[CLUE-Admin] Re: DNS talk

[Cricket Liu]

On Tuesday, January 14, 2003, at 12:12  AM, Paul Bille wrote:

>> - One on threats to DNS on the Internet
>> - One on securing BIND name servers
>> - One on upgrading to BIND 9
>
> I'd like to see something technical.  Upgrading to BIND 9 is covered in
> Cricket's book in detail but most of us are already on BIND 9 (at least
> I am).  I wonder if we could get Cricket to talk about domain
> delegation, DNS slave server, zone transfer, dynamic updating, DNS and
> mail . . . There's sooo much I don't understand.

I imagine you can get Cricket to talk about nearly anything.  The only
issue is how much you can cover in 45 minutes, and in what depth.

> Cricket talked about DNS queries inundating the top level servers when
> he spoke in Boulder.  I'd like to hear more about why that happens and
> how to prevent it.

Sure, we can talk about that.

cricket