Installing and Administering Internet Services

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Configuring and Administering the BIND Name Service
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:
• “Overview of the BIND Name Service” on page 61
• “Creating and Registering a New Domain” on page 68
• “Configuring the Name Service Switch” on page 70
• “Choosing Name Servers for Your Domain” on page 71
• “Configuring a Primary Master Name Server” on page 73
• “Configuring a Secondary Master Name Server” on page 86
• “Configuring a Caching-Only Name Server” on page 89
• “Configuring the Resolver to Query a Remote Name Server” on page
91
• “Starting the Name Server Daemon” on page 93
• “Updating Network-Related Files” on page 95
• “Delegating a Subdomain” on page 96
• “Configuring a Root Name Server” on page 97
• “Configuring BIND in SAM” on page 99
• “Troubleshooting the BIND Name Server” on page 100
For more detailed technical and conceptual information about BIND, as
well as information about planning a BIND hierarchy and using
sendmail with BIND, we strongly recommend you see DNS and BIND,
by Paul Albitz and Cricket Liu, published by O’Reilly and Associates, Inc.
Note that you can get information about the book (including retail
outlets where you can buy it, as well as how to order it directly from
O’Reilly) by visiting the O’Reilly WWW site:
http://www.ora.com
Once you are at the O’Reilly site, look in the catalog, under the category
“System and Network Administration.” The above book is listed under
“Network Administration.”
RFCs 1034 and 1035, located in the /usr/share/doc directory, explain
the DNS database format and domain name structure.