The Australian National University
comp3310 Computer Networks
Reference Bookshelf
Systems and Lab software
Reference reading
The O'Reilly series of books has some useful volumes, and some have
sample chapters on line if you can't beg borrow or buy a copy.
- Paul Albitz and Cricket Liu
- DNS and BIND, 3rd Edition, O'Reilly, September 1998 ISBN 1-56592-512-2.
with a sample chapter called
How Does DNS Work?
- Eric Hall
- Internet Core Protocols: The Definitive Guide,
February 2000, ISBN 1-56592-572-6; with a
sample chapter on IP
Internet Standards - RFCs
Domain Name System RFCs
from ftp://munnari.oz.au/rfc/DOMAIN*
- RFC 1032
- DOMAIN ADMINISTRATORS GUIDE November 1987
- RFC 1033
- DOMAIN OPERATIONS GUIDE November 1987
- RFC 1034
- Domain Concepts and Facilities November 1987
- RFC 1035
- Domain Implementation and Specification November 1987
- RFC 1886
- IPv6 DNS Extensions December 1995
- RFC 1982
- Serial Number Arithmetic August 1996
- RFC 1995
- Incremental Zone Transfer in DNS August 1996
- RFC 1996
- DNS NOTIFY August 1996
- RFC 2136
- DNS Update April 1997
- RFC 2137
- SDNSDU April 1997
- RFC 2181
- Clarifications to the DNS Specification July 1997
- RFC 2308
- DNS NCACHE March 1998
- RFC 2535
- DNS Security Extensions March 1999
Other DNS references and Authorities
- IANA - Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
- domain names
- InterNIC
- InterNIC
- ICANN
- ICANN
- Melbourne
IT
- Australian .com authority
- Death of the Internet
- short article by David Purdue.
Other RFCs and general sources
Some of these sources of RFCs come with better formats than plain text.
- RFC search service
- search service
(use the Australia option for best transfer speed; Ohio
State is popular)
- ftp, compressed sources of RFCs
- ftp directory at
munnari (Melbourne University)
- html index to RFCs (also has keyword search facility of dubious usefulness)
- index page of RFCs at Ohio State University (USA)
-
- RFC for TFTP version 2
- RFC 783 (UMelb, compressed, via
ftp) or
RFC 783 (Ohio State Uni USA, html)
- NFS version 3
- RFC 1813
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