First signed root zone published


DNS Platforms: A Study in Capacity and Scalability


Video: Highlights of the DNSSEC Key Signing Ceremony


DNS RFC Dependency Graphs

DNSSEC Tutorial

Really cool PDF presentation from Registro.br.


gdnsd

gdnsd is an authoritative-only DNS server written in C using libev and pthreads with a focus on high performance, low latency Authoritative DNS service. It does not offer any form of caching or recursive service, and does not support DNSSEC. The initial “g” stands for Geographic, as gdnsd offers a plugin system for geographic (or other sorts of) balancing, redirection, and service-state-conscious failover. If you don’t care about that feature, you can ignore it and gdnsd still makes a great authoritative DNS server.


CouchDB & DNS

Jan-Piet Mens, author of the awesome book, Alternative DNS Servers has written a few posts about using CouchDB as a back-end for DNS:


NSDadmin

NSDadmin is a web based administration interface that should be run on the same server there NSD is running. NSDadmin allows you to store DNS zones, TSIG keys and other info in MySQL database and periodicaly merge it from there into NSD config files.


The World Will Not End on May 5th

Here are a few recent publications and postings that clarify the upcoming May 5th events:


Ask Mr. DNS Podcast, Episode 15