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| Introduction | |
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| About This Book | |
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| How to Use This Book | |
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| What You Don't Need to Read | |
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| Foolish Assumptions | |
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| How This Book Is Organized | |
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| Icons Used In This Book | |
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| Where to Go from Here | |
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| How DNS Makes the Internet Go 'Round | |
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| The Basics of DNS | |
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| A Short History of the Internet | |
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| I Introduce Thee to TCP/IP | |
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| The OSI model | |
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| Wrap it up: Encapsulation | |
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| DNS: What It Is and What It Does | |
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| Seeing the DNS Difference | |
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| Setting Up Your Systems to Use DNS | |
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| Serving DNS with Windows | |
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| Getting your name on Unix | |
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| Organizing and Subdividing DNS | |
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| Making DNS Work Harder, Safer, and Better | |
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| DNS Namespaces | |
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| Playing the Domain Name Game | |
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| Back Off--You're in My DNS Namespace! | |
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| Planning Your DNS Namespace | |
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| Planning a namespace for Internet or corporate applications | |
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| Planning a namespace for Microsoft Windows Active Directory | |
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| Whose Name Is It, Anyway? (Top-Level Domains) | |
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| The DNS Request Process | |
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| Making the Connection | |
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| Layer 3: I see IP | |
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| Getting from A to B | |
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| Dealing with Decimals | |
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| A Cure for Growing Pains: IPv6 | |
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| Getting Down to Business | |
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| Taking a Close Look with NSLOOKUP | |
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| Facilitating Other Applications with DNS | |
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| Getting into E-Mail | |
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| Understanding MX Records | |
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| Using Multiple MX Records | |
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| Configuring Mail Servers As Mail Exchangers | |
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| Microsoft Exchange 2000 | |
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| qmail | |
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| Multi-Tier Applications and DNS | |
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| Microsoft Active Directory and DNS | |
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| Working with DNS Clients | |
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| Configuring a DNS Client | |
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| Making the Server Connection | |
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| Getting Your Client a Windows Seat | |
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| Windows sherbert: It's mulitflavored! | |
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| Working with older versions of Windows | |
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| Penguins Like DNS Too (Linux) | |
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| Using the DNS Clients on Your System | |
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| Discovering the Two Types of DNS Clients | |
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| Looking at Resolvers and What They Do for DNS | |
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| Working with the Windows resolver | |
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| Changing the behavior of the Windows resolver | |
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| Finding the Integrated DNS Clients in Windows | |
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| Using the Command-Line Client (NSLOOKUP) in Windows | |
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| Using NSLOOKUP in batch mode | |
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| Using NSLOOKUP in interactive mode | |
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| Finding the DNS Clients in Unix/Linux | |
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| Using Command-Line Clients with Unix/Linux | |
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| Using NSLOOKUP | |
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| Using DIG | |
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| WHOIS | |
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| WHOIS in Windows | |
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| WHOIS in Unix | |
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| Working with DNS Servers | |
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| Installing a Microsoft DNS Server | |
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| Providing DNS Services with Windows 2000 or Windows .NET Server | |
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| Making DNS Come Alive with Active Directory | |
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| Installin a DNS Server on Windows NT 4.0 | |
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| Getting Under the Hood: DNS Service Configuration | |
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| Working with Windows 2000 and Windows .NET Server | |
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| Working with Windows NT 4.0 | |
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| Unix Domain Name Servers | |
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| Installing BIND the Easy Way | |
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| Getting to the Source | |
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| Making Changes to BIND | |
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| Getting BIND running | |
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| Changing BIND configuration files | |
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| How to make cache | |
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| Zoned out | |
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| Make It Go! No, Wait--Make It Stop! | |
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| RNDC Isn't a Rap Group | |
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| The Details: Setting Up Your DNS Zones | |
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| The Basics: Zones and Records | |
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| Understanding DNS Zones | |
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| Forward lookup zones | |
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| Reverse lookup zones | |
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| DNS Records | |
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| Record Types | |
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| Working with Windows | |
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| Moving forward in Windows | |
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| Adding records to the zone | |
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| Adding another record type | |
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| Windows in reverse | |
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| Making Use of Unix | |
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| Forward-looking Unix | |
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| New reverse zones in Unix | |
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| Splitting the load: include statements | |
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| Using Subdomains | |
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| Configuring Subdomains in Windows DNS | |
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| Configuring Subdomains in BIND | |
