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DNS & Bind Cookbook

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Platform and Version Organization Audience Other Books and Resources Conventions Used in This Book Comments and Questions Acknowledgments

1. Getting Started

Introduction Finding More Information About DNS and BIND

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Asking Questions You Can’t Find Answers To

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Getting a List of Top-Level Domains

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Checking Whether a Domain Name Is Registered

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Registering a Domain Name

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Registering Name Servers

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Registering a Reverse-Mapping Domain

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Transferring Your Domain Name to Another Registrar

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Choosing a Version of BIND

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Finding Out Which Version of BIND You’re Running

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Getting BIND

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Building and Installing BIND

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Getting a Precompiled Version of BIND

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Creating a named.conf File

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Configuring a Name Server as the Primary Master for a Zone

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Configuring a Name Server as a Slave for a Zone

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Configuring a Name Server as Authoritative for Multiple Zones

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Starting a Name Server

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Stopping a Name Server

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Starting named at Boot Time

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2. Zone Data

Introduction Creating a Zone Data File

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Adding a Host

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Adding an Alias

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Adding a Mail Destination

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Making the Domain Name of Your Zone Point to Your Web Server

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Pointing a Domain Name to a Particular URL

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Setting Up Round Robin Load Distribution

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Adding a Domain Name in a Subdomain Without Creating a New Zone

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Preventing Remote Name Servers from Caching a Resource Record

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Adding a Multihomed Host

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Updating a Name Server’s Root Hints File

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Using a Single Data File for Multiple Zones

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Using Multiple Data Files for a Single Zone

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Resetting Your Zone’s Serial Number

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Making Manual Changes to a Dynamically Updated Zone

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Moving a Host

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Mapping Any Domain Name in a Zone to a Single IP Address

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Adding Similar Records

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Making Your Services Easy to Find

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Storing the Location of a Host in DNS

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Filtering a Host Table into Zone Data Files

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3. BIND Name Server Configuration

Introduction Configuring a Name Server to Work with ndc

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Configuring a Name Server to Work with rndc

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Using rndc with a Remote Name Server

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Allowing “Illegal” Characters in Domain Names

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Dividing a Large named.conf File into Multiple Files

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Organizing Zone Data Files in Different Directories

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Configuring a Name Server as Slave for All of Your Zones

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Finding an Offsite Slave Name Server for Your Zone

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Protecting a Slave Name Server from Abuse

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Allowing Dynamic Updates

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Configuring a Name Server to Forward Dynamic Updates

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Notifying a Slave Name Server Not in a Zone’s NS Records

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Limiting NOTIFY Messages

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Configuring a Name Server to Forward Queries to Another Name Server

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Configuring a Name Server to Forward Some Queries to Other Name Servers

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Configuring a Name Server Not to Forward Certain Queries

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Returning Different Answers to Different Queriers

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Determining the Order in Which a Name Server Returns Answers

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Setting Up a Slave Name Server for a Zone in Multiple Views

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Disabling Caching

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Limiting the Memory a Name Server Uses

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Configuring IXFR

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Limiting the Size of the IXFR Log File

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Configuring a Name Server to Listen Only on Certain Network Interfaces

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Running a Name Server on an Alternate Port

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Setting Up a Root Name Server

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Returning a Default Record

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Configuring DNS to Let Clients Find the Closest Server

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Handling Dialup Connections

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4. Electronic Mail

Introduction Configuring a Backup Mail Server in DNS

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Configuring Multiple Mail Servers in DNS

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Configuring Mail to Go to One Server and the Web to Another

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Configuring DNS for “Virtual” Email Addresses

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Configuring DNS So a Mail Server and the Email It Sends Pass Anti-Spam Tests

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5. BIND Name Server Operations

Introduction Figuring Out How Much Memory a Name Server Will Need

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Testing a Name Server’s Configuration

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Viewing a Name Server’s Cache

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Flushing (Clearing) a Name Server’s Cache

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Modifying Zone Data Without Restarting the Name Server

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Adding or Removing Zones Without Restarting or Reloading the Name Server

