= Domain Name Service (DNS) Learning Materials

date: april 2003
please send suggestions to: 
  matthew@ella-associates.org or matth3wbishop@yahoo.com

INTRODUCTION
  
  This document attempts to provide some useful links to Web based
  materials related to understanding and setting up a DNS server. 
  
QUICK CONCLUSIONS

  Probably the site http://www.dns.net/dnsrd/docs is the best
  place to go as a starting point.

SOME LINKS

  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. This same (?) manual may
    also be accessable as part of the bind9 package at the file system
    location
        /usr/share/doc/bind9-doc/arm/Bv9ARM.html
    
  http://michael.iserver.com/dns/
     This is a very basic tutorial, divided into small chunks 
     of html (each page doesn't 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

MISCELANEOUS
  http://oac3.hsc.uth.tmc.edu/staff/snewton/tcp-tutorial/
    A short introduction to tcp protocols, including dns.