About the DNS
The Domain Name System (DNS) is a distributed internet directory
service. DNS is used mostly to translate between domain names and
IP addresses, and to control email delivery. Most internet services
rely on DNS to work. If DNS fails or is too slow, web sites cannot
be located and email delivery stalls.
A selection of overview documents
explains DNS from a high-level perspective, while the RFC
documents are the official standards.
- A tongue-in-cheek
comparison
of DNSSEC with string theory
was posted by Bert Hubert to the Namedroppers mailing list. The
similarities are uncanny...
03-Aug-2008
- BIND 9.3.5-P2, 9.4.2-P2, and 9.5.0-P2 were
released on 02-Aug-2008. These work around cache poisoning attacks by
increasing randomness of queries. All BIND servers providing caching
service (this includes most recursive name servers) should upgrade.
03-Aug-2008
- BIND 9.3.5 was released in April 2008,
9.5.0 in May 2008, and 9.4.2 in December 2007. It's worth moving
any older BIND installations across to at least 9.3.5.
09-Jun-2008
-
DNS is 25 years old this year. See RFC 881
for Jon Postel's original plan. (According to Paul V. Mockapetris, the
88x RFCs were written after experience with a prototype implementation
in 1983.)
01-Feb-2008
- Net::DNS 0.60, a widely
used Perl module for DNS lookups,
was released on 22-Jun-2007. This fixes input validation errors
that could result in remotely exploitable denial of service.
03-Jul-2007
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Contents
- General
- What is DNS?
- DNS books
- Where to find DNS training
- About DNSRD
- DNS Standards
- DNS-related RFCs
- Current DNS standards activity
- Software
- DNS server software
- Tools (Unix and cross-platform)
- Windows Tools
- DNS programming
- Online info
- Assorted documents
- DNSRD tips
- DNS resource record types
- FAQ and
BIND FAQ
- Newsgroups
- Mailing lists
- Names, registration, root servers
- DNS registration
- Top-level domain names
- Domain name disputes
- Root server hints file
(MD5)
(PGP)
- Name server statistics
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