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Al Case. Since Free ebooks since ZLibrary app. Because it's easy to find data once you're given the domain name that indexes that data, why not create a part of the domain name space that uses addresses as labels?

Finally, at the fourth level down, there are resource records attached to the final octet giving the full domain name of the host or network at that IP address.

For example, if winnie. That way, the IP address would have read correctly forward in the domain name. IP addresses are hierarchical, however, just like domain names. Network numbers are doled out much as domain names are, and administrators can then subnet their address space and further delegate numbering. The difference is that IP addresses get more specific from left to right, while domain names get less specific from left to right.

For example, the This would be impossible if the octets appeared in the opposite order. If the IP addresses were represented the other way around, That exhaustive search is to some extent possible, and it's called an inverse query. An inverse query is a search for the domain name that indexes a given datum. It's processed solely by the name server receiving the query.

That name server searches all of its local data for the item sought and returns the domain name that indexes it, if possible. If it can't find the data, it gives up. No attempt is made to forward the query to another name server.

Because any one name server only knows about part of the overall domain name space, an inverse query is never guaranteed to return an answer.

For example, if a name server receives an inverse query for an IP address it knows nothing about, it can't return an answer, but it also doesn't know that the IP address doesn't exist, because it only holds part of the DNS database. BIND 8 no longer includes that code at all, though it does recognize inverse queries and can make up fake responses to them.

Actually, it's usually quite fast. One of the features that speeds it up considerably is caching. A name server processing a recursive query may have to send out quite a few queries to find an answer. However, it discovers a lot of information about the domain name space as it does so. Each time it's referred to another list of name servers, it learns that those name servers are authoritative for some zone, and it learns the addresses of those servers. And, at the end of the resolution process, when it finally finds the data the original querier sought, it can store that data for future reference, too.

With version 4. Name servers cache all of this data to help speed up successive queries. The next time a resolver queries the name server for data about a domain name the name server knows something about, the process is shortened quite a bit. The name server may have cached the answer, positive or negative, in which case it simply returns the answer to the resolver. Even if it doesn't have the answer cached, it may have learned the identities of the name servers that are authoritative for the zone the domain name is in and be able to query them directly.

For example, say our name server has already looked up the address of eecs. In the process, it cached the names and addresses of the eecs. Now if a resolver were to query our name server for the address of baobab.

Recognizing that berkeley. On the other hand, if our name server had discovered that there was no address for eecs. This means that we're not as dependent on the roots, and they won't suffer as much from all our queries. If they did, changes to that data on the authoritative name servers would never reach the rest of the network. Remote name servers would just continue to use cached data. Consequently, the administrator of the zone that contains the data decides on a time to live, or TTL, for the data.

The time to live is the amount of time that any name server is allowed to cache the data. After the time to live expires, the name server must discard the cached data and get new data from the authoritative name servers.

This also applies to negatively cached data; a name server must time out a negative answer after a period, too, in case new data has been added on the authoritative name servers. However, the time to live for negatively cached data isn't tunable by the domain administrator; it's hardcoded to ten minutes.

A small TTL will help ensure that data about your domain is consistent across the network, because remote name servers will time it out more quickly and be forced to query your authoritative name servers more often for new data. On the other hand, this will increase the load on your name servers and lengthen resolution time for information in your domain, on the average.

A large TTL will shorten the average time it takes to resolve information in your domain because the data can be cached longer. The drawback is that your information will be inconsistent for a longer time if you make changes to your data on your name servers.

There's some homework necessary before you can set up your domain and your name servers, though, and we'll assign it in the next chapter. Where Do I Start? Such a soft sweet voice it had! She answered, rather sadly, 'Nothing, just now. Before you set up a domain, you may need to get the BIND software.

Occasionally, however, you'll need to seek out a version for a more obscure operating system, or you'll want the current version with all the latest functionality. That decided, you need to contact the administrators of the parent domain of the domain name you've chosen. One thing at a time, though. Let's talk about where to get BIND.

Even if you're planning on having someone else run your domain, it's helpful to have the software around. For example, you can use your local name server to test your data files before giving them to your remote domain administrator. And, quite often, the networking software is included with the operating system, so you get BIND free. Even if the networking software is priced separately, you've probably already bought it, since you clearly do enough networking to need DNS, right?

As luck would have it, it's freely distributed. Compiling it on most common UNIX platforms should be relatively straightforward. We include instructions on compiling BIND 8. Some of you may already have a version of BIND that comes with your operating system, but you're wondering whether you really need the latest, greatest version of BIND.

What does it have to offer that earlier versions of BIND don't?