[NBLUG/Announce] General Meeting (2007/09/11) -- How DNS Works

Start: 2007/09/11 - 7:30pm End: 2007/09/11 - 9:00pm Location: O'Reilly, Sebastopol, CA http://nblug.org/genloc Speaker: Kyle Rankin Description: In this talk Kyle will cover the basics of how DNS (Domain Name System) works. The talk will include a short history of the service, how it works today, and a step-by-step walk-through of what happens between entering a domain into a web browser and getting back an IP address. Also covered is how you could use this new-found knowledge to take down the Internet. Specific implementations of DNS (BIND, djbdns, PowerDNS) will not be covered. -- Kyle Rankin NBLUG President The North Bay Linux Users Group http://nblug.org IRC: greenfly(a)irc.freenode.net #nblug kyle(a)nblug.org