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 Namespace
2.2. The Internet Domain Namespace
2.3. Delegation
2.4. Nameservers 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. Hostname Checking
4.6. Tools
4.7. Running a Primary Nameserver
4.8. Running a Slave Nameserver
4.9. Adding More Zones
4.10. What's Next?
Chapter 5. DNS and Electronic Mail
5.1. MX Records
5.2. Movie.edu's Mail Server
5.3. What's a Mail Exchanger, Again?
5.4. The MX Algorithm
5.5. DNS and Email Authentication
Chapter 6. Configuring Hosts
6.1. The Resolver
6.2. Resolver Configuration
6.3. Sample Resolver Configurations
6.4. Minimizing Pain and Suffering
6.5. Additional Configuration Files
Chapter 7. Maintaining BIND
7.1. Controlling the Nameserver
7.2. Updating Zone Datafiles
7.3. Organizing Your Files
7.4. Changing System File Locations
7.5. Logging
7.6. Keeping Everything Running Smoothly
Chapter 8. Growing Your Domain
8.1. How Many Nameservers?
8.2. Adding More Nameservers
8.3. Registering Nameservers
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. Nameserver Address Sorting
10.9. Preferring Nameservers on Certain Networks
10.10. A Nonrecursive Nameserver
10.11. Avoiding a Bogus Nameserver
10.12. System Tuning
10.13. Compatibility
10.14. The ABCs of IPv6 Addressing
10.15. Addresses and Ports
Chapter 11. Security
11.1. TSIG
11.2. Securing Your Nameserver
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 Nameserver 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. Architecture
External, Authoritative DNS Infrastructure
Forwarder Infrastructure
Internal DNS Infrastructure
Operations
Keeping Up with DNS and BIND
Chapter 17. Miscellaneous
17.1. Using CNAME Records
17.2. Wildcards
17.3. A Limitation of MX Records
17.4. Dial-up Connections
17.5. Network Names and Numbers
17.6. Additional Resource Records
17.7. ENUM
17.8. Internationalized Domain Names
17.9. DNS and WINS
17.10. DNS, Windows, and Active Directory
Index