Alternative DNS Servers Choice and Deployment, and Optional SQLLDAP Back-Ends

747 Pages·2008·11.095 MB·English

by  Jan-Piet Mens

Alternative DNS Servers

Alternative DNS Servers
Choice and deployment, and optional SQL/LDAP back-ends
Jan-Piet Mens
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Contents at a glance
PartI Preparation 1
1 IntroductiontotheDNS 3
2 Howtorepresentzonedataandwheretostoreit 29
3 Preparingforyourimplementation 59
PartII TheDNSservers 73
4 MaraDNS 75
5 MyDNS 95
6 PowerDNSAuthoritativeServer 113
7 AnoverviewofBIND 167
8 BIND’sSimplifiedDatabaseInterface 187
9 BindDLZ 213
10 NameServerDaemon(NSD) 261
11 tinydns 283
12 ldapdns 315
13 dnsmasq 331
14 DNSonMicrosoftWindows 349
15 DNSandPerl 357
16 DNSblacklists 371
17 Cachingnameservers 387
18 DelegationandprivateDNSroots 435
PartIII OperationalIssues 453
19 UpdatingDNSzonesandtheirassociatedrecords 455
20 TheNameServiceSwitch 487
21 InternationalizedDomainNames 497
22 IntroducingDNSSEC 505
23 Performance 545
24 SecuringandmonitoringyourDNSservers 563
Appendixes 579
A Gettingstartedwith(Open)LDAP 579
B Use$INCLUDEandfixyourSOA 604
C BINDSDB 607
D BindDLZ 615
E PerlDNSnameservers 621
F UserDefinedFunctionsinMySQL 629
G Bitsandpieces 637
H ScriptingPowerDNSRecursorwiththeLuaprogramminglanguage 645
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