For more information about DNS and BIND, see the following:
DNS and BIND, 5th edition, by Paul Albitz and Cricket Liu (O’Reilly and Associates, 2006)
The International Software Consortium website: www.isc.org and www.isc.org/sw/bind
Request for Comments (RFC) documents provide an overview of a protocol or service and explain how the protocol should behave.
See the following RFCs for information about specific record types:
RFC 1035 (for A, PTR, CNAME, MX)
RFC 1886 (for AAAA)
If you’re a novice server administrator, you’ll probably find some of the background information in an RFC helpful.
If you’re an experienced server administrator, you can find technical details about a protocol in its RFC document.
You can search for RFC documents by number at http://www.ietf.org/rfc.html.