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Open Lab: DNS (0.5 days)

Synopsis

Open Lab aims to provide more lab time for participants. Trainers facilitate the session, provide support and help with troubleshooting as participants try to complete the labs.

This open lab focuses on how DNS works as well as practical DNS server setup guide to manage your domains.

Target audience

This course is designed for systems engineers and administrators who will be managing their DNS infrastructure.

Prerequisites

This workshop assumes that participants have some understanding of routing and basic Linux command line skills.

Other requirements

  • Hardware: It is highly recommended that participants bring their own laptop computers with Wifi(b/g/n) and administrative access to system to practice the lessons learned during the workshops.
  • Software: SSH Client, Telnet Client (PuTTy)
  • Confirm Secure SHell (SSH) is allowed from the office or home network to access the lab infrastructure? Test ssh connectivity, try to connect to route-views.routeviews.org. For example from the CLI type: ssh [email protected]

Course outline

  • Configuring DNS servers