Group Members

 Abrar Ahmad (2k6-CSE-134)

 Madiha Naveed (2k6-CSE-137)

 Tayyabah Khan (2k6-CSE-138)

What is BIND
 BIND is an implementation of the Domain
Name System (DNS) protocols. The name
BIND stands for "Berkeley Internet Name
Daemon", because the software originated in
the early 1980s at the University of California
at Berkeley. In recent years, the word BIND
has become, like "radar" and "snafu" and
"laser" and "scuba", more word than
acronym.
The BIND software distribution
contains three parts

 A Domain Name System server

 A Domain Name System "resolves
library
 Software tools for testing servers
A Domain Name System
server
 This is a program called "named", which is
pronounced "name-dee" and stands for
"name daemon". It answers questions that
are sent to it, following the rules specified in
the DNS protocol standards. You can provide
DNS service on the internet by installing this
software on a server computer and giving it
correct information about your domain names
A Domain Name System
"resolver library
 A "resolver" is a program that resolves
questions about names by sending
those questions to appropriate servers
and responding appropriately to the
servers' replies. A "resolver library" is a
collection of software components that
a programmer can add to software
being developed, which will give that
software the ability to resolve names.
Software tools for testing
servers
 These are the tools that we use for
testing, and we include them in the
distribution in case you would like to do
your own testing, perhaps to make sure
your server configuration is working
properly.
 When you install an operating system on your
computer, that operating system will contain
whatever resolver library its developers selected for
it. When you set up a server computer, its vendor
usually has provided some DNS server software
(usually BIND) so that the server will work as
delivered. Because BIND faithfully implements the
DNS protocols, there is no need for the resolver
(which asks questions) and the server (which
answers questions) to be running the same software.
Hardware Requirements:

 Hardware Requirements BIND is a memory

hog. IPv6 and DNSSEC in BIND 9 are CPU-
intensive. To determine if a server has
enough memory, let it run for awhile and
watch the size of the named process. It will
take a week or two to converge on a stable
size at which old cache records are expiring
at about the same rate as new ones are being
inserted.