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.sh 1 "Building A System with a Name Server"
.pp
BIND is composed of two parts. One is the user interface called the
\fIresolver\fP
which consists of a group of routines that reside in the C library
\fI/lib/libc.a\fP.
Second is the actual server called \fInamed\fP.
This is a daemon that runs in the background and services queries on a
given network port. The standard port for UDP and TCP is specified in
\fI/\|etc/\|services\fP.
.sh 2 "Resolver Routines in libc"
.pp
When building your 4.3BSD system you may either
build the C library to use the name server resolver routines
or use the host table lookup routines to do host name and address resolution.
The default resolver for 4.3BSD uses the name server. Newer BSD systems
include both name server and host table functionality with preference given
to the name server if there is one or if there is a \fI/etc/resolv.conf\fP
file.
.pp
Building the C library to use the name server changes the way
\fIgethostbyname\fP\|(3N), \fIgethostbyaddr\fP\|(3N), and
\fIsethostent\fP\|(3N) do their functions. The name server renders
\fIgethostent\fP\|(3N) obsolete, since it has no concept of a next line in
the database. These library calls are built with the resolver routines
needed to query the name server.
.pp
The \fIresolver\fP contains functions that build query
packets and exchange them with name servers.
.pp
Before building the 4.3BSD C library, set the variable \fIHOSTLOOKUP\fP
equal to \fInamed\fP in \fI/\|usr/\|src/\|lib/\|libc/\|Makefile\fP. You
then make and install the C library and compiler and then compile the rest
of the 4.3BSD system. For more information see section 6.6 of ``Installing
and Operating 4.3BSD on the VAX\(dd''.
.(f
\(ddVAX is a Trademark of Digital Equipment Corporation
.)f
.pp
If your operating system isn't VAX\(dd 4.3BSD, it is probably the case that
your vendor has included \fIresolver\fP support in the supplied C Library.
You should consult your vendor's documentation to find out what has to be
done to enable \fIresolver\fP support. Note that your vendor's \fIresolver\fP
may be out of date with respect to the one shipped with \s-1BIND\s+1, and that
you might want to build \s-1BIND\s+1's resolver library and install it, and
its include files, into your system's compile/link path so that your own
network applications will be able to use the newer features.
.sh 2 "The Name Service"
.pp
The basic function of the name server is to provide information about network
objects by answering queries. The specifications for this name server are
defined in RFC1034, RFC1035 and RFC974. These documents can be found in
\fI/usr/src/etc/named/doc\fP in 4.3BSD or \fIftp\fPed from
\fBftp.rs.internic.net\fP.
It is also recommended that you read the related manual pages,
\fInamed\fP\|(8),
\fIresolver\fP\|(3),
and \fIresolver\fP\|(5).
.pp
The advantage of using a name server over the host table lookup for host
name resolution is to avoid the need for a single centralized clearinghouse
for all names. The authority for this information can be delegated to the
different organizations on the network responsible for it.
.pp
The host table lookup routines require that the master file for the entire
network be maintained at a central location by a few people. This works
fine for small networks where there are only a few machines and the
different organizations responsible for them cooperate. But this does not
work well for large networks where machines cross organizational boundaries.
.pp
With the name server, the network can be broken into a hierarchy of domains.
The name space is organized as a tree according to organizational or
administrative boundaries.
Each node, called a \fIdomain\fP, is given a label, and the name of the
domain is the concatenation of all the labels of the domains from
the root to the current domain, listed from right to left separated by dots.
A label need only be unique within its domain.
The whole space is partitioned into several areas called \fIzones\fP,
each starting at a domain and extending down to the leaf domains or to
domains where other zones start.
Zones usually represent administrative boundaries.
An example of a host address for a host at the University of California,
Berkeley would look as follows:
.(b
\fImonet\fP\|\fB.\fP\|\fIBerkeley\fP\|\fB.\fP\|\fIEDU\fP
.)b
The top level domain for educational organizations is EDU;
Berkeley is a subdomain of EDU and monet is the name of the host.
.sh 2 "About Hesiod, and HS-class Resource Records"
.pp
Hesiod, developed by \s-1MIT\s+1 Project Athena, is an information service
built upon \s-1BIND\s+1. Its intent is similar to that of Sun's
\s-1NIS\s+1: to furnish information about users, groups, network-accessible
file systems, printcaps, and mail service throughout an installation. Aside
from its use of \s-1BIND\s+1 rather than separate server code another
important difference between Hesiod and \s-1NIS\s+1 is that Hesiod is not
intended to deal with passwords and authentication, but only with data that
are not security sensitive. Hesiod servers can be implemented by adding
resource records to \s-1BIND\s+1 servers; or they can be implemented as
separate servers separately administered.
.pp
To learn about and obtain Hesiod make an anonymous \s-1FTP\s+1 connection to
host \s-1ATHENA-DIST.MIT.EDU\s+1 and retrieve the compressed tar file
\fBpub/hesiod.tar.Z\fP. You will not need the named and resolver library
portions of the distribution because their functionality has already been
integrated into \s-1BIND 4.9\s+1. To learn how Hesiod functions as part of
the Athena computing environment obtain the paper
\fBpub/usenix/athena-changes.PS\fP from the above \s-1FTP\s+1 server host.
There is also a tar file of sample Hesiod resource files.
.pp
Whether one should use Hesiod class is open to question, since the same
services can probably be provided with class IN, type TXT and type
CNAME records. In either case, the code and documents for Hesiod will
suggest how to set up and use the service.
.pp
Note that while \s-1BIND\s+1 includes support for \fIHS\fP-class queries,
the zone transfer logic for non-\fIIN\fP-class zones is still experimental.