configuring a Backup Mail Server in DNS



Configuring Multiple Mail Servers in DNS



Configuring Mail to Go to One Server and the Web to Another



Configuring DNS for "Virtual" Email Addresses



Configuring DNS So a Mail Server and the Email It Sends Pass Anti-Spam Tests



BIND Name Server Operations



Figuring Out How Much Memory a Name Server Will Need



Testing a Name Server's Configuration



Viewing a Name Server's Cache



Flushing (Clearing) a Name Server's Cache



Modifying Zone Data Without Restarting the Name Server



Adding or Removing Zones Without Restarting or Reloading the Name Server



Initiating a Zone Transfer



Restarting a Name Server Automatically If It Dies



Restarting a Name Server with the Same Arguments



Controlling Multiple named Processes with rndc



Controlling Multiple named Processes with ndc



Finding Out Who's Querying a Name Server



Measuring a Name Server's Performance



Measuring Queries for Records in Particular Zones



Monitoring a Name Server



Limiting Concurrent Zone Transfers



Limiting Concurrent TCP Clients



Limiting Concurrent Recursive Clients



Dynamically Updating a Zone



Sending Dynamic Updates to a Particular Name Server



Setting Prerequisites in a Dynamic Update



Sending TSIG-Signed Dynamic Updates



Setting Up a Backup Primary Master Name Server



Promoting a Slave Name Server to the Primary Master



Running Multiple Primary Master Name Servers for the Same Zone



Creating a Zone Programmatically



Migrating from One Domain Name to Another



Delegation and Registration



Delegating a Subdomain



Delegating a Subdomain of a Reverse-Mapping Zone



Delegating Reverse-Mapping for Networks with Non-Octet Masks



Delegating Reverse-Mapping for Networks Smaller than a /24



Checking Delegation



Moving a Name Server



Changing Your Zone's Name Servers



Security



Concealing a Name Server's Version



Configuring a Name Server to Work with a Firewall (or Vice Versa)



Setting Up a Hidden Primary Master Name Server



Setting Up a Stealth Slave Name Server



Configuring an Authoritative-Only Name Server



Configuring a Caching-Only Name Server



Running a Name Server in a chroot() Jail



Running the Name Server as a User Other than Root



Defining a TSIG Key



Securing Zone Transfers



Restricting the Queries a Name Server Answers



Preventing a Name Server from Querying a Particular Remote Name Server



Preventing a Name Server from Responding to DNS Traffic from Certain Networks



Protecting a Name Server from Spoofing



Interoperability and Upgrading



Upgrading from BIND 4 to BIND 8 or 9



Upgrading from BIND 8 to BIND 9



Configuring a Name Server to Accommodate a Slave Running BIND 4



Configuring a BIND Name Server to Accommodate a Slave Running the Microsoft DNS Server



Configuring a BIND Name Server as a Slave to a Microsoft DNS Server



Preventing Windows Computers from Trying to Update Your Zones



Handling Windows Registration with a BIND Name Server



Handling Active Directory with a Name Server



Configuring a DHCP Server to Update a BIND Name Server



Resolvers and Programming



Configuring a Resolver to Query a Remote Name Server



Configuring a Resolver to Resolve Single-Label Domain Names



Configuring a Resolver to Append Multiple Domain Names to Arguments



Sorting Multiple Addresses in a Response



Changing the Resolver's Timeout



Configuring the Order in Which a Resolver Uses DNS,/etc/hosts, and NIS



Looking Up Records Programmatically



Transferring a Zone Programmatically



Updating a Zone Programmatically



Signing Queries and Dynamic Updates with TSIG Programmatically



Logging and Troubleshooting



Finding a Syntax Error in a named.conf File



Finding a Syntax Error in a Zone Data File



Sending Log Messages to a Particular File



Discarding a Category of Messages



Determining Which Category a Message Is In



Sending syslog Output to Another Host



Logging Dynamic Updates



Rotating Log Files



Looking Up Records with dig



Reverse-Mapping an Address with dig



Transferring a Zone Using dig



Tracing Name Resolution Using dig



IPv6



Configuring a Name Server to Listen for Queries on an IPv6 Interface



Configuring a Name Server to Send Queries from a Particular IPv6 Address



Adding a Host with an IPv6 Interface



Configuring rndc to Work Over IPv6


Index