Reference and FAQ
The primary documentation for BIND is the ARM, the Administrator's Reference Manual. There is a separate edition of the ARM for each major release of BIND. You can download the PDF file of the ARM for BIND 9.5, BIND 9.4, BIND 9.3, or BIND 9.2. HTML versions are available for BIND 9.5 and BIND 9.4.
We update our FAQ as needed.
New features
There is a wealth of new features in each major new version of BIND. Most of the new features in BIND 9.5 are intended to make it easier to operate and administer.
Outside resources and links
Some of the services named here may require payment. We provide this list as a convenience to BIND developers and other interested parties. It is not a comprehensive list of all BIND-related services, nor does it constitute an endorsement by ISC or its employees of any particular service, product, or organization. ISC assumes no responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of any of this material.
- Cricket Liu's presentation on how to secure BIND.
- Ron Aitchison's DNS book "ProDNS and BIND" and DNS from Rocket Scientists
- Unofficial comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains FAQ.
- Andras Salamon's DNS Resources Directory
- Two DNS online tools: DNSSTUFF.COM & DNSREPORT.COM
- Paul Balyoz wrote and maintains a bunch of DNS Tools.
- dnsupdate - a tool to create/update dns tables written by Gopu
- Seung-young Kim of OpenBIRD, Inc has written a DNS guide in Korean.
- Anton Holleman wrote this paper clarifying why correct use of the DNS is good for the net (in pdf - used with permission of the author).
- Adam Shostack has also written a paper on how to run BIND 8 in a chroot() in Solaris.
- Dave Lugo has written a paper on how to run dual chroot()'d BIND 8 servers on a firewall.
- The Openwall Project has made patches and instructions available for running BIND 4 in a chroot() environment.
- Article on making a bind9 chroot jail on NetBSD
- Article on Installing A Bind9 Master/Slave DNS System on Debian
- Men & Mice supplies Quick DNS, a multi-platform management tool for ISC BIND.
- Red Hat RPMs for ISC BIND
- More information about DNSSEC can be found at http://www.dnssec.net/
- Jacco Tunnissen's http://www.bind9.net, a DNS, BIND, DHCP and LDAP Resource Directory
- Turkish Install Guide [PDF] BIND ile DNS Sunulu Kurulumu
- Article on Having Your Own Domain Name with a Dynamic IP Address
- Article on DDDNS - Delegated Dynamic DNS
- BIND 9 Administrators
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