| Introduction to the DNS system |
| Purpose of naming |
| Names and addresses in general |
| Naming History |
| DNS |
| DNS Features: Global Distribution |
| DNS Features: Loose Coherency |
| DNS Features: Scalability |
| DNS Features: Reliability |
| DNS Features: Dynamicity |
| DNS Concepts |
| Concept: DNS Names 1 |
| Concept: DNS Names 2 How names appear in the DNS |
| Concept: Resource Records |
| Concept: DNS Names 3 |
| Concept: Domains |
| Delegation |
| Concept: Zones and Delegations |
| Concept: Name Servers |
| Concept: Name Servers authoritative name server |
| Concept: Name Servers recursive server |
| Concept: Resolvers |
| Concept: Resolving process & Cache |
| Concept: Resource Records (more detail) |
| Example: RRs in a zone file |
| Resource Record: SOA and NS |
| Resource Record: SOA |
| Concept: TTL and other Timers |
| Places where DNS data lives |
| To remember... |
| What have we learned What are we about to learn |
| Writing a zone file. |
| First attempt |
| The SOA record |
| Authoritative NS records and related A records |
| Other ÔAPEXÕ data |
| Intermezzo: MX record |
| Other data in the zone |
| Zone file format short
cuts nice formatting |
| Zone file format short cuts: repeating last name |
| Zone file format short cuts: default TTL |
| Zone file format short cuts: ORIGIN |
| Delegating a zone (becoming a parent) |
| Concept: Glue |
| Concept: Glue (continued) |
| Delegating disi.ripe.net. from ripe.net. |
| Becoming a child In general |