Miscellaneous Information

Links to other sites, DNS News, DNS Information
While we endeavor to ensure consistent quality links to and from our web site, we are not responsible for any content that is not from this TreeWalk DNS domain. Please feel free to send any concerns regarding linked sites and their material or content to support@treewalkdns.com. Links to other sites may not only be restricted to the Miscellanea page and may be included elsewhere on our site, but all external links are subject to this disclaimer. *

DNS Research

Recursion Threat "The Continuing Denial of Service Threat Posed by DNS Recursion (v2.0)" in .PDF format from US-CERT (United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team). DNS Poisoners "We have an ongoing, periodic survey that looks for DNS cache poisoners. A nameserver may be able to poison vulnerable DNS caches by returning bad (incorrect) referrals for important domains." (Measurement Factory)

DNS Related

DNS for Rocket Scientists "This Open Source Guide is about DNS and (mostly) BIND 9.x on Linux and the BSD's (FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD). It is meant for newbies, Rocket Scientists, wannabees and anyone in between." Some Windows implementations are discussed. (Zytrax.com) List of Statements "This section defines in summary format all the statements available in BIND 9.3.0 named.conf. This list is in alphabetic order to make it useful." (Zytrax.com) BIND 9 Administrator Reference Manual (HTML) The complete BIND 9 Administrator Reference Manual (November 4, 2005) is available from our site in HTML format. This guide was distributed with the ISC's BIND 9.3.2 software that TreeWalk has been based upon (this is subject to changes within the TreeWalk distribution). Although TreeWalk was developed to include many improvements and additional features not specific to ISC BIND, these pages describe nameserver usage for the DNS protocol using BIND. Only the page source has been altered, to reflect this site's styles. Note that even though all improvements were shared with the ISC by TreeWalk's founders (ObiWan and NT Canuck) but were not implemented by the ISC, so this guide is not supported by the TWDNS Crew and is only offered here for information purposes. Please review the rest of this site and forums, our search databases, etc. for solving any relevant issues that apply to TreeWalk and it's intended use, if you find one. And if you have a question that hasn't been asked before or have problems with the answer, please post in the forums or newsgroups! (Select the "Forums" link in the top navigation bar for more info.) BIND 9 Administrator Reference Manual (PDF) The complete BIND 9 Administrator Reference Manual (November 4, 2005) is available from our site in Adobe's PDF format. This manual was also distributed with ISC BIND downloads and is offered as an information service only. RFC-Ignorant "We maintain a number of lists (at present "dsn", "abuse", "postmaster", "bogusmx", and "whois") which contain domains or IP networks whose administrators choose not to obey the RFCs, the building block "rules" of the net."

DNS Applications

DNSKong "Pyrenean's Internet Filtering software helps people protect control of their personal information while they use the Internet." ISC BIND "BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain) is an implementation of the Domain Name System (DNS) protocols and provides an openly redistributable reference implementation of the major components of the Domain Name System..."

Internet DNS

ICANN Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers. "The Internet's domain-name system (DNS) allows users to refer to web sites and other resources using easier-to-remember domain names (such as "www.icann.org") rather than the all-numeric IP addresses (such as "192.0.34.65") assigned to each computer on the Internet." OpenNIC "The OpenNIC is a user owned and controlled Network Information Center offering a democratic, non-national, alternative to the traditional Top-Level Domain registries." IANA Internet Assigned Numbers Authority. "Dedicated to preserving the central coordinating functions of the global Internet for the public good." ORSN "European Open Root Server Network. The Independent DNS Solution with IPv6 support for the European Community."

Computer Security

Gibson Research Corporation Much more than security, Steve Gibson's site is a must-read for anyone interested in maintaining computer protection. As well as a handful of small, useful programs fostered by Steve, and his ever-popular online port scanner known world-wide as ShieldsUp!™, the grc.com site is also the home of SpinRite 6™, the PC industry's #1 Mass Storage Data Recovery & Maintenance software. His privately operated Newsgroups contain a huge archive of highly useful tips and information which has been garnered and shared by computer professionals and aficionados from around the globe for anyone who seeks it. Firewall Forensics "This document explains what you see in firewall logs, especially what port numbers means. You can use this information to help figure out what hackers are up to. This document is intended for both security-experts maintaining corporate firewalls as well as home users of personal firewalls."

Computer Privacy

Eric L. Howes "Protecting Your Privacy & Security on a Home PC" by a dedicated and well-respected spyware adversary. iMilly.com An interesting collection of information regarding privacy issues, with Bookmarklets and other tools available for download.

Computer Networking

DNS and ICS "You don't have to be using ICS to enjoy the benefits gained by TreeWalk and the other software explored on this site. You may, however, require a basic understanding of your system's configuration to implement any of the other programs (for TreeWalk you don't need to do anything but install it)." Minimizing Periodic WAN Traffic "This article describes the registry settings and the Group Policy settings that affect periodic wide area network traffic and ISDN costs. If you have a dial-on-demand link, it might be unexpectedly enabled by periodic WAN traffic. You can configure the system's components and services to minimize periodic WAN traffic and to reduce ISDN costs." Security Configuration Editor How to add custom registry settings to Security Configuration Editor: "This article describes how to extend the set of registry values supported by the Security Configuration Manager set of tools." This article was previously published under Q214752.

Computer - Miscellaneous

List of Lists LoL - "The software and services listed here have not been tested by List of Lists and are listed without endorsement." Shell Extension City "Configure Your System Wickedly." System tweaks and more.

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