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| Category: | General - Books | By: | Packt Publishing |
| More info: | www.packtpub.com | Author(s): | Libor Dost lek, Alena Kabelov |
| Pages: | 183 | Year of publication: | 2006 |
The Domain Name System is one of the foundations of the internet. It is the system that allows the translation of human-readable domain names into machines-readable IP addresses and the reverse translation of IP addresses into domain names.This guide to the Domain Name System, its implementation, configuration, & administration covers the basics as well as the more advanced features & uses of DNS. It describes the basic DNS protocol and its extensions; DNS delegation & registration, » Read more... |  |
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The Domain Name System is one of the foundations of the internet. It is the system that allows the translation of human-readable domain names into machines-readable IP addresses and the reverse translation of IP addresses into domain names.This guide to the Domain Name System, its implementation, configuration, & administration covers the basics as well as the more advanced features & uses of DNS. It describes the basic DNS protocol and its extensions; DNS delegation & registration, including for reverse domains; using DNS servers in networks that are not connected to the internet; and using DNS servers on firewall machines. Many examples show configuration & administration tasks.This book is for system administrators & network architects who need to learn how to run & configure DNS servers. A working knowledge of TCP/IP protocols is presumed.Topics a.o.: Basic DNS concepts, such as domains & subdomains, domain naming syntax, reverse domains, zones, queries, resolvers, name servers, forwarder servers; The DNS protocol, focusing on DNS query: several examples of DNS client-server communication. Including an example of a non-existent RR query and its answer, communication with a root server, and TCP and UDP DNS quires; Extension to the DNS protocol, including DNS Update, DNS Notify, Incremental Zone Transfer, Negative caching, DNS IPv6 Extension, DNSsec, & TSIG; Name server implementations, focusing on Bind, versions 4, 8, & 9; Use & configuration of the program named is explained; The Windows 2000 implementation; DNS tuning & administration and tools, such as named-checkconf, named-checkzone, nslookup, dnswalk, dig, & rndc; DNS delegation from a primary to secondary servers.