Red Hat Linux 7 Unleashed

By William Ball

• Table of Contents
  • Copyright
  • About the Lead Authors
  • About the Contributing Authors
  • Acknowledgments
  • Tell Us What You Think!
  • Introduction
  • I. Red Hat Linux Installation and User Services
  • Chapter 1. Introduction to Red Hat Linux
  • Chapter 2. Installation of Your Red Hat System
  • Chapter 3. LILO and Other Boot Managers
  • Chapter 4. Configuring the X Window System, Version 11
  • Chapter 5. Window Managers
  • Chapter 6. Connecting to the Internet
  • Chapter 7. IRC, ICQ, and Chat Clients
  • Chapter 8. Using Multimedia and Graphics Clients
  • II. Configuring Services
  • Chapter 9. System Startup and Shutdown
  • Chapter 10. SMTP and Protocols
  • Chapter 11. FTP
  • Chapter 12. Apache Server
  • Chapter 13. Internet News
  • Chapter 14. Domain Name Service and Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
    • A Brief History of the Internet
    • A Word About This Chapter's Examples
    • Important DNS Facts and Concepts
    • DNS Server Configuration Files
    • Configuring resolv.conf with linuxconf
    • A Trivial Caching DNS
    • Configuring DNS Server Master Zones
    • Delegating Authority
    • Adding a Slave DNS Server
    • Troubleshooting DNS
    • DNS Resources
    • Automatically Configuring Clients with DHCP
    • Summary
  • Chapter 15. NIS: Network Information Service
  • Chapter 16. NFS: Network Filesystem
  • Chapter 17. Samba
  • III. System Administration and Management
  • Chapter 18. Linux Filesystems, Disks, and Other Devices
  • Chapter 19. Printing with Linux
  • Chapter 20. TCP/IP Network Management
  • Chapter 21. Linux System Administration
  • Chapter 22. Backup and Restore
  • Chapter 23. System Security
  • IV. Red Hat Development and Productivity
  • Chapter 24. Linux C/C++ Programming Tools
  • Chapter 25. Shell Scripting
  • Chapter 26. Automating Tasks
  • Chapter 27. Configuring and Building Kernels
  • Chapter 28. Emulators, Tools, and Window Clients
  • V. Appendixes
  • A. The Linux Documentation Project
  • B. Top Linux Commands and Utilities
  • C. The GNU General Public License
  • D. Red Hat Linux RPM Package Listings

Summary

This chapter covered the historical motivations for the creation of DNS. You saw the different types of nameservers and a sample DNS query. You learned how to create and maintain DNS database files. In addition, you learned how to build a caching-only server and master and slave zones, how to create zones for virtual domains, and how to delegate authority. This chapter also included a review of essential DNS troubleshooting tools. With the material in this chapter, you should have a good idea of how to implement DNS throughout your local network.

Finally, this chapter covered DHCP, a protocol that enables central administration of a LAN's client Ethernet addresses, DNS servers, WINS servers, and many more client network configuration parameters. DHCP is configured by editing the dhcpd.conf file.

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