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Author: Didier Kryn
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Weird network issue - slow to resolve IPs [solved]
Le 16/10/2018 à 20:28, Rick Moen a écrit :
> Quoting Didier Kryn (kryn@???):
>
>>     Any reading to recommend about recursive, authoritative or
>> what else name servers ?
> Not trying to be perverse, but: What would you like to know?
>
> I'll give you two answers, where the first one is my effort to avoid
> seeming to promote my own writings. Zytrax has over the years had truly
> excellent online materials about DNS, and the current iteration is this
> really good (gratis but not libre) online book, _DNS for Rocket
> Scientists_:
>
> http://www.zytrax.com/books/dns/
>
> Also, over the years when I was one of the editors for _Linux Gazette_,
> I wrote an intermittant series of articles on aspects of DNS for the
> interested layman. All of my _Linux Gazette_ articles are collected
> here, along with a picture of me gazing off myopically into the middle
> distance wondering why there is a blond-reddish caterpillar on my upper
> lip: http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/moen-lg.html
> (The hairy caterpillar eventually pupated and flew away, i.e., I no
> longer have facial hair, as the Devuan regulars who've seen me on video
> chat are aware.)
>
> I might immodestly suggest the slightly whimsical article (linked above)
> ' The Village of Lan: A Networking Fairy Tale' as a reasonable place to
> start, as it disambiguates the several types of DNS namserver software
> (recursive vs. authoritative vs. forwarder) using a quaint metaphor.
> Also, an earlier article 'The Basics of DNS' (likewise linked) attempted
> the same thing with less whimsy.
>
> Last, further straining the limits of Scandinavian-American
> self-deprecation, I might recommend my concise bestiary of all know DNS
> software for Linux, classifying them by category:
> http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Network_Other/dns-servers.html
>

Le 16/10/2018 à 20:33, Evilham a écrit :
> Am 16/10/2018 um 10:46 schrieb Didier Kryn:
>>     Any reading to recommend about recursive, authoritative or what else
>> name servers ?
> IIRC it doesn't cover everything and by no means is it technical,
> detailed or deep, but it's way too cute not to mention it:
>
> https://howdns.works/



    Thanks guys. I will eventually be able to install some local dns in
an educated way. Not that I have ever had problem with my ISP, but
better be prepared.

    Didier