Installing and Administering Internet Services

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Conﬁguring and Administering the BIND Name Service

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 73

• “Creating and Registering a New Domain” on page 81

• “Conﬁguring the Name Service Switch” on page 83

• “Choosing Name Servers for Your Domain” on page 84

• “Conﬁguring a Primary Master Name Server” on page 86

• “Conﬁguring a Secondary Master Name Server” on page 118

• “Conﬁguring a Caching-Only Name Server” on page 121

• “Conﬁguring the Resolver to Query a Remote Name Server” on page

123

• “Starting the Name Server Daemon” on page 128

• “Updating Network-Related Files” on page 130

• “Delegating a Subdomain” on page 131

• “Conﬁguring a Root Name Server” on page 132

• “Conﬁguring BIND in SAM” on page 134

• “Troubleshooting the BIND Name Server” on page 136

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 PaulAlbitz 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.