[[Category:OPS535]][[Category:rchan]][[Category:peter.callaghan]]

= Due Date =

* Weight: This assignment worth 15% of your final grade.

* <b>Important</b>: You must join and present in the online assessment meeting on the due date to demonstration the required task on your systems (VMs) in order to have your assignment graded.

* You email server must be configured to check the SPF (sender policy framework) of other domains for incoming email and reject emails that are violating the sender policy.

* Configure your pri-dns server to implement and provide the SPF protection for your assignment domain.

**Provide the administrator for your top domain (The root name server operator(s)) with a copy of the DS key for your domain. If you have not already done so, include the glue record as well.

**Configure a DNSSEC Trust Anchor so that your co-nfs server considers your primary DNS server (the one with the <yourname>.ops zone) to already be authenticated.

You also want to monitor the DNS queries your primary DNS server received in a given period of time. Use ip accounting to keep track or log those DNS queries activities. You need to be able to produce the following type of reports:

* total number of packets and total number of bytes received in a given period of time to your primary DNS server.

= Evaluation and Grading =