CS615 System Administration, Week 07, Segment 1 - The Domain Name System, Part I
Channel: cs615asa
Date: 2021-03-17

In this video, we are beginning our discussion of the DNS, the Domain Name System. We go back to the early days of the internet when copying /etc/hosts from system to system was the way to resolve hosts, and we cover the structure of the domain name space and the creation of the top-level domains.

Slides for this lecture: https://stevens.netmeister.org/615/06-dns-I.pdf
Course Website: https://stevens.netmeister.org/615/

Outline:
00:00 Introduction
02:11 ARPANET, the early days
04:10 RFC597 - RFC810
07:38 Address allocation at SRI-NIC
08:59 The domain name space
12:31 TLDs
15:40 Layer 9