DNS

Articles

• http://bugsplat.info/2012-12-31-how-i-run-my-own-dns.html

Domains

Do NOT use GoDaddy. Google it.

• http://123reg.co.uk
• https://www.gandi.net

• http://www.swola.com/

• Network Solutions
  • http://www.networksolutions.com/support/changing-payment-methods/
  • http://www.networksolutions.com/support/using-paypal-as-your-payment-method/
  • http://www.networksolutions.com/support/preparing-a-domain-name-for-a-transfer-out-of-network-solutions/

• http://ask.metafilter.com/184973/How-can-I-register-a-unicode-domain#2662987

• http://www.namemesh.com

tlds, ccs, etc.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.ch
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.name

Styles

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_hack
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanity_domain

Management

• http://www.fabulous.com/
• https://www.nameterrific.com/ [1]

• https://dns.he.net/ - hurricane electrics free service

• http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4847449

Tools

dig domain.name

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dig_(command)

• http://network-tools.com/ - good all round domain/ip tool
• http://www.who.is/ - basic whois archive records
• http://viewdns.info/

Servers, proxy, cache

• http://www.bind9.net/
• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/BIND

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnsmasq
• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dnsmasq

• pdnsd is a proxy DNS server with permanent caching (the cache contents are written to hard disk on exit) that is designed to cope with unreachable or down DNS servers (for example in dial-in networking). Since version 1.1.0, pdnsd supports negative caching.
  • https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pdnsd

DNS server ip addresses

BE Broadband;

• 87.194.255.154
• 87.194.255.155

Google;

• 8.8.8.8
• 8.8.4.4

Basic DNS Records

From DreamHost wiki;

A

Forward mapping of hostname to an IP address (66.33.201.141).

AAAA

Forward mapping of hostname to an IPv6 address.

PTR

Reverse mapping of an IP address (66.33.201.141) to a hostname (dreamhost.com).

MX

Mail eXchange records tell you which hostname to connect to for sending email.

CNAME

Say it, See Name, it points one domain name to another domain name, including mail service.

TXT

Text records, these are free form text strings, used for things like SPF.

SRV

Service records advertise a specific service a server offers. Zeroconf and XMPP Federation (Jabber and Google Apps) use SRV records in addition to PTR records.

NS

Delegates a domain or subdomain to another DNS server.