Strategic Sysadmin – External DNS
Assuming you’ve come here from the end of Part 2 of the Internal DNS HOWTO, you should have a working master/slave DNS setup, as well as some spiffy ACLs and view-statements that limit querying to your own network. Now, in our final installment of our BIND DNS server setup More >
Strategic Sysadmin – Internal DNS Part 2
Presumably, you’ve followed Part 1 and you have a working DNS server that is serving up both mycorp.lan and external records (think www.google.com). In this installment, we’re going to lock this down a bit with some Access Control Lists (ACLs), as well as set up a slave More >
Strategic Sysadmin – Internal DNS Part 1
There are generally two aspects of DNS to consider when you’re setting it up in a new environment: Internal and external. External DNS holds records that are generally visible to everyone “from the Internet” – your www.mycorp.com, somehost.mycorp.com, so on and so forth. (Paul Vixie is readying a baseball bat More >
Strategic Sysadmin – An Introduction
I have more than a few friends who are Linux-savvy and ‘get’ the whole IT mindset. However, they tend to be working in abusive support roles, Windows administration roles, or just plain manning phones for peanuts. When we get to talking about career moves and things of that nature, the More >