Serial numbers in zone files help your DNS service determine whether it should re-ingest your zone files or ignore them. But there's more to these pseudo timestamps than meets the eye.

Unknown hackers were able to compromise vital systems belonging to ICANN, the organization that manages the global top-level domain system, and had access to the system that manages the files with ...

I'm trying configure my DNS server (BIND9), which is running on Ubuntu Server, to be authoritative for my domain. I only plan on using this for my local LAN so that local clients can resolve each ...

A Standard Primary zone stores the database in a text file. This text file can be shared with other DNS servers that store their information in a text file.

The U.S. government is soliciting input on a way to make the Internet’s addressing system less susceptible to tampering by hackers. Under the idea, records in the DNS root zone would be ...

Hi all, The title says it all. I need to export the records from an instance of BIND as a comma delimited file. I need this in order to run a comparison. I have a vast set of records in BIND and a ...