DNS configuration

JKnott

Agreed... But dns is how the internet works.. And he is a techy.. Never wondered how www.google.com gets you IP address?

Yes, I have been around for years, but never really focused on DNS. I was just going through the psSense book and decided to see what was happening with my own system.

johnpoz

Just nuts... Here is a fantastic book if you want to get some better understanding.
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596100575.do

They have a dns and IPv6 you prob be more interested in.
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920020158.do

KOM

DNS and BIND, 5th Edition: 648 pages

DNS and BIND on IPv6: 54 pages

kiokoman

eh knowledge come to a price

KOM

@kiokoman Yes, but how is the IP6 book a tenth of the size? I assume it's a typo, but I still thought it was funny.

kiokoman

nope. "this concise book provides the essentials you need to support this protocol "
generally speaking someone should read the first book and than the second one. dns concept are, for the most, the same for ipv4 and ipv6

johnpoz

Yeah you need to read the first one first ;) But I threw in link to IPv6 one because that would get his motor running.. He is the local ipv6 Drum Major ;)

Gertjan

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@johnpoz said in DNS configuration:

he has been around for the birth of the internet ;)

I remember very well, in the old days when Compuserve offered something called a 'gateway' to a new network called 'Internet' (had to install a program called "SPRY Mosaic" to 'browse' that network). Yahoo had a site that permits to search the available resources. Google, as a site and competitor, came some time afterwards.

johnpoz

Remember the old trumpet winsock program to get tcp/ip back in the day ;)

So yeah back at the birth... So how is some 25-30 years later just now getting around to figuring out how dns works.. Just funny to me is all. Happy to help... That book is very good read.. Back when I read it 1st or 2nd edition ;) Early 1990s time frame.

JKnott

@johnpoz said in DNS configuration:

So yeah back at the birth... So how is some 25-30 years later just now getting around to figuring out how dns works.

As someone else mentioned, you can't know everything and I hadn't focused on DNS. I am aware of how it works, with root servers etc., but my attention was elsewhere. All I was doing the other day is seeing how pfSense matched up with what was in the book and used Wireshark to see what was happening, as I often do.