A picture illustrating the DNS lookup procedure

DNS Stuff: DNS tools, WHOIS, tracert, ping, and other network tools

RFC 2606, Reserved Top Level DNS Names

CAcert Inc: The Free Community Digital Certificate Authority

Sender Policy Framework

SASL: Simple Authentication and Security Layer (Cyrus)

RFC 2222, Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL)

Educause .edu WHOIS lookup

Internic WHOIS lookup

.INFO WHOIS lookup

IP v6 Tools

Moniker.com

Name.com

The Public DNS Service

VeriSign.com

Global Whois Gateway

IANA

ICANN

IETF

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Sample Configuration Files

/etc/hosts

/etc/networks

/etc/resolv.conf

/etc/nsswitch.conf

/etc/sysconfig/network

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0

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/etc/named.conf (caching only)

/etc/named.conf (caching and forwarding)

/etc/named.conf (primary)

/etc/named.conf (secondary)

/etc/rndc.conf

/etc/rndc.key

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/var/named/kaos.zone

/var/named/kaos-rev.zone

/var/named/localhost.zone

/var/named/named.local

/var/named/named.ca (hints file)

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/etc/sysconfig/iptables

/etc/hosts.allow

/etc/hosts.deny

/etc/dhclient-eth0.conf

/etc/logrotate.d/named