Welcome to DNS Management System’s documentation!

Contents:

• Overview
  • Software Architecture
  • DMS Features
  • Programming Language
  • DNS Server Software
  • Backend Database
  • DMI Server/Clients
  • Network Protocols and Security
  • Web UI Framework
• Frequent Procedures
  • Creating and Copying Zones
  • Deleting and Undeleting Zones
    • Deleting a Zone
    • Undeleting a Zone
  • Editing a Zone
    • DMS Zone File Format
    • Auto-reverse PTR record management
    • Edit Locking
  • Enabling and Disabling Zones
    • Disabling a Zone
    • Enabling A Zone
  • Refreshing and Resetting a Zone
    • Refreshing a Zone
    • Resetting a Zone
  • The DMS zone_tool Session
  • Viewing Zones (and a lot more about them)
    • Listing Zones
    • Listing Deleted Zones
    • Showing a Zone
    • Power Tricks
    • Differencing ZIs and Zones
    • Differencing Zones
• Administration Procedures
  • Adding a DNS Slave to DMS
  • Break Fix Scenarios
    • Log and Configuration Files
    • Checking DMS Status
    • Failing Over as Master Server has Burned (or Subject to EQC Claim)
    • Stuck Zone not Propagating
    • MasterSM Stuck, New Zones not Being Created
    • Stuck ServerSM
    • Rebuilding named data from database
    • Failed Master, Replica /etc not up to date
    • Recovering DB from Backup
    • Regenerating ds/ DS material directory from Private Keys
    • IPSEC not going
  • DMS Master Server Install
    • shell.tar.gz
    • Completing DMS Setup
• System Documentation
  • Auto Reverse PTRs
  • DB Schema - Zone Diagram
  • DMS Central config
  • DNSSEC and DMS
  • etckeeper and /etc on Replica and Master Servers
    • etckeeper and ssh
  • Event Queue Inspection
    • Listing Pending Events
    • Listing failed events
  • Importing, Nuking, and Destroying Zones
  • Master and DR Replica Setup
  • Master server SM, and Reconfiguration
  • Named.conf and Zone Templating
  • Netscript, Iptables and Filtering Incoming IPSEC
  • Python WSGI and JSON/RPC over HTTPS
    • WSGI configuration files and directories
  • IPSEC
    • Racoon
  • References
  • Security Tags (sectags)
  • Servers (replica & slave) and Server Groups (SGs)
    • Servers
    • Server Groups (SGs)
  • State Machine Diagrams
    • Zone State Machine
    • Master State Machine
    • Server State Machine
  • Vacuuming Deleted Zones and Old ZIs
  • Wrapping, Incrementing and Setting Zone Serial Numbers
  • Zone_tool Shell Notes
    • Environment Variables
• Master Server Install from Source Repostitory
  • Packages to Install
  • Linux Kernel Tuning
  • Debian Setup
    • NTP
  • Get DMS Master Source code
  • PostgresQL set up
    • PostgresQL network and user account mapping
    • Postgresql.conf settings
    • DR Postgresql.conf settings
    • Load database schema and functions
  • Install Python Stack
  • Create System Users
  • Install Software
  • Edit dms.conf and test
  • Configuring BIND named
  • Enabling net24dmd at boot
  • Cron Jobs
  • WSGI Setup
  • Rsyslog
  • Master Server Firewall Setup
• Debian Install
  • DNS Management System
  • Single Master Server
  • DNS Topology
  • Documentation
  • Supporting Software Setup Details
    • Vim
    • Less
    • Etckeeper and Ssh
    • IPSEC set up
    • Firewalling on IPSEC links to Master Servers
    • PostgresQL DB Setup and Master/Replica Configuration
    • Master/Replica rsyncd setup
    • Setting up rsyslog on Master and Replica
  • DMS Configuration
    • Setting initial DR settings on both machines
    • Setting up Bind9 master DNS server
    • Setting UP DR bind9 slave server on Replica
    • Importing Zones to DMS system
    • Setting up failover domain
    • Setting up WSGI on apache
  • Setting up a Slave DNS Server
    • IPSEC
    • Rsync
    • Bind9
    • Enable Server
• Best Practice Guidelines
  • Anycast Redux
• Programming Information
  • Dmsdmd Communications Protocol
    • Error Information
    • Editing Cycle
    • Incremental Updates
  • JSON RPC Calls
    • list_zone()
    • show_zone()
    • show_zone_text()
    • create_zone()
    • create_zone()[unpriveleged]
    • copy_zone()
    • enable_zone()
    • disable_zone()
    • delete_zone()
    • set_zone()
    • undelete_zone()
    • destroy_zone()
    • copy_zi()
    • delete_zi()
    • edit_zone()
    • tickle_editlock()
    • cancel_edit_zone()
    • update_zone()
    • show_sectags()
    • show_zone_sectags()
    • add_zone_sectag()
    • delete_zone_sectag()
    • replace_zone_sectags()
    • sign_zone()
    • load_keys()
    • refresh_zone()
    • reset_zone()
    • refresh_zone_ttl()
    • show_configsm()
    • create_reference()
    • delete_reference()
    • rename_reference()
    • list_reference()
    • set_zone_reference()
    • rr_query_db()
    • update_rrs()
    • set_zone_sg()
    • set_zone_alt_sg()
    • list_sg()
  • DMS Errors

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