Ars Technica

Understanding DNS—anatomy of a BIND zone file

If you want to be a sysadmin or network administrator of any kind, there’s a fundamental technology you really need to understand—DNS, the Domain Name System. There was a time when a sysadmin with no ...
Ars Technica

BIND, problems with zone file

alice IN CNAME pinche.internal.example.com. alica IN CNAME pinche.internal.example.com. www IN CNAME linux.internal.example.com. server IN CNAME linux.internal ...
Network World

Serial numbers in zone files: Yours and named’s

Serial numbers in zone files help your DNS service determine whether it should re-ingest your zone files or ignore them. But there’s more to these pseudo timestamps than meets the eye. In fact, the ...
Linux Journal

System Administration: Another Step toward the BIND - V

OK, we had an extended breather from our last look at BIND's zone file pri.example.org. It's time to finish up and get a sense of what these records mean. To go off-topic a little, recently, I had the ...