Dns and Bind - Brossura

Albitz, Paul; Liu, Cricket

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0596001584 ISBN 13: 9780596001582

Casa editrice: Oreilly & Associates Inc, 2001

Riassunto

DNS and BIND is about 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 many other services. As the authors say in the preface, if you're using the Internet, you're already using DNS--even if you don't know it.This edition brings you up to date on the new 9.1.0 and 8.2.3 versions of BIND along with the older 4.9 version. There's also more extensive coverage of NOTIFY, IPv6 forward and reverse mapping, transaction signatures, and the new DNS Security Extensions; and a new section on accommodating Windows 2000 clients, servers and Domain Controllers.Whether you're an administrator involved daily with DNS or a user who wants to be more informed about the Internet and how it works, you'll find this book 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 name space
• 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 name servers, etc.
• Mapping one name to several servers for load sharing
• Troubleshooting: using nslookup, reading debugging output, common problems
• DNS programming, using the resolver library and Perl's Net::DNS module

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Paul Albitz is a software engineer at Hewlett-Packard. Paul earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Wisconsin, LaCrosse, and a Master of Science degree from Purdue University. Paul worked on BIND for the HP-UX 7.0 and 8.0 releases. During this time Paul developed the tools used to run the hp.com domain. More recently he has been involved in networking HP's DesignJet plotter. Before joining HP, Paul was a system administrator in the CS Department of Purdue University. As system administrator, Paul ran versions of BIND before BIND's initial release with 4.3 BSD. Paul and his wife Katherine live in San Diego, CA.

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 friend (and now co-author) Matt Larson. Network Solutions acquired Acme in June 2000, and later the same day merged with VeriSign. Cricket worked for a year as Director of DNS Product Management for VeriSign Global Registry Services. Cricket joined Men & Mice, an Icelandic company specializing in DNS software and services, in September, 2001. He is currently their Vice President, Research & Development. Cricket, his wife, Paige, and their son, Walt, live in Colorado with two Siberian Huskies, Annie and Dakota. On warm weekend afternoons, you'll probably find them on the flying trapeze or wakeboarding behind Betty Blue.

Contenuti:

Preface; Versions; What’s New in the Fourth Edition?; Organization; Audience; Obtaining the Example Programs; Contacting O’Reilly; Conventions Used in This Book; Quotations; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Background; 1.1 A (Very) Brief History of the Internet; 1.2 On the Internet and internets; 1.3 The Domain Name System in a Nutshell; 1.4 The History of BIND; 1.5 Must I Use DNS?; Chapter 2: How Does DNS Work?; 2.1 The Domain Name Space; 2.2 The Internet Domain Name Space; 2.3 Delegation; 2.4 Name Servers and Zones; 2.5 Resolvers; 2.6 Resolution; 2.7 Caching; Chapter 3: Where Do I Start?; 3.1 Getting BIND; 3.2 Choosing a Domain Name; Chapter 4: Setting Up BIND; 4.1 Our Zone; 4.2 Setting Up Zone Data; 4.3 Setting Up a BIND Configuration File; 4.4 Abbreviations; 4.5 Host Name Checking (BIND 4.9.4 and Later Versions); 4.6 Tools; 4.7 Running a Primary Master Name Server; 4.8 Running a Slave Name Server; 4.9 Adding More Zones; 4.10 What Next?; Chapter 5: DNS and Electronic Mail; 5.1 MX Records; 5.2 What’s a Mail Exchanger, Again?; 5.3 The MX Algorithm; Chapter 6: Configuring Hosts; 6.1 The Resolver; 6.2 Sample Resolver Configurations; 6.3 Minimizing Pain and Suffering; 6.4 Vendor -Specific Options; Chapter 7: Maintaining BIND; 7.1 Controlling the Name Server; 7.2 Updating Zone Data Files; 7.3 Organizing Your Files; 7.4 Changing System File Locations in BIND 8 and 9; 7.5 Logging in BIND 8 and 9; 7.6 Keeping Everything Running Smoothly; Chapter 8: Growing Your Domain; 8.1 How Many Name Servers?; 8.2 Adding More Name Servers; 8.3 Registering Name Servers; 8.4 Changing TTLs; 8.5 Planning for Disasters; 8.6 Coping with Disaster; Chapter 9: Parenting; 9.1 When to Become a Parent; 9.2 How Many Children?; 9.3 What to Name Your Children; 9.4 How to Become a Parent: Creating Subdomains; 9.5 Subdomains of in-addr.arpa Domains; 9.6 Good Parenting; 9.7 Managing the Transition to Subdomains; 9.8 The Life of a Parent; Chapter 10: Advanced Features; 10.1 Address Match Lists and ACLs; 10.2 DNS Dynamic Update; 10.3 DNS NOTIFY (Zone Change Notification); 10.4 Incremental Zone Transfer (IXFR); 10.5 Forwarding; 10.6 Views; 10.7 Round Robin Load Distribution; 10.8 Name Server Address Sorting; 10.9 Preferring Name Servers on Certain Networks; 10.10 A Nonrecursive Name Server; 10.11 Avoiding a Bogus Name Server; 10.12 System Tuning; 10.13 Compatibility; 10.14 The ABCs of IPv6 Addressing; 10.15 Addresses and Ports; 10.16 IPv6 Forward and Reverse Mapping; Chapter 11: Security; 11.1 TSIG; 11.2 Securing Your Name Server; 11.3 DNS and Internet Firewalls; 11.4 The DNS Security Extensions; Chapter 12: nslookup and dig; 12.1 Is nslookup a Good Tool?; 12.2 Interactive Versus Noninteractive; 12.3 Option Settings; 12.4 Avoiding the Search List; 12.5 Common Tasks; 12.6 Less Common Tasks; 12.7 Troubleshooting nslookup Problems; 12.8 Best of the Net; 12.9 Using dig; Chapter 13: Reading BIND Debugging Output; 13.1 Debugging Levels; 13.2 Turning On Debugging; 13.3 Reading Debugging Output; 13.4 The Resolver Search Algorithm and Negative Caching (BIND 8); 13.5 The Resolver Search Algorithm and Negative Caching (BIND 9); 13.6 Tools; Chapter 14: Troubleshooting DNS and BIND; 14.1 Is NIS Really Your Problem?; 14.2 Troubleshooting Tools and Techniques; 14.3 Potential Problem List; 14.4 Transition Problems; 14.5 Interoperability and Version Problems; 14.6 TSIG Errors; 14.7 Problem Symptoms; Chapter 15: Programming with the Resolver and Name Server Library Routines; 15.1 Shell Script Programming with nslookup; 15.2 C Programming with the Resolver Library Routines; 15.3 Perl Programming with Net::DNS; Chapter 16: Miscellaneous; 16.1 Using CNAME Records; 16.2 Wildcards; 16.3 A Limitation of MX Records; 16.4 Dialup Connections; 16.5 Network Names and Numbers; 16.6 Additional Resource Records; 16.7 DNS and WINS; 16.8 DNS and Windows 2000; DNS Message Format and Resource Records; Master File Format; DNS Messages; Resource Record Data; BIND Compatibility Matrix; Compiling and Installing BIND on Linux; Instructions for BIND 8.2.3; Instructions for BIND 9.1.0; Top-Level Domains; BIND Name Server and Resolver Configuration; BIND Name Server Boot File Directives and Configuration File Statements; BIND 4 Boot File Directives; BIND 8 Configuration File Statements; BIND 9 Configuration File Statements; BIND Resolver Statements; Colophon;

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Oreilly & Associates Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0596001584
• ISBN 13: 9780596001582
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 4
• Numero di pagine: 601