You “buy” a domain name Domain registration company creates a record in the root name servers Clients query root servers, and then your servers (assuming root servers have accurate information) DNS servers along the way cache the information, making DNS awesome fast when you do it right submitted by hostbreak [link] [9 comments] Powered by … Read More “Do You Know How DNS Works?” »
Month: December 2015
I setup a private dns on an Ubuntu 14.04 digitalocean droplet (PowerDNS basically following this guide) to block kid-baiting ads that my kids keep accidentally clicking on when they are playing games on our tablets. I have 3 kids under 5 yrs of age…If you don’t know what I’m talking about…an ad pops up in … Read More “PowerDNS – White list IP's that can query my DNS server?” »
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We have been having issues with .tr ccTLDs for the last 2 hours. It is clear that ns{1..5}.nic.tr name servers are being attacked. Right now, they stopped the traffic originating from outside of Turkey. Effectively, the rest of the world won’t be able to resolve .tr domains. The saddest thing is that all those 5 … Read More “Turkey's Root Name Servers Are Not Reachable” »
I want to perform a DNSSEC Signature validation on an opensuse cli, using tools like openssl. I copied the information from DNSKEY, RRSIG and A-Record to local files. What I tried is something like the following: openssl dgst -sha256 -verify pub.key -signature sig.dat record.dat I get error-message “Unable to load keyfile”. I tried different formats … Read More “How to perform DNSSEC steps on CLI ?” »
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