https://holyarmy.org/tags/bind/ Recent content in BIND on Holyarmy.org Hugo en-US Sat, 06 Oct 2007 21:00:41 +0000 https://holyarmy.org/2007/10/network-directory-services/ Sat, 06 Oct 2007 21:00:41 +0000 https://holyarmy.org/2007/10/network-directory-services/ <p>Network directory services are core to Internet functionality. The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System">Domain Name System (DNS)</a> provides a global (and/or local) directory of hosts and services. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LDAP">Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)</a> servers can provide some of the same information as DNS (or be used to back DNS), but are more frequently used to create network user databases, store user group information, providing centralized account information and password storage.</p> <p>I recently completed an upgrade of these two core services on a network I manage. We had been running outdated (but functional) <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIND">BIND</a> v8 and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openldap">OpenLDAP</a> v2.0 instances for of DNS and LDAP servers. Also, throw a Windows Server 2003 into the mix, which, as an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_directory">Active Directory</a> domain controller has to run its own DNS and LDAP (AD is tweaked LDAP) servers.</p>