Details

Each course is presented by Johan Stenstam (Online) and Mark Elkins (In person). Lab exercises are conducted using Laptops running X Windows. Students will connect either via PuTTY (for Windows) or via SSH (Secure SHell) to their (virtual) DNS Servers which are running on a BSD (Unix) system. Students are encouraged to use their own Laptops and/or bring USB memory sticks to keep copies of their work.

 

Who should attend?

The intended audience for these courses would be network engineers, network and DNS administrators as well as managers, people working in IT strategy, IT consultants, IT Security or anyone who needs an understanding of DNS and the DNS role on the Internet.

 

Pre-requisites

Both the Intro and Advanced courses require fundamental knowledge about the Internet, TCP/IP and Unix/Linux. Experience with a Unix/Linux text editor such as vi or emacs and with the Unix/Linux file systems and basic shell/operating system commands is compulsory.

There is a free and paid course "Learn UNIX from scratch using simple and practical approach" on Udemy which you can use to familiarise yourself with Unix.

The Advanced course requires the student to have completed the Introductory course or to at least provide evidence of adequate experience in managing DNS Systems.

 

Course Dates

There are no current DNS courses

Courses are usually held twice a year, around September and at the beginning of the year, late January to early February. Registration is open a month or so before each course. The courses are usually held in Johannesburg (Midrand) and Cape Town. There is an Intro course and an Advance course which alternate in these locations. In an ideal world, the Intro course is the first course of any training session, followed by the Advance Course.