bind and named?

Joseph S D Yao jsdy at cospo.osis.gov
Tue Dec 28 20:14:42 UTC 1999


On Tue, Dec 28, 1999 at 10:09:10AM -0500, clavikal wrote:
> Is there a difference between bind and named?

Package / one of the programs in the package

> Correct me if I'm wrong, but....
> named.conf says "I have a domain xxxx.com and its db file is at xxxx.com.db"
> then xxx.com.db has all the DNS info...

If that's what you want it to say.  Domain names can be anything within
reason, or within the constraints of the Internet DNS RFCs.  The file
names can also be anything, although it helps to make the file name
remind you with which domain it is associated.  The zone file has all
of the information for that zone; but there is other information that
has to "glue" that zone file into place in the DNS hierarchy.  Some of
that is in the named.conf file, and some is in the parent zone's DNS
information.  In turn, the zone information may also point to subdomains
for which it does not have the information, but some other zone, perhaps
on some other server, does.

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