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Installing and Administering Internet Services: HP 9000 Networking

Chapter 4 Configuring and Administering the BIND Name Service

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Overview of the BIND Name Service

Benefits of Using BIND
The DNS Name Space
How BIND Works
How BIND Resolves Host Names

Creating and Registering a New Domain

Configuring the Name Service Switch

Choosing Name Servers for Your Domain

To Choose the Type of Name Server to Run
To Choose Which Servers Will Be Master Servers

Configuring a Primary Master Name Server

To Create the Data Files for a Primary Master Server
To Set the Default Domain Name
The Primary Master Server's Boot File
The Primary Master Server's Cache File
The db.127.0.0 File
The Primary Master Server's db.domain Files
The Primary Master Server's db.net Files
To Add a Host to the Domain Data Files
To Delete a Host from the Domain Data Files

Configuring a Secondary Master Name Server

To Create the Secondary Master Server's Data Files Using hosts_to_named
To Create the Secondary Master Server's Data Files Manually
To Set the Default Domain Name

Configuring a Caching-Only Name Server

Configuring the Resolver to Query a Remote Name Server

Starting the Name Server Daemon

Verifying the Name Server

Updating Network-Related Files

To Update /etc/hosts.equiv and $HOME/.rhosts
To Update /var/adm/inetd.sec and $HOME/.netrc
To Update /etc/hosts

Delegating a Subdomain

Configuring a Root Name Server

Configuring BIND in sam

Troubleshooting the BIND Name Server

Troubleshooting Tools and Techniques
Problem Symptoms
Name Server Problems
Understanding Name Server Debugging Output
Name Server Statistics

The Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) is a distributed network information lookup service. It allows you to retrieve host names and internet addresses for any node on the network. It also provides mail routing capability by supplying a list of hosts that will accept mail for other hosts. This chapter includes the following sections:

For more information on DNS and BIND, see DNS and BIND, by Paul Albitz and Cricket Liu, published by O'Reilly and Associates, Inc.

RFCs 1034 and 1035, located in the /usr/share/doc directory, explain the DNS database format and domain name structure.

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