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The same thing is true in the DNS world: A family of Web sites can be loosely described as a domain. For example, the domain linuxhomenetworking.com has a number of children, such as www.linuxhomenetworking.com and mail.linuxhomenetworking.com for th...

2.2.P3-9.i386.rpm. (For more details on downloading RPMs, see Chapter 6, "Installing RPM Software.")...

You can use the chkconfig command to get BIND configured to start at boot: [root@bigboy tmp]# chkconfig named on To start, stop, and restart BIND after booting, use: [root@bigboy tmp]# service named start [root@bigboy tmp]# s...

DNS clients (servers not running BIND) use the /etc/resolv.conf file to determine both the location of their DNS server and the domains to which they belong. The file generally has two columns; the first contains a keyword, and the second contains th...

The Red Hat/Fedora default installation of BIND is configured to convert your Linux box into a caching name server. The only file you have to edit is /etc/resolv.conf; you'll have to comment out the reference to your previous DNS server (most likely ...

Red Hat/Fedora BIND normally runs as the named process owned by the unprivileged named user. Sometimes BIND is also installed using Linux's chroot feature to not only run named as user named, but also to limit the files named can see. When installed...

253.24 with a subnet mask of 255.255.255.248 (/29). Configuring resolv.conf You'll have to make your DNS server refer to itself for all DNS queries by configuring the /etc/resolv.conf file to reference localhost only. nameserver 127.0.0.1...

Here's a quick list of symptoms that indicate your files may not be located correctly. The named daemon starts without loading any zone files. Here is a sample of the /var/log/messages file that shows that named doesn't load them:. Nov 9 17:35:41 ...

It is important to have a detailed migration plan if you currently use an external company to host your Web site and wish to move the site to a server at home or in your office. At the very least your plan should include these steps: ...

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DNS can reveal a lot about the nature of your domain. You should take some precautions to conceal some of the information for the sake of security. Zone Transfer Protection The host command does one DNS query at a time, but the dig command is muc...

This is not always the case. There are situations in which a server's IP address will change unpredictably and frequently, making DNS management extremely difficult. Dynamic DNS was created as a solution to this and is explained in Chapter 19, "...