TCP/IP Network Administration ^{3rd Ed.}

TCP/IP Network Administration, Third Edition is a complete guide to setting up and running a TCP/IP network, and is geared towards system administrators as well as users of home systems that access the Internet. It starts with the fundamentals: what protocols do and how they work, how addresses and routing are used to move data through the network, how to set up your network connection.

Beyond basic setup, this book discusses advanced routing protocols (RIPv2, OSPF, and BGP) and the gated software package that implements them. It provides a tutorial on configuring important network services, including DNS, Apache, sendmail, Samba, PPP, and DHCP. There are chapters on troubleshooting and security. In addition, this book contains a command and syntax reference for important packages such as gated, pppd, named, dhcpd, and sendmail.

This new edition includes ways of configuring Samba to provide file and print sharing on networks that integrate Unix and Windows, and a new chapter is dedicated to the important task of configuring the Apache web server. Network security coverage is expanded to include details on OpenSSH, stunnel, gpg, iptables, and the access control mechanism in xinetd. This book also contains updated information about DNS, including details on BIND 8 and BIND 9, the role of classless IP addressing and network prefixes, and the changing role of registrars.

This book covers Linux, Solaris, BSD, and System V TCP/IP implementations

1. Overview of TCP/IP
• TCP/IP and the Internet
• A Data Communications Model
• TCP/IP Protocol Architecture
• Network Access Layer
• Internet Layer
• Transport Layer
• Application Layer
• Summary
2. Delivering the Data
• Addressing, Routing, and Multiplexing
• The IP Address
• Internet Routing Architecture
• The Routing Table
• Address Resolution
• Protocols, Ports, and Sockets
• Summary
3. Network Services
• Names and Addresses
• The Host Table
• DNS
• Mail Services
• File and Print Servers
• Configuration Servers
• Summary
4. Getting Started
• Connected and Non-Connected Networks
• Basic Information
• Planning Routing
• Planning Naming Service
• Other Services
• Informing the Users
• Summary
5. Basic Configuration
• Kernel Configuration
• Startup Files
• The Internet Daemon
• The Extended Internet Daemon
• Summary
6. Configuring the Interface
• The ifconfig Command
• TCP/IP Over a Serial Line
• Installing PPP
• Summary
7. Configuring Routing
• Common Routing Configurations
• The Minimal Routing Table
• Building a Static Routing Table
• Interior Routing Protocols
• Exterior Routing Protocols
• Gateway Routing Daemon
• Configuring gated
• Summary
8. Configuring DNS
• BIND: Unix Name Service
• Configuring the Resolver
• Configuring named
• Using nslookup
• Summary
9. Local Network Services
• The Network File System
• Sharing Unix Printers
• Using Samba to Share Resources with Windows
• Network Information Service
• DHCP
• Managing Distributed Servers
• Post Office Servers
• Summary
10. sendmail
• sendmail’s Function
• Running sendmail as a Daemon
• sendmail Aliases
• The sendmail.cf File
• sendmail.cf Configuration Language
• Rewriting the Mail Address
• Modifying a sendmail.cf File
• Testing sendmail.cf
• Summary
11. Configuring Apache
• Installing Apache Software
• Configuring the Apache Server
• Understanding an httpd.conf File
• Web Server Security
• Managing Your Web Server
• Summary
12. Network Security
• Security Planning
• User Authentication
• Application Security
• Security Monitoring
• Access Control
• Encryption
• Firewalls
• Words to the Wise
• Summary
13. Troubleshooting TCP/IP
• Approaching a Problem
• Diagnostic Tools
• Testing Basic Connectivity
• Troubleshooting Network Access
• Checking Routing
• Checking Name Service
• Analyzing Protocol Problems
• Protocol Case Study
• Summary

1. PPP Tools
2. A gated Reference
3. A named Reference
4. A dhcpd Reference
5. A sendmail Reference
6. Solaris httpd.conf File
7. RFC Excerpts

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