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Initiating a Zone Transfer

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Restarting a Name Server Automatically If It Dies

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Restarting a Name Server with the Same Arguments

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Controlling Multiple named Processes with rndc

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Controlling Multiple named Processes with ndc

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Finding Out Who’s Querying a Name Server

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Measuring a Name Server’s Performance

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Measuring Queries for Records in Particular Zones

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Monitoring a Name Server

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Limiting Concurrent Zone Transfers

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Limiting Concurrent TCP Clients

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Limiting Concurrent Recursive Clients

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Dynamically Updating a Zone

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Sending Dynamic Updates to a Particular Name Server

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Setting Prerequisites in a Dynamic Update

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Sending TSIG-Signed Dynamic Updates

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Setting Up a Backup Primary Master Name Server

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Promoting a Slave Name Server to the Primary Master

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Running Multiple Primary Master Name Servers for the Same Zone

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Creating a Zone Programmatically

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Migrating from One Domain Name to Another

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6. Delegation and Registration

Introduction Delegating a Subdomain

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Delegating a Subdomain of a Reverse-Mapping Zone

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Delegating Reverse-Mapping for Networks with Non-Octet Masks

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Delegating Reverse-Mapping for Networks Smaller than a /24

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Checking Delegation

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Moving a Name Server

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Changing Your Zone’s Name Servers

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7. Security

Introduction Concealing a Name Server’s Version

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Configuring a Name Server to Work with a Firewall (or Vice Versa)

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Setting Up a Hidden Primary Master Name Server

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Setting Up a Stealth Slave Name Server

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Configuring an Authoritative-Only Name Server

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Configuring a Caching-Only Name Server

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Running a Name Server in a chroot( ) Jail

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Running the Name Server as a User Other than Root

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Defining a TSIG Key

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Securing Zone Transfers

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Restricting the Queries a Name Server Answers

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Preventing a Name Server from Querying a Particular Remote Name Server

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Preventing a Name Server from Responding to DNS Traffic from Certain Networks

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Protecting a Name Server from Spoofing

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8. Interoperability and Upgrading

Introduction Upgrading from BIND 4 to BIND 8 or 9

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Upgrading from BIND 8 to BIND 9

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Configuring a Name Server to Accommodate a Slave Running BIND 4

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Configuring a BIND Name Server to Accommodate a Slave Running the Microsoft DNS Server

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Configuring a BIND Name Server as a Slave to a Microsoft DNS Server

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Preventing Windows Computers from Trying to Update Your Zones

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Handling Windows Registration with a BIND Name Server

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Handling Active Directory with a Name Server

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Configuring a DHCP Server to Update a BIND Name Server

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9. Resolvers and Programming

Introduction Configuring a Resolver to Query a Remote Name Server

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Configuring a Resolver to Resolve Single-Label Domain Names

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Configuring a Resolver to Append Multiple Domain Names to Arguments

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Sorting Multiple Addresses in a Response

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Changing the Resolver’s Timeout

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Configuring the Order in Which a Resolver Uses DNS, /etc/hosts, and NIS

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Looking Up Records Programmatically

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Transferring a Zone Programmatically

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Updating a Zone Programmatically

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Signing Queries and Dynamic Updates with TSIG Programmatically

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10. Logging and Troubleshooting

Introduction Finding a Syntax Error in a named.conf File

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Finding a Syntax Error in a Zone Data File

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Sending Log Messages to a Particular File

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Discarding a Category of Messages

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Determining Which Category a Message Is In

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Sending syslog Output to Another Host

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Logging Dynamic Updates

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Rotating Log Files

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Looking Up Records with dig

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Reverse-Mapping an Address with dig

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Transferring a Zone Using dig

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Tracing Name Resolution Using dig

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11. IPv6

Introduction Configuring a Name Server to Listen for Queries on an IPv6 Interface

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Configuring a Name Server to Send Queries from a Particular IPv6 Address

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Adding a Host with an IPv6 Interface

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Configuring rndc to Work Over IPv6

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