DNS HOWTO

Nicolai Langfeldt (janl@linpro.no), Jamie Norrish and others

Version 3.1, 2001-01-18


HOWTO become a totally small time DNS admin.

1. Preamble

1.1. Legal stuff
1.2. Credits and request for help.
1.3. Dedication

2. Introduction.

3. A resolving, caching name server.

3.1. Starting named
3.2. Resolvers
3.3. Congratulations

4. Forwarding

5. A simple domain.

5.1. But first some dry theory
5.2. Our own domain
5.3. The reverse zone
5.4. Words of caution
5.5. Why reverse lookups don't work.
5.6. Slave servers

6. Basic security options.

6.1. Restricting zone transfers
6.2. Protecting against spoofing
6.3. Running named as non-root

7. A real domain example

7.1. /etc/namedb/named.conf
7.2. /var/namedb/named.root
7.3. /etc/namedb/zone/127.0.0
7.4. /etc/namedb/zone/land-5.com
7.5. /etc/namedb/zone/206.6.177

8. Maintenance

9. Converting from version 4 to version 8

10. Questions and Answers

11. How to become a bigger time DNS admin.