DNS Operations S. Moonesamy Eland Systems AfriNIC 11 November
2 Domain Name System AfriNIC 11 – DNS Operations Lookup service Globally unique public name space
3 DNS Tree AfriNIC 11 – DNS Operations com org net cm tg sn za afrinic.netgouv.sn
4 Domain names AfriNIC 11 – DNS Operations Hostname [A – Z] [0 – 9] hyphen US ASCII IDN
5 Terminology AfriNIC 11 – DNS Operations DNS label www. gouv. sn DNS Zone www. afrinic. net meeting. afrinic. net
6 DNS Query AfriNIC 11 – DNS Operations dig -t A ;; QUESTION SECTION: ; IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: IN A ;; Query time: 80 msec ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 340 QNAME QCLASS QTYPE IN A
7 Name Servers AfriNIC 11 – DNS Operations dig -t ns sn ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;sn. IN NS ;; ANSWER SECTION: sn IN NS ns.sentoo.sn. sn IN NS ns-sn.ripe.net. sn IN NS ns1.ird.fr. sn IN NS ns3.nic.fr. sn IN NS ns.ucad.sn.
8 AfriNIC 11 – DNS Operations Transport Protocols UDP TCP 512 octet payload
9 AfriNIC 11 – DNS Operations EDNS0 Extension Mechanism for DNS allows the transport of larger DNS packets over UDP
10 AfriNIC 11 -DNS Operations What could go wrong? Root servers misconfiguration firewalls Authoritative servers Domain Name Registry Unreachable servers
DNS Operations 10 Thank you AfriNIC 11 – DNS Operations