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Overview
•Introduction
•DNS overview
•How DNS helps us?
•Summary
Introduction
Welcome
•Brief Presentation
•We could spend all Day
•Unsure about level of technical expertise
•Stop me at any point if you have a query
DNS Overview
What is DNS?
•Distributed Directory Service
•Maps names to values – resource records
•Highly resilient to attack*
•Major backbone of the internet
•Makes networks human friendly
•Defined (primarily) in RFC1034 and 1035
Other
com net org au info biz
ccTLDs
TLDs & ccTLDs
4lds
internal prosrs
DNS vs File System
C:
C: Start
Here
yahoo.com.au. C:\windows\system32\d
A “.” is used as A “\” is used as
rivers\
separator separator
“root” zone
Other
com net org au info biz
ccTLDs
TLDs & ccTLDs
“zone cuts” or
delegation
points ausregistry microsoft google yahoo theage 3lds
4lds
internal prosrs
What is a domain?
• A domain is a sub tree of a larger tree identified by
a domain name
• Contains resource records and sub-domains
• Some resource records point to authoritative server
for sub-domains / zones
• eg. the root contains pointers to .au
• google.com.au is a domain
Other
com net org au info biz
ccTLDs
Domain com.au
The
internal prosrs ausregistry.com.au
sub-domain of com.au
What is a resource record?
Your PC
ISP “Recursive” DNS server
Your PC
ISP “Recursive” DNS server
Your PC
www.google.com web server
Here it is!
Summary
WEB (HTTP)
Request
google.com.au
Web Server
2
6
1
3
5
Your PC
ISP “Recursive” DNS server “com” DNS servers
The actual
web request DNS requests
DNS
Your PC
Outbound Mail (SMTP) Server