NBNS serves much the same purpose as DNS does: translate human-readable names to IP addresses e.g. www.wireshark.org to 65.208.228.223. As NetBIOS can run on top of several different network protocols e.g. IP, IPX, …, other implementations of the NetBIOS services have their own mechanisms for translating NetBIOS names to addresses. NBNS’s services are more limited, in that NetBIOS names exist in a flat name space, rather than DNS’s hierarchical one multiple flat name spaces can exist, by using NetBIOS scopes, but those are rarely used, and NBNS can only supply IPv4 addresses; NBNS doesn’t support IPv6.
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ISC Diary | What’s In A Name?
This nightmare scenario is, unfortunately, reality for at least 50 organizations – ones that I’ve been able to uncover – and I’m certain that there are many, many more. Each of these organizations has been a victim of a malicious alteration of their domain information – an alteration that added new machine names to their existing information, and allowed bottom-feeding scam artists to abuse their good reputation to boost the search-engine profile of their drug, app, “personal ad,” or porn sites.
Create Your Own Web Server With BIND And Apache On CentOS 5 (Simplified)
Installing necessary packages
yum install bind bind-chroot bind-libs bind-utils caching-nameserver -y
After installing the necessary packages you are ready to start configuring named.conf. You may check and see that there is no named.conf in your /etc/ directory in Centos 5. No worries here you can see a sample named.conf file. Now create the file /etc/named.conf and copy/paste the content of the sample config file – just make sure you replace website.com with your own domain name.
Centos making things difficult again.
DNS Best Practices, Network Protections, and Attack Identification
This white paper provides information on general best practices, network protections, and attack identification techniques that operators and administrators can use for implementations of the Domain Name System (DNS) protocol.
via DNS Best Practices, Network Protections, and Attack Identification – Cisco Systems.