http://posadis.sourceforge.net/ 2009-11-26T13:07:20+01:00 text/html 2005-07-21T03:56:30+01:00 anonymous@200.203.5.166 http://posadis.sourceforge.net/dns/what_makes_up_a_zone What makes up a zone A zone is a part of the DNS tree (see the DNS Overview) that is served by a group of Authoritative DNS servers. The actual contents of a zone is basically just a list of Resource records (RRs). There are different kinds of RRs ... text/html 2005-07-19T14:41:18+01:00 anonymous@85.101.69.229 http://posadis.sourceforge.net/posadis/posadis 05432038417 The posadis program is the main server program for the Posadis Domain Name Server. Usage posadis [options] Where possible [options] are: -c configfile - Specifies the location of the Posadis configuration file. By default, Posadis ... text/html 2005-05-22T16:28:36+01:00 anonymous@68.204.202.94 http://posadis.sourceforge.net/dns/authoritative_dns Authoritative DNS As mentioned in the DNS Overview, authoritative DNS servers are the DNS servers that know store the information about zones in the DNS. There are usually multiple DNS servers that are authoritative for the same zone. There are diff... text/html 2005-04-28T15:30:04+01:00 meilof@81.69.173.34 http://posadis.sourceforge.net/posadis/faq Frequently Asked Questions What does Posadis mean? Posadis is named after a (randomally picked) city somewhere in South America, called "Posadas". To prevent ambiguity, I changed one character of the name. "Las Posadas" is the n... text/html 2005-03-18T14:27:14+01:00 anonymous@129.125.21.24 http://posadis.sourceforge.net/posadis/posadisrc Posadisrc The posadisrc file is the main configuration file for Posadis. It contains all Posadis configuration settings, and refers to other configuration files such as zone master files. Location of Posadisrc The default location for the posadisr... text/html 2005-03-18T14:19:12+01:00 anonymous@129.125.21.24 http://posadis.sourceforge.net/posadis/caching_in_posadis Caching in Posadis Posadis can act as a caching DNS server for your local network; it can act as a forwarder, too. Posadis has caching enabled by default, so there's nothing you need to do, either: Posadis will act as a caching DNS server by default... text/html 2005-03-18T14:17:07+01:00 anonymous@129.125.21.24 http://posadis.sourceforge.net/dns/using_dns_for_naming_hosts Using DNS for naming hosts The most important use of DNS (and the reason it was invented), is to find an IP number by a domain name. When used for this, DNS is something like the telephone directory for the Internet: if you type in a domain name suc... text/html 2005-03-09T19:55:20+01:00 meilof@81.69.173.34 http://posadis.sourceforge.net/dns The Domain Name System The Domain Name System, or DNS for short, is something like the telephone directory for the Internet: if you type in a domain name such as www.posadis.org in, for example, your browser, it will be looked up and converted to an... text/html 2005-03-09T19:52:54+01:00 meilof@81.69.173.34 http://posadis.sourceforge.net/dns/news/20050308-wildcard-phishing Phishers Use Wildcard DNS to Build Convincing Bait URLs Netcraft yesterday reported about people using DNS wildcard records for phising, which Wikipedia defines as the fraudulent acquisition, through deception, of sensitive personal information suc... text/html 2005-03-09T19:51:59+01:00 meilof@81.69.173.34 http://posadis.sourceforge.net/dns/news DNS in the news From time to time, the Domain Name System is mentioned in technical or non-technical media; on this page, we provide links to articles with relevant information. So if you read or someting about DNS, please add it here1). 08-03-200... text/html 2005-03-06T19:53:24+01:00 anonymous@80.56.29.189 http://posadis.sourceforge.net/misc/building_on_win32 Building on Win32 This document describes how to get a working autotools build environment that is sufficient to build Posadis and associated tools with. Installing GTK+ is only nessecary to build the graphical tools such as Zoneedit and Dnsquery. ... text/html 2005-03-06T13:39:31+01:00 anonymous@80.56.29.189 http://posadis.sourceforge.net/misc/cvs CVS All Posadis source code -- past, present and future -- is stored in the Posadis CVS repository. CVS is available for many operating systems; for Windows, try this. CVS for Windows is also part of Mingw's MSYS. To get a module from CVS, use some... text/html 2005-03-05T00:44:11+01:00 anonymous@80.56.29.189 http://posadis.sourceforge.net/dns/custom_root_nameservers Custom root nameservers As we mentioned in the DNS overview, a resolver (if it doesn't have any information in its cache) starts a query by asking the root nameservers. A resolver has a baked-in list of root nameservers (i.e., nameservers that are a... text/html 2005-03-05T00:25:44+01:00 anonymous@80.56.29.189 http://posadis.sourceforge.net/dns/resource_records Resource Records This page documents the most common Resource Record (RR) types, including examples of how to use them in your zone. For an overview of how a basic zone skeleton might look like, see What makes up a zone. For more information about t... text/html 2005-02-27T17:08:56+01:00 anonymous@80.56.29.189 http://posadis.sourceforge.net/dns/news/20050202-bright-ip-spoofing 2 February 2005: Criminals use DNS spoofing to make money Various Dutch media are carrying a story today from a new Dutch technology/lifestyle magazine called Bright about DNS spoofing: taking over the control of domain names. There reportedly is a ... text/html 2005-02-27T16:38:28+01:00 meilof@80.56.29.189 http://posadis.sourceforge.net/dns/dns_cache_snooping DNS cache snooping DNS cache snooping is a technique to find out what requests have been done to a caching DNS server by using the Time To Live (TTL) values in its answers. If you run a caching DNS server that is visible to the internet, with cache ... text/html 2005-02-26T22:49:43+01:00 meilof@80.56.29.189 http://posadis.sourceforge.net/posadis/revmap [created] The "Revmap" module The revmap module offers a convenient way to automatically do reverse and forward mapping of domain names for large IP namespaces. It can algorithmically generate answers to in-addr.arpa reverse-mapping queries by givin... text/html 2005-02-26T22:44:53+01:00 meilof@80.56.29.189 http://posadis.sourceforge.net/posadis/modules Modules Modules can be used to add functionality to Posadis: they can do various tasks such as monitoring zone files (the monitor module), or adding new zone types (e.g. the revmap module). The main Posadis program already has most important functio... text/html 2005-02-26T22:37:58+01:00 meilof@80.56.29.189 http://posadis.sourceforge.net/posadis/index Posadis 0.70.* documentation Getting started for Unix users Getting started for Windows users Setting the DNS server on workstations Reference topics: Posadisrc - main configuration file Zone files - store information about one zone Master file... text/html 2005-02-26T22:36:34+01:00 meilof@80.56.29.189 http://posadis.sourceforge.net/posadis/secondary The Secondary zone type The secondary zone type makes Posadis a secondary DNS server for the zone (see Authoritative DNS). As a secondary DNS server, Posadis can also accept DNS Update messages: it will forward them to the masters for the zone, as ...