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- What? We're on the last page of this web site and you still haven't bought the bible, yet?
DNS and BIND, 3rd edition, O'Reilly.
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and then ....
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The primary BIND web site is, of course, the industry-sponsored consortium responsible for developing and maintaining BIND, ISC.
If you want to master BIND, then sign-up for the ISC
BIND users mailing list. It's very active and has some really excellent contributors, such as these "list stars" whose messages I suggest you pay attention to:- Barry Margolin
- Cricket "his bug is on the cover" Liu
- Jim Reid
- Joseph S D Rao
- Kevin Darcy
- Mark Andrews
- Michael Voight
- Ralf Hildebrandt
- Thor Kottelin
Here's the ISC detailed technical reference for named.conf:
BIND on-line configuration documentation
ISC's BIND Operations Guide for BIND4 but much of the detailed info is still valid.
Acme Byte & Wire is probably the 2nd best DNS site. This is the site of Cricket Liu who co-wrote the BIND and DNS book and is working on a new edtion for BIND 9.
Ask Mr DNS facility on the Acme site is a searchable DNS/BIND FAQ + list archive, superb!
Before you ask your questions in the ISC BIND users list, please go Ask Mr. DNS first.
AcmeBW's BIND Messages page is helpful for figuring out what BIND is telling you.
- Particularly important is Cricket Liu's doucment on how to secure DNS
Securing an Internet Name Server.
- In the BIND-doc.zip file on my Downloads page, there is a /doc/html/index.html page which to many other useful pages, especially the BIND options explanations.
- TUCOW's DNS How-To is very well done and popular.
- The
TUCOW's DNS How-To .PDF (for Linux) is just DNS & BIND info so nearly all of it applies to BIND8/NT.
- The
RFC2870 Root Name Server Operational Requirements but contains many point applicable to any public DNS machine.
- The DNS Resources Directory is a classic source full of information and links.
- Björk may be Iceland's most famous dottir but DNS Expert is Iceland's best DNS analysis product. DNS Expert from Men & Mice (an excellent, informative web site. Do you know what "DNS spoofing" is? Visit M&M to find out. ) will
analyze a domain's DNS records thoroughly and give a superb report with errors and warnings explained. If you are novice or advanced in DNS, you'll use this tool every day, every time you touch your DNS config, update or create a zone. Helps you keep your DNS in perfect shape, especially when you've got tons of zones and tons of changes.
Before you put your DNS on-line, use DNS Expert's "unregistered nameserver" mode to verify all your zones, forward and reverse.
Unfortunately (.. for you. I got my copy earlier.), M&M have recently raised their prices (actually removed the lower-priced analyze-one-zone-at-a-time version), but it's still great value for money, easily amortized over the 1000's of times you'll run it. M&M have a full-function, time-limited, downloadable evaluation version. Download right now, check your own zones today.
Novices should not be without it.
- The network utility Net Scan Tools from
North West Pacific Software.
- Similar but free utility is: CyberKit.
This is a great site for checking out your DNS, ip block, and reverse zones: Sam Spade. Who has authority for your ip block? Is your reverse zone correct, or even show up? SamSpade can tell you.
SamSpade has an excellent, free tool for Windows with on-line help: SamSpade tool
- Another good site in the same category with Sam Spade: Geek Tools
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Unix dig 2.2 for Win32, 64 kbytes. With nslookup being deprecated by the Unix crowd in favor of dig, I recommend that you use this 'dig' command line tool for Win32 for your DNS investigations. Doc is "dig help".
Zip'n'All, 1.8 mbytes. Win32 compression utility with .tar and .gz support.