Organization

Chapter 1, covers what you need to know to get started with a BIND name server: downloading and compiling BIND, registering a new domain name and configuring a name server. Chapter 2, describes how to create a zone data file and add records to it. Chapter 3, covers configuring BIND 8 and 9 name servers, from setting a name server's working directory to serving multiple views of a single zone.

Chapter 4, describes how to set up email destinations, while Chapter 5, covers topics in name server control and management. Chapter 6, describes both how to establish and police delegation from your zone to its subzones, and how to manage the delegation to your zone from its parent.

The last five chapters deal with more specialized topics. Chapter 7, contains recipes on securing your name server against various types of attacks. Chapter 8, describes the pitfalls of running multiple versions of BIND name servers or heterogeneous name server environments, and warns of gotchas when upgrading from one version of BIND to another. Chapter 9, describes both basic resolver configuration and simple resolver programming using Perl's Net::DNS module. Chapter 10, provides troubleshooting tips. Finally, Chapter 11, covers IPv6: setting up a name server to respond to IPv6-based queries, and handling the forward- and reverse-mapping of hosts with IPv6 addresses.