Managing Mission-Critical Domains and DNS

Manage your organization's naming architecture effectively, from the administrative/policy side right through to the technical DNS and nameserver implementations. This practical book takes you through the basics - the anatomies of domain names and DNS requests - and covers DNS and domain issues from a variety of perspectives, including strategy, security, and intellectual property. Ideal for sysadmins, webmasters, IT consultants, and developers - anyone responsible for maintaining your organization's core DNS, or DNS for its downstream users or clients - this book provides strategic checklists and contains up-to-date case studies of DNS disasters.