Archived; click post to view.
Excerpt: <rant> I strongly believe that every route/switch engineer, even highly experienced ones, should have at least a fundamental understanding of DNS architectures and best practices. More importantly, it should be understood how DNS is being used in today’s service providers and enterprises. DNS is one of those services that has been applied to many different use cases, such as a form of load balancing, or even an additional layer of security. What is frustrating to me is that, while DNS has made it’s way into so many areas of technology, most of the route/switch guys I talk to have little to no…
The Pros/Cons of Public DNS
September 11, 2012 by 1 Comment
The Global Internet Speedup (NOT)
September 1, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Archived; click post to view.
Excerpt: I recently saw posts from a few sources on a new initiative backed by a consortium that includes Google and OpenDNS to attempt to improve the overall speed of the internet by optimizing the way DNS works on the internet. If you think about it, a great deal of internet traffic is high-volume requests for things like photos, music, video, and the like. You may know, then, that content providers like Akamai have positioned themselves globally around the world to provide this content at a relatively close physical location to those requesting it. This greatly decreases the length of time required…
World IPv6 Day: What It Is and What You Should Do
May 27, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Archived; click post to view.
Excerpt: Arguably the most important day for IPv6 since it was created is World IPv6 Day, which falls on June 8th, 2010. This has been a highly publicized day when the top internet content providers like Google, Facebook, and Yahoo provide native IPv6 DNS records to their sites. But what does this mean? And how can you be prepared? Most of all, what will break, if anything? What will happen on World IPv6 Day? Most leading internet content providers have not added DNS IPv6 (“AAAA”) records to their root domain names. Most of them have provided a subdomain, such as “ipv6.exampledomain.com” -…
