DNSSEC Training Course/Tutorial
Wednesday 16th November 2011
Venue: Imperial Hotel, Russell Square, London WC1B 5BB
This one day tutorial is aimed at experienced or aspiring DNS administrators who want to learn about DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC). A basic knowledge of Unix and DNS is expected and required.
Topics covered include:
What is DNSSEC? DNS vulnerabilities, How DNSSEC addresses them, New DNSSEC resource records, Chain of trust / islands of trust /, DLV DNSSEC-capable servers
DNSSEC slave servers BIND, NSD, Protecting zone transfer with TSIG
BIND utilities Creating DNSSEC keys, Manual zone signing
The Unbound DNS caching server Scenarios for Unbound deployment, Configuring DNSSEC, Islands of trust, DLV, Unbound and your own islands of trust
BIND auto-sign Configuration,Dynamic DNS (DDNS),Configuring BIND update policies,Creating SIG(0) keys, Dynamic updates with nsupdate
Monitoring
PowerDNS Serving DNSSEC-signed zones from PowerDNS, PowerDNS as an in-line signer
DNSSEC “applications” SSHFP, What is DANE?
Key rollovers dig / drill
Who should attend? Those who use DNS and are considering deploying DNSSEC. Attendees should have some experience of running a BIND9 name server and be familiar with the jargon for resource records, as well as the syntax of zone files. We will discuss two quite different brands of name server for serving DNSSEC: BIND9 and PowerDNS.
Attendees are encouraged to bring their own laptops (Unix/Linux recommended, but Windows OK) so that they can follow the practical exercises. We will set up an authoritative DNSSEC-signed zone and will configure an Unbound caching server to validate DNS queries.
Attendees will receive a complimentary hard copy of Alternative DNS Servers as part of the tutorial.
Tutor biography: Jan-Piet Mens is an independent consultant and sysadmin. He has authored the book Alternative DNS Servers as well as a variety of technical publications (http://mens.de)
Visit the web site at: www.ukuug.org/events/DNSSEC/ for delegate costs and on-line booking
Places are limited – early booking is essential
Early-bird rates available until 3rd October