DNS & BIND Cookbook

Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: O&#8217;Reilly Media (October 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0596004109
ISBN-13: 978-0596004101

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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 to

Check whether a name is registered
Register your domain name and name servers
Create zone files for your domains
Protect your name server from abuse
Set up back-up mail servers and virtual email addresses
Delegate subdomains and check delegation
Use incremental transfer
Secure zone transfers
Restrict which queries a server will answer
Upgrade to BIND 9 from earlier version
Perform logging and troubleshooting
Use IPv6

and much more.

These recipes encompass all the day-to-day tasks you’re faced with when managing a name server, and many other tasks you’ll face as your site grows. Written by Cricket Liu, a noted authority on DNS, and the author of the bestselling DNS & BIND and DNS on Windows 2000, the DNS & BIND Cookbook belongs in every system or network administrator’s library.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Getting Started
Chapter 2 Zone Data
Chapter 3 BIND Name Server Configuration
Chapter 4 Electronic Mail
Chapter 5 BIND Name Server Operations
Chapter 6 Delegation and Registration
Chapter 7 Security
Chapter 8 Interoperability and Upgrading
Chapter 9 Resolvers and Programming
Chapter 10 Logging and Troubleshooting
Chapter 11 IPv6