Must Read:

"How DNS Servers Work" By Neil Randall, April 27, 1998 in PC Magazine http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,1600861,00.html

Nice to read:

Connected: An Internet Encyclopedia > Ping http://www.freesoft.org/CIE/Topics/53.htm Connected: An Internet Encyclopedia >  TraceRoute http://www.freesoft.org/CIE/Topics/54.htm PC Webopaedia: traceroute http://webopedia.internet.com/TERM/t/traceroute.html "Nailing Down Your Backbone: The Imprecise Art Of Tracerouting"  by Jeffrey Carl in Boardwatch http://boardwatch.internet.com/isp/summer99/tracerouting.html

Online Resources:

The Public DNS Service: Free DNS service http://soa.granitecanyon.com/ Web-based traceroute from University of Arizona http://www.telcom.arizona.edu/cgi-bin/trace Tom's Network Tools (Web-based traceroute, ping, and whois from the San Diego Supercomputer Center) http://www.sdsc.edu/~hutton/Tools.html

Resource Lists:

PC Webopaedia: DNS http://webopedia.internet.com/TERM/D/DNS.html PC Webopaedia: ping http://webopedia.internet.com/TERM/P/PING.html PC Webopedia: whois http://webopedia.internet.com/TERM/w/whois.html About.com: Business/Careers > Industries > Internet Industry > DNS http://internet.about.com/msubdnsref.htm Yahoo: Computers and Internet>Communications and Networking>Protocols>DNS http://dir.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet /Communications_and_Networking/Protocols/DNS/