date: april 2003 please send suggestions to: [email protected] or [email protected] 1. INTRODUCTION [TOC] This document attempts to provide some useful links to Web based materials related to understanding and setting up a DNS server. 2. QUICK CONCLUSIONS [TOC] Probably the site [*]http://www.dns.net/dnsrd/docs is the best place to go as a starting point. 3. SOME LINKS [TOC] [*]http://www.nominum.com/books.php Contains a link to the bind 9 reference manual. This is the site of the company which wrote bind 9 [*]http://www.nominum.com/content/documents/bind9arm.pdf The bind 9 reference manual. 113 pages. [*]http://michael.iserver.com/dns/ This is a very basic tutorial, divided into small chunks of html (each page doesnt contain much information) [*]http://www.freeos.com/articles/3956/ A (5 page) description of setting up DNS on linux. It is not written in the best English. ftp://ftp.is.co.za/rfc/rfc1034.txt The main (?) rfc for DNS [*]http://www.dns.net/dnsrd/ Some DNS information and good links to other resources The links seem reasonably old (2001). This site is known as the 'DNS Resources Directory' [*]http://www.dns.net/dnsrd/docs/domain.ps Another introduction to DNS in post-script format. Apparently this is included as part of the 'bind' distribution. [*]http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-192.html Apparently a 'cut-and-paste' configuration file for setting up bind 8 on unix. [*]http://www.nwc.com/netdesign/cook5.html A page on building DNS. Updated 1997 [*]http://pluto.iis.nsk.su/docs/bsd-4.3/named.html A manual entitled 'name server operations for bind'. Possibly quite old [*]http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/geektalk/97/03/index4a.html?tw=backend A two page introduction to DNS 4. MISCELANEOUS [TOC] [*]http://oac3.hsc.uth.tmc.edu/staff/snewton/tcp-tutorial/ A short introduction to tcp protocols, including dns. |