Lecture and Lab, 1 day

Nominum's Caching Name Server (CNS) is the world's fastest caching name server. It uses adaptive algorithms that deliver superior DNS query caching performance and high service availability. CNS has the latest features to prevent Denial of Service (DoS) attacks and is core to a network infrastructure resilient to attacks from worms, viruses, and hackers.

This one day course provides a comprehensive introduction to Nominum CNS and is essential for DNS administrators who wish to deepen their knowledge of the features of CNS, to configure CNS to deliver the fasted DNS responses to their customers, and to understand how to use CNS to make their network more secure. Students will learn by doing via Nominum's hands-on, high-feedback approach.

Please see our training schedule for information on class dates.

Who should attend?

This course is designed for system administrators and network administrators responsible for managing caching name servers. Little or no previous knowledge of DNS is necessary.

Course Topics

• Overview of CNS
• Introduction to CNS
• The benefits of an caching-only DNS name server
• CNS Configuration
• Basic server setup with configuration files
• Interactive configuration over the Nominum Command Channel API.
• Using the nom_tell program
• Stub and forward statements
• General Operation
• CNS statistics and using statistics to interpret query traffic
• Validating responses
• Performance tuning
• Extended Administration
• Using SNMP, data templates, and the Nominum Nanny
• Battling cache poisoning using Detect and Defend
• Troubleshooting and Scripting
• Cache maintenance
• Delegation forensics
• Performance monitoring with statistics
• Using the Command Channel API to create useful Perl scripts for CNS

Prerequisites
Attendees should have a basic understanding of the Internet (IP addressing and DNS fundamentals) and be comfortable editing files and running software on a UNIX operating system.

More Information

To register for this class or to find out more information, please send email to sales@nominum.com or call +1 877.249.1559 (toll free in US) or +1 650.381.6060.