This memo describes errors often found in both the operation of Domain Name System (DNS) servers, and in the data that these DNS servers contain. This memo tries to summarize current Internet requirements as well as common practice in the operation and configuration of the DNS. This memo also tries to summarize or expand upon issues raised in [RFC 1537].

Common DNS Operational and Configuration Errors

This book describes the best practices of system and network administration, independent of specific platforms or technologies. It features six key principles of site design and support practices: simplicity, clarity, generality, automation, communication, and basics first. It examines the major areas of responsibility for system administrators within the context of these principles. The book also discusses change management and revision control, server upgrades, maintenance windows, and service conversions. You will find experience-based advice on topics such as: The key elements your networks/systems need that will make all other services run better, Building and running reliable, scalable services, including email, printing, and remote access, Creating security policies and enforcing them, Upgrading thousands of hosts without creating havoc, Planning for and performing flawless scheduled maintenance windows, Superior helpdesks, customer care, and avoiding the temporary fix trap, Building data centers that prevent problems, Designing networks for speed and reliability, Email scaling and security issues, Why building a backup system isn't about backups, Monitoring what you have and predicting what you will need, How to stay technical and how not to be pushed into management, And there's more! When was the last time you read a book that dealt with: Real-world technical management issues, including morale, organization building, coaching, maintaining positive visibility, and communicating with nontechnical management, Personal skill techniques, including our secrets for getting more done each day, dealing with less technical people, ethical dilemas, managing your boss, and loving your job, System administration salary negotiation tips--the first book that includes this topic!, Chapters are divided into The Basics and The Icing. The Basics are those key elements that, when done right, make every other aspect of the job easier. Things like starting all new hosts with the same configuration and picking the right things to automate first. The Icing sections contain all those powerful things that can be done on top of the basics to wow customers and managers. Do the basics first. The icing is a vision for the future that usually only comes with decades of experience.

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The Practice of System and Network Administration

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Security Considerations Security issues are not discussed in this memo. Particularly the cardiac security of certain famous poets.

Not long after computer scientists first began working on the technical design of the network that ultimately became known as the Internet, in 1969, they began to document their discussions, information shared, and decisions made in a series of documents known as the Internet requests for comments that is still being used for this purpose 40 years later. A comprehensive inductive reading of these documents reveals that legal and policy issues were often raised or confronted in the course of resolving technical problems. In many of these instances, the technical decisions that resulted had law-like effects in the sense that they constrained or enabled the ways in which users can communicate and can access and use information over the Internet, whether or not such decisions supported or subverted legal decision-making, and whether or not legal decision-makers understood the societal implications of the technical decisions that were being made. This is one of the two ways in which technical and legal decisio...

The interpenetration of technical and legal decision-making for the internet

@america.jp : identity, nationalism, and power on the internet, 1969-2000

In order to easily distinguish between multiple computers, we give them names. Experience has taught us that it is as easy to choose bad names as it is to choose good ones. This essay presents guidelines for deciding what makes a name good or bad.

Choosing a name for your computer.

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Don Libes

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Choosing a name for your computer.

Choosing a name for your computer