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Managing Mission - Critical Domains and DNS

By : Mark E.Jeftovic
Book Image

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)
7
Types and Uses of Common Resource Records

Web-based debugging tools

While there are a number of web-based DNS diagnostic tools, the reader is cautioned against taking some of their pronouncements too seriously.

With the odd exception, the majority of web-based tools tend to throw "warnings" and "errors" about issues that aren't actually impacting the operation of a zone's DNS. They tend to be oblivious to the practice of hidden primaries and complain a lot about refresh and retry intervals, which for all practical purposes don't matter.

In other words, a lot of web DNS tools generate a lot of "look busy" output that doesn't actually convey anything useful. From there, people are prone to opening spurious tickets with their vendors.

DNS stuff

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