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Securing BIND with DNSSEC

Securing BIND with DNSSEC

- In this episode, we show you how to use DNSSEC to prevent DNS poisoning attacks, stay tuned. - [Announcer] You're watching ITProTV. - Hey, welcome back to LPIC-2. In this episode, we're going to be talking about securing BIND with DNSSEC. So Don, can you give us kind of an overview of what we're going to talk about? - Sure, we're going to talk a little bit about how DNSSEC works and why it's important. We'll see some of the tools that we need to use it. And then lastly, we'll learn how to digitally sign a forward lookup zone to make sure we've got an extra level of security and authentication for our DNS records. - So first things first why do we need DNSSEC on our BIND servers? - All right, well, this all really stems from just BIND itself. DNS was developed in the early 1980s, 40 years ago. And back then, the world was a safer place. The internet was full. Well, the internet really didn't exist in its current form,…

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