The Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) is a distributed
network information lookup service. It allows you to retrieve host
names and internet addresses for any node on the network. It also
provides mail routing capability by supplying a list of hosts that
will accept mail for other hosts. This chapter includes the following
sections:
For more detailed technical and conceptual information about
BIND, as well as information about planning a BIND hierarchy and
using sendmail with BIND, we strongly recommend
you see DNS and BIND, by Paul Albitz and
Cricket Liu, published by O'Reilly and Associates, Inc. Note
that you can get information about the book (including retail outlets
where you can buy it, as well as how to order it directly from O'Reilly)
by visiting the O'Reilly WWW site:
Once you are at the O'Reilly site, look in the catalog,
under the category "System and Network Administration." The
above book is listed under "Network Administration."
RFCs 1034 and 1035, located in the /usr/share/doc directory, explain the DNS database format and
domain name structure.
