HP-UX IP Address and Client Management Administrator's Guide (October 2009)

2 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 accept mail for other hosts.
This chapter provides different configuration procedures to configure BIND on your system. It
discusses the following topics:
• “Creating and Registering a New Domain” (page 63)
• “Configuring the Name Service Switch” (page 64)
• “Choosing Name Servers for Your Domain” (page 64)
• “Types of Resource Records” (page 65)
• “Configuring a Master Name Server” (page 67)
• “Configuring a Slave Name Server” (page 76)
• “Configuring the Caching-Only Name Server” (page 80)
• “Configuring the Resolver to Query a Remote Name Server” (page 81)
• “Configuring the Resolver to Set Timeout Values ” (page 83)
• “Starting the Name Server Daemon” (page 84)
• “Updating Network-Related Files” (page 86)
• “Delegating a Subdomain” (page 86)
• “Configuring a Root Name Server” (page 87)
• “BIND Logging System” (page 88)
• “BIND Security” (page 88)
• “Troubleshooting the BIND Name Server” (page 92)
Creating and Registering a New Domain
To set up a new domain, follow the steps described in this section. If you already have a domain,
you need only add hosts to the existing domain.
The following steps describe how to create a new domain:
1. To assign Internet addresses to the hosts in your domain, you must ask the appropriate
person or organization for a range of Internet addresses.
• If your organization already has a domain on a public network, you must set up a
subdomain.
• If your organization does not have a domain on a public network, and you want to set
one up, you can request a domain registration form from Government Systems, Inc., at
the following address:
Government Systems, Inc.
ATTN: Network Information Center
Chantilly, VA 22021
phone: [phone]
email: [e-mail]
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