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Contents

  1. DNS and domain names are born
  2. RFCS
    1. First design
    2. IP is born
    3. TXT is added
    4. CAA is added
    5. NA is added
    6. IPV6
    7. Current system
      1. Global
      2. Distributed
      3. Database

DNS and domain names are born

  • difficulty to remember ip addresses

https://www.cs.cornell.edu/people/egs/615/mockapetris.pdf

RFCS

http://www.zytrax.com/books/dns/apd/

First design

IP is born

TXT is added

CAA is added

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6844

NA is added

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3403

IPV6

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3596

Current system

http://www.zytrax.com/books/dns/ch4/

Types of DNS servers https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/dns/dns-server-types/

why there are only 13 root servers https://www.lifewire.com/dns-root-name-servers-3971336

https://securitytrails.com/blog/dns-root-servers

https://root-servers.org/

Global

Distributed

Database

DNS History:

  • http://www.softpanorama.org/DNS/history.shtml https://www.livinginternet.com/i/iw_dns_history.htm https://www.cloudns.net/blog/dns-hisotry-creation-first/

Host to Host protocol http://www.cbi.umn.edu/hostedpublications/pdf/McKenzieNCP1972.pdf

?? Questions:

  • how router decides where to move packet