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Managing Mission - Critical Domains and DNS

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Product type Book
Published in Jun 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789135077
Pages 368 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Mark E.Jeftovic Mark E.Jeftovic
Profile icon Mark E.Jeftovic
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters close

Preface 1. The Domain Name Ecosystem 2. Registries, Registrars, and Whois 3. Intellectual Property Issues 4. Communication Breakdowns 5. A Tale of Two Nameservers 6. DNS Queries in Action 7. Types and Uses of Common Resource Records 8. Quasi-Record Types 9. Common Nameserver Software 10. Debugging Without Tears – DNS Diagnostic Tools 11. DNS Operations and Use Cases 12. Nameserver Considerations 13. Securing Your Domains and DNS 14. DNS and DDoS Attacks 15. IPv6 Considerations 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Web-based debugging tools

While there are a number of web-based DNS diagnostic tools, the reader is cautioned against taking some of their pronouncements too seriously.

With the odd exception, the majority of web-based tools tend to throw "warnings" and "errors" about issues that aren't actually impacting the operation of a zone's DNS. They tend to be oblivious to the practice of hidden primaries and complain a lot about refresh and retry intervals, which for all practical purposes don't matter.

In other words, a lot of web DNS tools generate a lot of "look busy" output that doesn't actually convey anything useful. From there, people are prone to opening spurious tickets with their vendors.

DNS stuff

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