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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

IPv6-enabled nameservers

If you have IPv6 transport to your nameservers, said nameservers would ideally be listening on an IPv6 address configured into the nameserver and be dual-stack, responding to queries via both IPv4 and IPv6 transport.

Getting the IPv6 transit is the hard part, but much easier than it used to be. While outside the scope of this chapter, you would discuss this with your upstream connectivity provider. Once that's in place, it's a simple configuration update to get most nameservers responsive over IPv6:

listen-on-v6 { 2001:678:5::13; };
#################################
# local-ipv6 Local IP address to which we bind
#
local-ipv6=2001:678:5::13
do-ipv6: yes