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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. See http://blog.easydns.org/2015/05/20/unfortunately-we-have-renewed-our-icann-accreditation/
  2. The technical reviewers were (rightly) all over my case for habitually writing "SSL" throughout this manuscript when referring to securing Internet traffic. SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) has been obsoleted by TLS. The PCI Standards council dropped SSL (and TLS v1.0) from their Data Security Standard (DSS), ruling they can no longer be used past June 30, 2016. That said, you still find SSL used in common parlance all over the internet. A quick note: When we say TLS, it is referring to what you may know as SSL.