May 2011
Intermediate to advanced
52 pages
1h 5m
English
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Preface
I’m sorry for writing this ebook.
Well, that’s not quite accurate. What I mean is, I’m sorry I didn’t have time to update DNS and BIND to include all this new IPv6 material. DNS and BIND deserves a sixth edition, but I’m afraid my schedule is so hectic right now that I just don’t have time to write it. Heck, I’m on a flight from Boston to Tampa as I write this. (Long flights are great for writing prefaces, not so great for writing books about Internet technologies. Though in-flight Internet access does help.)
This book is essentially all the material related to IPv6 that I would have included in the sixth edition of DNS and BIND (and will, once I get to it). It covers how DNS was extended to accommodate IPv6 addresses, both for forward-mapping and reverse-mapping. It describes how to configure a BIND name server to run on an IPv6 network and how to troubleshoot problems with IPv6 forward- and reverse-mapping. It even covers DNS64, a DNS-based transition technology that, together with a companion technology called NAT64, can help islands of IPv6-only speaking hosts communicate with IPv4 resources.
Audience
I wrote this book for DNS administrators who are rolling out IPv6 on their networks and who need to understand how to support IPv6 on those networks with DNS. This ebook covers the underlying theory, including the structure and representation of IPv6 addresses; the A, M, and O flags in Router Advertisements and what they mean to DNS; as well as the nuts and bolts, including ...
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