name server

dig (domain information groper) is a flexible tool for interrogating DNS nameservers. It performs DNS lookups and displays the answers that are returned fromthe name server(s) that were queried

HowtoForge: "Dan Kaminsky earlier this month announced a massive, multi-vendor issue with DNS that could allow attackers to compromise any name server - clients, too.

These two articles explain how you can fix a BIND9 nameserver."

The Internet Systems Consortium, a nonprofit organization that supports the Internet's F-root name server and hosts a number of open-source groups, has received a 1 gigabit Ethernet link from NTT America.

HowtoForge: "This tutorial explains how you can run your own web server on CentOS 5 with the help of Apache and the BIND name server..."

Unbound is a validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver, released under a BSD license. Version 1.0.0 was released on May 20, 2008.

This tutorial explains how to install and use it on Debian Etch, including the creation of zones for your own domains.