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Linux System Administration
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Linux System Administration

by Tom Adelstein, Bill Lubanovic
March 2007
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
304 pages
11h 12m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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about their parts of the tree, and resolvers request domain information from
nameservers on behalf of client programs.
Hierarchical naming schemes like DNS prevent duplication of data. Each domain is
unique, and you can have as many servers as you like within a domain—simply pre-
fix their hostnames to the domain name. A site that controls centralsoft.org, for
example, might have any number of hosts with names like server1.centralsoft.org,
ldap.centralsoft.org, and mail.centralsoft.org.
Advantages of Localized DNS Administration
Smaller organizations often let their ISPs handle DNS administration for them. Set-
ting up your own servers has advantages, though. It gives you total control over
which systems host your public services (e.g., web services and email), and putting
DNS into your infrastructure allows you more scalability: you can add servers as
needed and even do load balancing among them. This becomes important if you own
and operate several active domains or internal authentication services. You also have
more control over keeping your names updated. In short, it’s valuable to control your
own DNS in today’s business environment, instead of having somebody else do it.
Many companies have web-enabled their core business applications. Rather than
replacing working systems, they want to make their legacy applications available
through snazzy new web interfaces. Businesses
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