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Managing Mission - Critical Domains and DNS

By : Mark E.Jeftovic
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Managing Mission - Critical Domains and DNS

By: Mark E.Jeftovic

Overview of this book

Managing your organization's naming architecture and mitigating risks within complex naming environments is very important. This book will go beyond looking at “how to run a name server” or “how to DNSSEC sign a domain”, Managing Mission Critical Domains & DNS looks across the entire spectrum of naming; from external factors that exert influence on your domains to all the internal factors to consider when operating your DNS. The readers are taken on a comprehensive guided tour through the world of naming: from understanding the role of registrars and how they interact with registries, to what exactly is it that ICANN does anyway? Once the prerequisite knowledge of the domain name ecosystem is acquired, the readers are taken through all aspects of DNS operations. Whether your organization operates its own nameservers or utilizes an outsourced vendor, or both, we examine the complex web of interlocking factors that must be taken into account but are too frequently overlooked. By the end of this book, our readers will have an end to end to understanding of all the aspects covered in DNS name servers.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Types and Uses of Common Resource Records

Securing Your Domains and DNS

Over the next two chapters, we'll take a look at a wider scope of domain security:

  • Protecting your domains from unauthorized manipulation via a required vendor, such as a registrar or managed DNS provider platform
  • Ensuring the validity of your zone data (DNSSEC)
  • Mitigating brute-force attacks, such as Denial-of-Service (DDoS)

We'll also briefly touch on approaches to secure the transport between authoritative servers and resolvers, such as DNSCurve.

By the end of this chapter, you should have a set of basic principles that will enhance the security of your domains. You will also understand DNSSEC, what it is, why you may want to use it, and what is involved in doing so.

Then, in the following chapter, we'll continue the discussion with a look at DDoS mitigation strategies.