Resources

DNS and BIND, 3rd Edition, Paul Albitz and Cricket Liu, O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1998: an excellent book providing detailed information about DNS. Information up to BIND 8.1.2 is covered.

“Using the Domain Name System for System Break-ins”, Steven M. Bellovin, Proceedings of the Fifth Usenix UNIX Security Symposium, June 1995, Salt Lake City, UT, ftp://ftp.research.att.com/dist/smb/dnshack.ps: an excellent, interesting paper describing some problems with DNS. It was written in 1990, but not released until 1995.

http://www.sunworld.com/sol-11-1997/swol-11- bind.html: “Using BIND: Don't get spoofed again” by Matt Larson and Cricket Liu.

http://www.dns.net/dnsrd/: a great DNS resource on the Web. This site contains links to the DNS FAQ and other valuable DNS resources on the Internet.

http://www.isc.org/: ISC web site, location for obtaining the BIND source code.

Securing Your Name Server Slides Presentation by Acme Byte & Wire (http://www.acmebw.com/).

Comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains, comp.protocols.nds.bind: BIND newsgroup.