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| Taking the easy way out | |
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| Serious subdomains | |
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| Security and Advanced DNS Tricks | |
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| An Antidote for a Poisoned Cache: DNS Security | |
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| Potential DNS Security Issues | |
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| Server security | |
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| External and internal DNS | |
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| Poisoned DNS | |
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| Leaky seals | |
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| Securing DNS on Windows | |
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| Restricting zone transfers | |
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| Restricting interfaces | |
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| Zone ACLs | |
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| Dynamic DNS security | |
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| Save the planet--stop cache pollution | |
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| Securing DNS (BIND) on Unix | |
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| Transaction signatures and control security | |
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| Using codes: Encryption | |
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| Securing zone transfers | |
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| Restricting interfaces | |
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| Dynamic DNS security | |
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| Controlling access | |
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| Running BIND in a jail | |
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| What Else Can DNS Do? | |
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| A Dynamic Scavenger | |
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| Understanding Dynamic DNS | |
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| Enabling dynamic DNS on a Windows server | |
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| Dynamic DNS and BIND | |
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| Keeping things fresh | |
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| Feel the Burn: Handling Heavy Loads | |
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| The round robin is on the window | |
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| Configuring round robin DNS on BIND | |
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| Sending Notice | |
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| Using NOTIFY on Windows 2000 and Windows .NET | |
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| Working with NOTIFY on BIND | |
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| Moving in Increments | |
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| Split DNS | |
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| Using DNS and WINS | |
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| Forward zone WINS integration | |
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| Reverse zone WINS integration | |
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| "It Doesn't Work!" (Troubleshooting) | |
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| Troubleshooting Microsoft Windows DNS | |
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| Troubleshooting BIND | |
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| The Part of Tens | |
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| Ten DNS Services and Resources | |
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| Services That Need DNS | |
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| The World Wide Web | |
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| E-mail | |
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| Games | |
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| Instant messaging | |
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| Microsoft Active Directory | |
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| Multiple-tier applications | |
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| System administration | |
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| Finding More Information | |
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| BIND on RedHat Linux | |
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| DNS and Active Directory | |
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| The Web site | |
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| Ten Things Even Experienced People Do to Make DNS Break | |
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| Syntax, Syntax, Syntax | |
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| Forget the Trailing Period | |
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| Fail to Keep Your @ in Order | |
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| Mix Names and IP | |
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| Don't Apply Changes | |
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| Don't Increment | |
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| Foret That Pointing Is Okay | |
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| Timeout: Long and Short | |
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| Use Unannounced Servers and MX Records | |
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| The Top Ten Tips for Maintaining a Manageable DNS Server | |
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| Slice It Up with Subdomains | |
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| Save Yourself the Legwork | |
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| Keep Things Consistent | |
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| Section Zone Files | |
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| Comment Your Code | |
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| Batteries Not Included (include Statements) | |
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| Back Up in Case You Blow Up | |
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| Make a Log and Check It Twice | |
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| The Top Ten DNS Server Design Considerations | |
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| Keeping the Server Secure | |
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| In Case of Emergency | |
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| Don't Put All the Eggs in One Basket | |
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| Less Is More | |
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| Thanks for the Memory | |
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| Processing Power! | |
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| Room to Move: Bandwidth | |
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| Maintenance Free? | |
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| There Is No Free Lunch | |
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| Using the DNSCMD Utility | |
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| Installing the DNSCMD Utility | |
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| Using the DNSCMD Utility | |
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| Gathering information | |
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| Changing the server configuration | |
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| Changing the zone configuration | |
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| Configuring records | |
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| Using Webmin for BIND Administration | |
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| Get In with Webmin | |
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| Using packages | |
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| Starting at the source | |
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| "How Do I Use This Thing?" | |
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| Making Webmin play with BIND | |
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| Exploring the BIND module | |
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| Other DNS Server Applications | |
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| Windows-Based DNS Servers | |
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| Get 'em in a BIND | |
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| Incognito DNS Commander | |
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| Simple DNS Plus: Keep it simple and then some | |
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| Unix DNS Server Applications | |
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| TinyDNS (djbdns) | |
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| Incognito DNS Commander | |
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| Index | |