DNS HOWTO

Nicolai Langfeldt janl@math.uio.no

1. Preamble

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

2. Introduction.

3. A caching only name server.

• 3.1 Starting named
• 3.2 Making it even better
• 3.3 Congratulations

4. A simple domain.

• 4.1 But first some dry theory
• 4.2 Our own domain
• 4.3 The reverse zone
• 4.4 Words of caution
• 4.5 Why reverse lookups don't work.

5. A real domain example

• 5.1 /etc/named.conf (or /var/named/named.conf)
• 5.2 /var/named/root.hints
• 5.3 /var/named/zone/127.0.0
• 5.4 /var/named/zone/land-5.com
• 5.5 /var/named/zone/206.6.177

6. Maintenance

7. Converting from version 4 to version 8

8. Questions and Answers

9. How to become a bigger time DNS admin.