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Originally Posted by DotHQ
I'm looking for pointers on where I can dig ...
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deliberate???
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Just in case I have to go to the book...
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It depends on what you want the book to do. If your understanding of general networking is solid, it is much easier, but if your understanding of general networking is, well, a bit shaky, you'll want (need) something that covers some of that too (which DNS and Bind does).OTOH, there is a DNS cookbook (also O'Reilly, and one of the same authors), which just covers recipes for a number of scenarios, and that is probably better/easier for networking experts, and those who just want to get stuff done, but may be slightly dangerous for those who know nothing of networking.
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what software is used by you all etc.
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Bind is probably easily the most commonly used software for publically-accesible DNS servers (and that seems to be what you are talking about, although you don't state that explicitly). There are options and Bind is a bit of a Swiss army knife
(think: trying to eat a steak with a Swiss army knife) and has had a bit of a history of having had to be hurriedly patched to deal with potential 'sploits, but may well be the right choice for this application.
Just bear in mind that if you go with Bind, your security expert (I think I know who that will be...although you could argue that its really your distro who is doing the grunt work) must keep on top the situation; there isn't a 'well, I'll put off thinking about it 'till next month, I'm busy now' option.