Chapter 7. BIND Type Samples
This chapter presents sample BIND configurations and accompanying descriptions for each of the DNS types described in Chapter 4. But before jumping into these configurations, let's take a moment to quickly review these types:
Zone master: A name server that responds authoritatively for the zone, which reads the zone file from a local file system and which is capable of transferring the zone file to one or more slave servers
Zone slave: A name server that responds authoritatively for the zone but which obtains its zone file by a zone transfer from a zone master
Caching server: A name server that provides recursive query support to clients and that saves the results in a cache
Forwarding server: A name server that passes ...
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