A self-configuring and self-administering name system with dynamic address assignment / Paul Huck ... [et al.].
Contributors: Huck, Paul E. 1978-; Sloan School of Management.
Series: Sloan working paper -- 4213-01; Working paper (Sloan School of Management) -- 4213.
Publisher: Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Published: 2001
Place of publication: [Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 38
Description: A distributed system that stores name-to-address bindings and provides name resolution to a network of computers is presented in this paper. This name system consists of a network of name services that are individually self-configuring and self-administering. The name service consists of an agent program that works in conjunction with the current implementation of the Domain Name System (DNS). The DNS agent program automatically configures a Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) process during start up and dynamically reconfigures and administers the BIND process based on the changing state of the network. The proposed name system offers high scalability and fault-tolerance capabilities and communicates using standard Internet protocols. Keywords: Internet, Naming Conventions, Extensions to Internet, Automated Network Management.