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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. Shane Kerr: The Decline And Fall of Bind 10 https://ripe68.ripe.net/presentations/208-The_Decline_and_Fall_of_BIND_10.pdf https://www.isc.org/?faqs=dynamically-loadable-zones
  2. The easyDNS implementation of GeoDNS was initially accomplished using custom PowerDNS backends
  3. There are ways to get the original qtype to the backend, but for now, if you are not aware of this, you will go insane when you try to code a backend that expects to have visibility into the original qtype.
  4. https://blog.powerdns.com/2017/12/15/powerdns-authoritative-lua-records/ and https://doc.powerdns.com/authoritative/lua-records.html
  5. https://doc.powerdns.com/md/manpages/zone2sql.1/
  6. There isn't actually a defined "BIND-style" file format, rather BIND was the first to use the Master File Format specified in RFC 1035

  7. https://doc.powerdns.com/md/authoritative/domainmetadata/
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