DNS and BIND discusses one of the Internet's fundamental building blocks - the distributed host information database that's responsible for translating names into addresses, routing mail to its proper destination, and many other services.
Talks about distributed host information database that's responsible for translating names into addresses, routing mail to its proper destination, and even listing phone numbers with the new ENUM standard. This book covers BIND 9.3.2 as well as BIND 8.4.7.
If you're preparing to roll out IPv6 on your network, this concise book provides the essentials you need to support this protocol with DNS. You'll learn how DNS was extended to accommodate IPv6 addresses, and how you can configure a BIND name server to run on the network.