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<a name="Bv9ARM.ch05"></a>Chapter 5. The <acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym> 9 Lightweight Resolver</h2></div></div></div>
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<dt><span class="sect1"><a href="Bv9ARM.ch05.html#id2572922">The Lightweight Resolver Library</a></span></dt>
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<dt><span class="sect1"><a href="Bv9ARM.ch05.html#lwresd">Running a Resolver Daemon</a></span></dt>
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<div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both">
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<a name="id2572922"></a>The Lightweight Resolver Library</h2></div></div></div>
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Traditionally applications have been linked with a stub resolver
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library that sends recursive DNS queries to a local caching name
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server.
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<p>
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IPv6 once introduced new complexity into the resolution process,
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such as following A6 chains and DNAME records, and simultaneous
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lookup of IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. Though most of the complexity was
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then removed, these are hard or impossible
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to implement in a traditional stub resolver.
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<p>
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<acronym class="acronym">BIND</acronym> 9 therefore can also provide resolution
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services to local clients
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using a combination of a lightweight resolver library and a resolver
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daemon process running on the local host. These communicate using
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a simple UDP-based protocol, the "lightweight resolver protocol"
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that is distinct from and simpler than the full DNS protocol.
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<div class="sect1" lang="en">
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<div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both">
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<a name="lwresd"></a>Running a Resolver Daemon</h2></div></div></div>
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To use the lightweight resolver interface, the system must
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run the resolver daemon <span><strong class="command">lwresd</strong></span> or a
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local
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name server configured with a <span><strong class="command">lwres</strong></span>
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statement.
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By default, applications using the lightweight resolver library will
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make
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UDP requests to the IPv4 loopback address (127.0.0.1) on port 921.
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The
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address can be overridden by <span><strong class="command">lwserver</strong></span>
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lines in
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<code class="filename">/etc/resolv.conf</code>.
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The daemon currently only looks in the DNS, but in the future
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it may use other sources such as <code class="filename">/etc/hosts</code>,
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NIS, etc.
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The <span><strong class="command">lwresd</strong></span> daemon is essentially a
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caching-only name server that responds to requests using the
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lightweight
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resolver protocol rather than the DNS protocol. Because it needs
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to run on each host, it is designed to require no or minimal
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configuration.
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Unless configured otherwise, it uses the name servers listed on
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<span><strong class="command">nameserver</strong></span> lines in <code class="filename">/etc/resolv.conf</code>
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as forwarders, but is also capable of doing the resolution
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autonomously if
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none are specified.
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</p>
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<p>
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The <span><strong class="command">lwresd</strong></span> daemon may also be
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configured with a
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<code class="filename">named.conf</code> style configuration file,
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in
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<code class="filename">/etc/lwresd.conf</code> by default. A name
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server may also
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be configured to act as a lightweight resolver daemon using the
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<span><strong class="command">lwres</strong></span> statement in <code class="filename">named.conf</code>.
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