Free DNS vs. Managed DNS: The Real Cost of “Good Enough” If your DNS came bundled with your domain registration, or you pointed your nameservers at Cloudflare’s free plan years ago and haven’t thought much about it since, you’re certainly not alone. For many small and mid-sized businesses, DNS feels like a problem that has […]
The World’s Biggest DNS Outages: What Actually Caused Them and How to Avoid Being Next When a major online service suddenly disappears, the first assumption is often that someone is attacking it. Sometimes that is exactly what happened. The Dyn outage in 2016 is a good example. But look at the post-mortems from some […]
Why DNS is the most underestimated single point of failure in your infrastructure If you are responsible for infrastructure at a midsize enterprise, you have probably spent a considerable amount of time and money removing single points of failure. Workloads may be distributed across multiple data centers or availability zones. Databases are replicated. Network and […]
Your DNS may be in the same failure domain as your CDN or Cloud Provider You have redundant servers. Multiple availability zones. Health checks. A CDN. A WAF. Perhaps even a second cloud region ready to take traffic. But there is a question that is surprisingly easy to overlook: Who runs your DNS? If the answer is […]
DNS Security starts with knowledge We recently released a new feature that will help DNS admins stay in the know. It helps by actively monitoring your DNS zone within the Total Uptime DNS platform and alerts you every time a change is made. For organizations with mission critical DNS, knowing when anyone has made a […]
Total Uptime’s DNS Failover automation is a powerful way of increasing availability for any type of web-based service or application that is accessible via multiple IP addresses. Some examples include: An application behind two or more different ISP links Two or more servers at the same or different sites Two or more cloud or hosting […]
Looking for a handy online DNS Tool, try ours here! Troubleshooting never ends. Problems in network computing can happen at many different levels. One technology that every internet user depends on is DNS, which stands for domain name system. A domain name is an alphanumeric designation for an IP address. DNS servers are the databases […]
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In the 1970s, a new technology known as the internet was born in the engineering laboratory of one of the United States’ most famous schools and like most disruptive technologies, its birth was greeted with derision by many in the IT community. Known then as ARPANET which birthed the internet, a columnist for a prominent […]
Quick, name the most important server in your network – Web server? Active Directory server? Mail server? Those are all important no doubt, but your DNS servers are probably the most critical to your network operations. Imagine you were traveling within a foreign country you had never visited before and the area was totally […]
DNS tunneling is a misuse of DNS. Domain Name Servers (DNS) have been called the internet’s equivalent of a phone book. Rather than remembering an IP address with up to twelve digits, you just need to know the domain name associated with the IP address. DNS tunneling attempts to hijack the protocol to use it […]
