Archive for the ‘dnsbook’ Category
I see Martin still appreciates my book Alternative DNS Servers. He liked dnsmasq and now it is Unbound.
John Collins reviewed my book Alternative DNS Servers in the latest UKUUG newsletter.
The book is in three sections. In the first section DNS is fully described, including some of its history. In the second and largest section the various servers are presented in microscopic detail apart from the Microsoft proprietary DNS servers which are an [...]
I'm succumbing to comments and queries on whether the PowerDNS DNS name server could be backed by a CouchDB database. It can.
I'm not going to delve too deeply into PowerDNS here because I discuss it very thoroughly in chapter 6 of my book Alternative DNS Servers. So, in other words, if you're not familiar with [...]
During the course of last week I was thinking that CouchDB would make a rather lovely back-end to a DNS server: its built-in replication would make for a pretty good multi-master setup. And yes, I know: there are lots of those, but even so, I was thinking about it. (If you are new to CouchDB, [...]
The Council of European National Top Level Domain Registries, has produced the following video to help explain the functioning of the Domain Name System (DNS). (via.)
It is nicely done and very colourful. I particularly liked how they producers show how fast DNS resolution is with the lump of sugar falling into the cup of coffee.
Several [...]
From Jonathan Oxer, author of Practical Arduino:
They forced us to use Word templates (I don't even have Windows!)
if you want to write a book chose a publisher who doesn't force you to use a product and take a deep look at a formatter such as LaTeX.
Take some consolation from the fact that she is now unemployed.
The other day, a friend and I where making fun of somebody who is known to say that the DNS is always at fault. Since no normal human being knows what dig is, let alone how to use it, we thought of building a mail to DNS gateway as a joke. Anyhow, the whole thing [...]