comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains Frequently Asked Questions
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.Index
- Section 1. TO DO / UPDATES
- Q1.1. Contributions needed
- Q1.2. UPDATES / Changes since last posting
- Section 2. INTRODUCTION / MISCELLANEOUS
- Q2.1. What is this newsgroup ?
- Q2.2. More information
- Q2.3. What is BIND ?
- Q2.4. What is the difference between BIND and DNS ?
- Q2.5. Where is the latest version of BIND located ?
- Q2.6. How can I find the path taken between two systems/domains ?
- Q2.7. How do you find the hostname given the TCP-IP address ?
- Q2.8. How do I register a domain ?
- Q2.9. How can I change the IP address of our server ?
- Q2.10. Issues when changing your domain name
- Q2.11. How memory and CPU does DNS use ?
- Q2.12. Other things to consider when planning your servers
- Q2.13. Reverse domains (IN-ADDR.ARPA) and their delegation
- Q2.14. How do I get my address assigned from the NIC ?
- Q2.15. Is there a block of private IP addresses I can use?
- Q2.16. Does BIND cache negative answers (failed DNS lookups) ?
- Q2.17. What does an NS record really do ?
- Q2.18. DNS ports
- Q2.19. What is the cache file
- Q2.20. Obtaining the latest cache file
- Q2.21. Selecting a nameserver/root cache
- Q2.22. Domain names and legal issues
- Q2.23. Iterative and Recursive lookups
- Q2.24. Dynamic DNS
- Q2.25. What version of bind is running on a server ?
- Q2.26. BIND and Y2K
- Section 3. UTILITIES
- Q3.1. Utilities to administer DNS zone files
- Q3.2. DIG - Domain Internet Groper
- Q3.3. DNS packet analyzer
- Q3.4. host
- Q3.5. How can I use DNS information in my program?
- Q3.6. A source of information relating to DNS
- Section 4. DEFINITIONS
- Q4.1. TCP/IP Host Naming Conventions
- Q4.2. What are slaves and forwarders ?
- Q4.3. When is a server authoritative?
- Q4.4. My server does not consider itself authoritative !
- Q4.5. NS records don't configure servers as authoritative ?
- Q4.6. underscore in host-/domainnames
- Q4.7. How do I turn the "_" check off ?
- Q4.8. What is lame delegation ?
- Q4.9. How can I see if the server is "lame" ?
- Q4.10. What does opt-class field in a zone file do?
- Q4.11. Top level domains
- Q4.12. US Domain
- Q4.13. Classes of networks
- Q4.14. What is CIDR ?
- Q4.15. What is the rule for glue ?
- Q4.16. What is a stub record/directive ?
- Section 5. CONFIGURATION
- Q5.1. Upgrading from 4.9.x to 8.x
- Q5.2. Changing a Secondary server to a Primary server ?
- Q5.3. Moving a Primary server to another server
- Q5.4. How do I subnet a Class B Address ?
- Q5.5. Subnetted domain name service
- Q5.6. Recommended format/style of DNS files
- Q5.7. DNS on a system not connected to the Internet
- Q5.8. Multiple Domain configuration
- Q5.9. wildcard MX records
- Q5.10. How do you identify a wildcard MX record ?
- Q5.11. Why are fully qualified domain names recommended ?
- Q5.12. Distributing load using named
- Q5.13. Round robin IS NOT load balancing
- Q5.14. Order of returned records
- Q5.15. resolv.conf
- Q5.16. How do I delegate authority for sub-domains ?
- Q5.17. DNS instead of NIS on a Sun OS 4.1.x system
- Q5.18. Patches to add functionality to BIND
- Q5.19. How to serve multiple domains from one server
- Q5.20. hostname and domain name the same
- Q5.21. Restricting zone transfers
- Q5.22. DNS in firewalled and private networks
- Q5.23. Modifying the Behavior of DNS with ndots
- Q5.24. Different DNS answers for same RR
- Section 6. PROBLEMS
- Q6.1. No address for root server
- Q6.2. Error - No Root Nameservers for Class XX
- Q6.3. Bind 4.9.x and MX querying?
- Q6.4. Do I need to define an A record for localhost ?
- Q6.5. MX records, CNAMES and A records for MX targets
- Q6.6. Can an NS record point to a CNAME ?
- Q6.7. Nameserver forgets own A record
- Q6.8. General problems (core dumps !)
- Q6.9. malloc and DECstations
- Q6.10. Can't resolve names without a "."
- Q6.11. Why does swapping kill BIND ?
- Q6.12. Resource limits warning in system
- Q6.13. ERROR:ns_forw: query...learnt
- Q6.14. ERROR:zone has trailing dot
- Q6.15. ERROR:Zone declared more then once
- Q6.16. ERROR:response from unexpected source
- Q6.17. ERROR:record too short from [zone name]
- Q6.18. ERROR:sysquery: findns error (3)
- Q6.19. ERROR:Err/TO getting serial# for XXX
- Q6.20. ERROR:zonename IN NS points to a CNAME
- Q6.21. ERROR:Masters for secondary zone [XX] unreachable
- Q6.22. ERROR:secondary zone [XX] expired
- Q6.23. ERROR:bad response to SOA query from [address]
- Q6.24. ERROR:premature EOF, fetching [zone]
- Q6.25. ERROR:Zone [XX] SOA serial# rcvd from [Y] is < ours
- Q6.26. ERROR:connect(IP/address) for zone [XX] failed
- Q6.27. ERROR:sysquery: no addrs found for NS
- Q6.28. ERROR:zone [name] rejected due to errors
- Section 7. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- Q7.1. How is this FAQ generated ?
- Q7.2. What formats are available ?
- Q7.3. Contributors
Chris Peckham - 16 June 1999
Extracted from comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains Frequently Asked Questions, Copyright 1999.