1. The Domain Name System Unix System Administration Download PowerPoint Presentation

2. DNS’ History Mystery During the time of the dinosaurs (ARPANET) Single host file managed centrally and distributed to all hosts on the ARPANET Consumed lots ‘o bandwidth DNS Is Born Original Unix work done by grad students at Berkeley, later managed by the ISC Hierarchical, distributed database Each site responsible for their portion of DNS

3. What’s In a Named? DNS Domain Name System BIND Berkeley Internet Name Domain system named or in.named Name of the BIND executable

4. Defining DNS Definitively Hierarchical namespace for hosts and IP addresses Host table implemented as a distributed database “Resolver” or library routines for querying the database Improved routing of email Mechanism for finding services on the net Protocol for exchanging naming info

5. DNS Goes Both Ways Resolves names to IP addresses Also resolves IP address to names (reverse DNS)

6. Vixie’s Various Versions Paul Vixie was the major maintainer for BIND version 8 Version 4 is still in use, but should be considered obsolete Version 8 provides many advances that improved efficiency, security and robustness Version 9 is a total rewrite and supports threads, multiprocessors IPv6 and more There was no version 5, 6 or 7

7. What Kind of Bindage Are You Into? Bind 4 used a config file called /etc/named.boot Bind 8, 9 use /etc/named.conf To determine if version 8 or 9 use: dig @server version.bind txt chaos e.g. dig @beast version.bind txt chaos

8. Masters, Slaves and the Authorities Authoritative Servers Master server (keeps official copy of zone info on disk) Slave server (gets copy of zone info from master via zone transfer) Cache Servers Never authoritative Load “root” domain servers but all others are accumulated in memory only

9. Binding Your Clients Bind Client “Resolver” Configuration /etc/resolv.conf domain or search directives nameserver directives (at most 3) /etc/nsswitch.conf on some systems (like Solaris and Linux)

10. Putting Your Server In a Bind /etc/named.conf Zone files See page 438 for record types

11. options { directory "/var/dns"; pid-file "/etc/named.pid"; fake-iquery yes; }; logging { category lame-servers { null; }; category cname { null; }; }; zone "." in { type hint; file "named.cache"; }; zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" in { type master; file "named.local"; }; /etc/named.conf

12. zone "91.159.in-addr.arpa" in { type master; file "tcnj.hosts.reversed"; }; zone "TCNJ.EDU" in { type master; file "tcnj.hosts"; }; zone "Trenton.EDU" in { type master; file "trenton.hosts"; }; /etc/named.conf (continued)

13. @ IN SOA beast.TCNJ.EDU. admin.beast.TCNJ.EDU. ( 5923 ; serial number 10800 ; Refresh 3 hours 3600 ; Retry 1 hour 604800 ; Expire 168 hours/1 week 43200 ) ; Minimum 12 hour IN NS beast.TCNJ.EDU. IN NS seuss.TCNJ.EDU. IN NS snuffy.TCNJ.EDU. localhost 43200 IN A 127.0.0.1 beast IN A 159.91.15.220 beast IN MX 20 beast.TCNJ.EDU. TCNJ.EDU. IN MX 20 beast.TCNJ.EDU. lion IN A 159.91.15.221 lion IN MX 20 beast.TCNJ.EDU. tsclion IN CNAME lion.TCNJ.EDU. sa.tcnj.edu. IN NS cartman.sa.tcnj.edu. cartman.sa.tcnj.edu. IN A 159.91.8.228

14. 91.159.in-addr.arpa. IN SOA beast.TCNJ.EDU. ssivy.beast.TCNJ.EDU. ( 5774 ; serial number 10800 ; Refresh 3 hours 3600 ; Retry 1 hour 604800 ; Expire 168 hours/1 week 43200 ) ; Minimum 12 hour IN NS beast.Trenton.EDU. IN NS snuffy.Trenton.EDU. IN NS seuss.Trenton.EDU. localhost 43200 IN A 127.0.0.1 220.15.91.159.IN-ADDR.ARPA. PTR beast.TCNJ.EDU. 221.15.91.159.IN-ADDR.ARPA. PTR lion.TCNJ.EDU. 228.8.91.159.IN-ADDR.ARPA. cartman.sa.tcnj.edu.

15. @ IN SOA beast.trenton.edu. admin.beast.tcnj.edu. ( 3 ; Serial number 10800 ; Refresh rate in seconds for secondary servers 3600 ; Retry in seconds after failure 3600000 ; Expire in seconds 86400) ; Default time-to-live in seconds IN NS beast.tcnj.edu. 1 IN PTR localhost.

16. . 3600000 IN NS A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 A 198.41.0.4. 3600000 NS B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 A 128.9.0.107. 3600000 NS C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 A 192.33.4.12. 3600000 NS D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 A 128.8.10.90. 3600000 NS E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 A 192.203.230.10. 3600000 NS F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 A 192.5.5.241. 3600000 NS M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 A 202.12.27.33 Root Name Servers