DNS Resources This page contains a list of DNS resources which I use. If you know of any others, please add your comments. http://www.intac.com/~cdp/cptd-faq/ If you don’t know the differences between BIND, DNS, and named, you should read the above URL before doing anything. http://www.ludd.luth.se/~kavli/BIND-FAQ.html The above is titled "Setting up a basic DNS server […]
Private DNS As a follow-up on the Secondary DNS article, I thought I would write about how I created a private DNS. In this context, a private DNS is restricted to certain sites or locations. If you are this interested in DNS, I suggest you purchase the DNS and Bind book. It’s what I have
How to reload your zone files This article talks about how to tell named to reload your zone files. ndc ndc is the name daemon control interface. You can use it to send various signals to the name server. In the past I’ve always used kill or killall to restart named. But lately I’ve started
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samba – using non-standard host names This article shows you how to use non-standard host names. By default, samba uses the hostname of the machine on which it is running. In some situations this can cause a problem. The problem Some time ago, I installed samba and recently I found it wasn’t working. I could
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lame name servers This topic deals with an entry I found in /var/log/messages: Jan 11 09:14:19 ns named[91]: Lame server on ‘desstats.distributed.net’ (in ‘DISTRIBUTED.NET’?): [207.158.192.40].53 ‘NS.NAMESERVERS.net’: learnt (A=195.8.99.11,NS=128.8.10.90) In short, it means that your name server was told that that a given name server would contain information about a given domain. But it didn’t. It
httpd/dns – adding new domains to your system This entry describes how to change an existing webpage on an Apache webserver so that it answers to a new domain. I’m doing this because ml.org no longer exists. Hence, the two domains I had under that structure which are now dead. I have recently registered
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ndc – how to see lots of DNS information When I was adding some new virtual domains, I had some trouble figuring out why only I could see the websites. One of the tools I used to solve this problem was ndc. I issued two commands: su-2.02# ndc dumpdb Dumping Database su-2.02# ndc stats Dumping
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dnswalk – a useful DNS tool see also nslint. When I was adding some new virtual domains, I had some trouble figuring out why only I could see the websites. One of the tools I used to solve this problem was dnswalk. Installation The first step was to install dnswalk from the ports. I followed
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Secondary name servers – how to be a backup DNS for someone else This topic was incomplete for far too long. My apologies. I finished it on 7 July 1999. In this article, references to a "zone" are often made. In simple terms, you can think of a zone as a domain. In practice, a
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DNS – restricting zone transfers When you provide DNS, you are giving out a lot of information. It can give a hacker a great deal of information. Just by using a simple tool like nslookup, you can accomplish a zone transfer. To restrict your zone transfers to specified IP addresses, use the boot file directive
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