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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

Quasi-Record Types

This chapter was originally called Pseudo-Record Types but that might cause confusion with OPT pseudo RR, which nameservers use to communicate the ability to convey EDNS.

There are some who think that this section shouldn't even be in here, because a lot of what's covered here is outside the actual DNS protocol. That said, this book is about managing DNS and domains. What happens under the umbrella "quasi-records" I put here because they are use cases or functionalities that frequently get bundled together under domain management.

In this vein, Quasi-Record Types is a phrase coined to denote record types commonly identified by their function that do not actually have true corresponding RR types within the DNS protocol.

For example, you may be familiar with the terms URL forward, Stealth Redirect, or some other derivations of them. All registrar...

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