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Chapter 2 Configuring and Administering the BIND Name Service
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Creating and Registering a New Domain
Configuring the Name Service Switch
Choosing Name Servers for Your Domain
Choosing the Type of Name Server
Choosing Master Servers and Slave Servers
Types of Resource Records
Configuring a Master Name Server
Creating the Data Files for a Master Server
Setting the Default Domain Name
Master Server Configuration File
Master Server Cache File
The db.127.0.0 File
Master Server db.domain Files
Master Server db.net Files
Adding a Host to the Domain Data Files
Deleting a Host from the Domain Data Files
Configuring a Slave Name Server
Creating Slave Server Data Files Using hosts_to_named
Creating the Slave Server’s Data Files Manually
Setting the Default Domain Name
Configuring the Caching-Only Name Server
Configuring the Resolver to Query a Remote Name Server
Configuring the Resolver to Set Timeout Values
Configuring Timeout Values Using Environment Variables
Configuring Timeout Values Using the Configuration File
Configuring Timeout Values Using APIs
Sample Program with Timeout Values
Starting the Name Server Daemon
Verifying the Name Server
Updating Network-Related Files
Updating /etc/hosts.equiv and $HOME/.rhosts
Updating /var/adm/inetd.sec and $HOME/.netrc
Updating /etc/hosts
Delegating a Subdomain
Example of Delegating a Subdomain
Configuring a Root Name Server
BIND Logging System
BIND Security
TSIG-Based Security
DNSSEC – A DNS Security Extension
Compartmentalizing BIND
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 accept mail for other hosts.

This chapter provides different configuration procedures to configure BIND on your system. It discusses the following topics:



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