Objective

To provide the participants with in depth technical information on advanced concepts of DNS, configuration, operations and security.

Who should attend?

Network engineers, network planners, systems administrators and anyone who is involved in administering Network Operation Centres.

Course Contents :

• Performance management of DNS.
• Handling of Large Zone Files
• Scaling up DNS for Growing registry
• DNS Troubleshooting and Audit.
• DNS Configuration problems
• Troubleshooting (DNSReport.com, DNSStuff.com)
• DNS Audit
• DNS Security.
• Threats to the DNS
• DNS Spoofing attack, DNS Cache Poisoning, DDoS attack, etc.
• Improving DNS Security
• DNS Security Configuration (Maximizing BIND DNS Security)
• Overview and Basic Deployment of DNSSEC
• IDN and its Technical Implementation.
• Introduction to IDN
• Technical Implementation
• Converting a string using NamePrep, Converting a string to Punycode, etc.
• IDN Security Problems
• Dynamic DNS Update.
• Introduction to Dynamic DNS Update
• Incremental Zone Transfer

Biography of instructor:

Brent Lee, senior technical manager of Web Commerce Communications Limited, Registry and registrar operation technical personnel. Brent is currently working in WEBNIC maintaining WEBNIC registrar system, HKDNR and CDNIC registry system. He is the core engineer for the WEBNIC registry and registrar system. He has over 8 years of project implementation experience which 4 years are in domain name industry.

Brent has numerous experiences in EPP such as integration to Verisign, Neulevel, SGNIC, CNNIC, CDNIC, EURID, Afilias and PIR. He has completed the construction for CDNIC and HKDNR EPP server and client SDK.

Besides EPP, Brent is currently handling the DNS services for WEBNIC and CDNIC. He is familiar with Dynamic DNS and the feature is implemented in WEBNIC registryASP registry system. WebNIC has implemented IDN into zone file, Brent has experience in the procedure and steps required to perform IDN resolution at zone level.

Champika Wijayatunga is a Senior Training Specialist at the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC), the Regional Internet Registry for Asia Pacific. He is responsible for development and delivery of regular face-to-face training and technical workshops for the APNIC region. His areas of interest includes Internet Resource Management, DNS, Security, Routing & IPv6. Prior to APNIC he worked as a Software Systems Specialist, Systems Engineer, an Instructor at IBM Corporation (IBM Sri Lanka) and as a Research Associate at the Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok, Thailand. Champika is currently based in Brisbane, Australia and has a Bachelors degree in Electronics Engineering and a Masters degree in Computer Science & Engineering.