Name Server Operations Guide
for BIND

Release 4.9.4

Releases from 4.9
Paul Vixie[1]
<paul@vix.com>

Internet Software Consortium
La Honda, CA

Releases through 4.8.3
Kevin J. Dunlap[2]
Michael J. Karels

Computer Systems Research Group
Computer Science Division
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720

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Table of Contents

• Introduction
• The Name Service
• Types of Zones
• Types of Servers
  • Caching Only Server
  • Remote Server
  • Slave Server
• Files
  • Boot File
    • Domain
    • Directory
    • Primary Service
    • Secondary Service
    • Stub Service
    • Cache Initialization
    • Forwarders
    • Slave Servers
    • Nonrecursive Servers
    • Query Logging
    • Inverse Query Pseudosupport
    • Setting Name Server Limits
    • Zone Transfer Restrictions
    • Sorting Addresses
    • Bogus Name Servers
    • Segmented Boot Files
  • Resolver Configuration
  • Cache Initialization File
    • root.cache
  • Domain Data Files
    • hosts
    • hosts.rev
    • named.local
  • Standard Resource Record Format
    • $INCLUDE
    • $ORIGIN
    • SOA - Start Of Authority
    • NS - Name Server
    • A - Address
    • HINFO - Host Information
    • WKS - Well Known Services
    • CNAME - Canonical Name
    • PTR - Domain Name Pointer
    • MX - Mail Exchange
    • TXT - Text
    • RP - Responsible Person
    • AFSDB - DCE or AFS Server
    • PX - Pointer to X.400/RFC822 mapping information
  • Discussion about the TTL
  • About ``secure zones''
  • About Hesiod, and HS-class Resource Records
  • Sample Files
    • Boot Files
      • Primary Server
      • Secondary Server
      • Caching Only Server
    • Remote Server / DNS Client
      • /etc/resolv.conf
    • root.cache
    • named.local
    • host.rev
    • Hosts
• Setting up Your Own Domain
  • Internet
  • Subdomains of Existing Domains
• Domain Management
  • /etc/rc.local
  • /var/run/named.pid
  • /etc/hosts
  • Signals
    • Reload
    • Debugging
• Building a System with a Name Server
  • Resolver Routines in libc
• Notes