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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)
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Types and Uses of Common Resource Records

References

  1. https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2016-06-01-en
  2. But they can be delegated to new nameservers at any time
  3. Key Relay Mapping for the Extensible Provisioning Protocol
  4. "Hidden primary" means a nameserver from which all other authoritative nameservers load their data, but it is never published in the nameserver delegation for the zone and thus does not receive actual queries from the internet.
  1. One logical master, you can still design for high availability at that master level via clustering and mirroring
  2. http://luadns.com and http://dns-api.com to name a couple
  3. Zone Poisoning: The How and Where of Non-Secure DNS Dynamic Updates http://mkorczynski.com/ IMC16Korczynski.pdf
  4. Because of this, I frequently point out to people that by geo-targeting their URL forward instead, which is comparably trivial to do compared to full-on GeoDNS, you probably get more accuracy...