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Documentation and tools.
Real Documentation exists. Online and in print. The reading of
several of these is required to make the step from small time DNS
admin to a big time one.
I have written The Concise Guide to DNS and BIND (by Nicolai
Langfeldt, me), published by Que (ISBN 0-7897-2273-9). The book is
much like this HOWTO, just more details, and a lot more of everything.
It has also been translated to Polish and published as DNS i BIND
by Helion (
http://helion.pl/ksiazki/dnsbin.htm, ISBN
83-7197-446-9). Now in 4th edition is DNS and BIND by Cricket
Liu and P. Albitz from O'Reilly & Associates (ISBN 0-937175-82-X,
affectionately known as the Cricket book). Another book is Linux
DNS Server Administration, by Craig Hunt, published by Sybex (ISBN
0782127363), I have not read it yet. Another must for good DNS
administration (or good anything for that matter) is Zen and the
Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig.
Online you will find my book, along with tons of other books,
available electronically as a subscription service at
http://safari.informit.com/. There is stuff on
http://www.dns.net/dnsrd/ (DNS Resources Directory),
http://www.isc.org/bind.html; A FAQ, a reference manual (the
ARM should be enclosed in the BIND distribution as well) as well as
papers and protocol definitions and DNS hacks (these, and most, if not
all, of the RFCs mentioned below, are also contained in the BIND
distribution). I have not read most of these. The newsgroup
news:comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains is about DNS. In addition
there are a number of RFCs about DNS, the most important are probably
the ones listed here. Those that have BCP (Best Current Practice)
numbers are highly recommended.
- RFC 2671
P. Vixie, Extension Mechanisms for DNS (EDNS0)
August 1999.
- RFC 2317
BCP 20, H. Eidnes et. al. Classless IN-ADDR.ARPA
delegation, March 1998. This is about CIDR, or classless subnet
reverse lookups.
- RFC 2308
M. Andrews, Negative Caching of DNS Queries,
March 1998. About negative caching and the $TTL zone file
directive.
- RFC 2219
BCP 17, M. Hamilton and R. Wright, Use of DNS
Aliases for Network Services, October 1997. About
CNAME usage.
- RFC 2182
BCP 16, R. Elz et. al., Selection and Operation
of Secondary DNS Servers, July 1997.
- RFC 2052
A. Gulbrandsen, P. Vixie, A DNS RR for specifying
the location of services (DNS SRV), October 1996
- RFC 1918
Y. Rekhter, R. Moskowitz, D. Karrenberg, G. de Groot,
E. Lear, Address Allocation for Private Internets, 02/29/1996.
- RFC 1912
D. Barr, Common DNS Operational and Configuration
Errors, 02/28/1996.
- RFC 1912 Errors
B. Barr Errors in RFC 1912. Only
available at
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/~barr/rfc1912-errors.html
- RFC 1713
A. Romao, Tools for DNS debugging, 11/03/1994.
- RFC 1712
C. Farrell, M. Schulze, S. Pleitner, D. Baldoni,
DNS Encoding of Geographical Location, 11/01/1994.
- RFC 1183
R. Ullmann, P. Mockapetris, L. Mamakos, C. Everhart,
New DNS RR Definitions, 10/08/1990.
- RFC 1035
P. Mockapetris, Domain names - implementation and
specification, 11/01/1987.
- RFC 1034
P. Mockapetris, Domain names - concepts and
facilities, 11/01/1987.
- RFC 1033
M. Lottor, Domain administrators operations
guide, 11/01/1987.
- RFC 1032
M. Stahl, Domain administrators guide,
11/01/1987.
- RFC 974
C. Partridge, Mail routing and the domain system,
01/01/1986.
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