Tag: DNS

Why GeoDNS Is Essential For Your Success?

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Do you want to learn what the purpose of GeoDNS is? Great!! You are on the right article because we will exactly explore this. Additionally, we will explain for who GeoDNS is advantageous and how to make the comparison between Anycast and GeoDNS. Finally, we will see about the thing you need to think about before paying for it. 

What does GeoDNS imply?

The Geographical Domain Name System, often known as GeoDNS, is an effective method of traffic allocation. It works by responding to queries based on their location. Additionally, it can be seen as a local or worldwide traffic director.

GeoDNS is a robust load balancing solution that optimizes traffic to domains. Utilizing it lessens issues and fortifies networks.

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User Datagram Protocol – What is it?

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User Datagram Protocol, or simply UDP, is one of the most essential components of the Internet Protocol Suite. It is a collection of Internet-related network protocols. But how does it work, and when do we use it? We will take a detailed look at this point in today’s article.

User Datagram Protocol – detailed explanation

The User Datagram Protocol (UDP) is a well-known high-speed communications protocol. It’s what we employ to make low-latency, loss-tolerant connections between various Internet services.

The User Datagram Protocol allows data to be transferred before the recipient agrees, which speeds up the communication process. As a result, UDP is the preferred method for time-sensitive communications such as DNS lookups, Voice over IP (VoIP), video, or audio transfers.

History of UDP

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A record and PTR record: What are the differences?

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A record and PTR record are an essential part of the Domain Name System process. They appear to be similar at first look, but they are actually quite different. In today’s article, we’ll look at the characteristics of both records and how they differ.

A record – meaning

The A record, also known as the address record, is one of the essential DNS records. It uses a domain name to find the device’s IP address connected to the Internet. As a result, every time a user types in their browser and wants to visit a specific website, they will require the A record. Thanks to that, it is going to be able to reach it. 

What is a DNS record and why is it important?

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IPAM: Explained

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Have you ever wondered how every device is looking for an Internet connection? And they are so many! This happens daily and all around the world. With the growing number of laptops, smartphones, tablets, and other devices, network management is becoming very complex.

Imagine how time-consuming it is to assign IP addresses or to track them. And network administrators have so many more responsibilities to comply with. It is not a choice to do this manually. In that case, IP address management (IPAM) is very beneficial.

Why is IPAM important?

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DNS load balancing: What is It and Why Do You Need It?

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What is DNS load balancing all about? Well, the fact is that you can’t allow a web server to overload. If your business website has a slow and faulty network, it will definitely impact the end-user experience. It will cause poor perception of the site and so on to your organization. 

Therefore it is important to implement a load balancing method when you are managing your network.

What is DNS load balancing?

DNS load balancing is a technique for administrating the traffic of a hostname. It is about troubleshooting the distribution of inbound network and application traffic across multiple servers.

Websites with a lot of traffic are operating with many requests from users or clients. For every request, they have to return the exact and correct text, images, video, or application data, all in a fast and safe way.

DNS load balancers are intelligent. First, they use various criteria and examine the traffic. Next, they decide to let the traffic proceed or stop it and redirect it to a different server based on the current packet load or another parameter. 

Complete comparison between DNS load balancing and Hardware load balancing

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How does Anycast DNS work?

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The Domain Name System (DNS) is one of the foundations of the Internet, yet most people outside of networking probably don’t realize they use it every day to do their jobs or check their email. Anycast DNS helps using the Internet to be even faster and efficient. Let’s talk about that a little bit more.

What is Anycast DNS?

When you choose Anycast DNS as your routing method, you can establish your IP address in several DNS servers.

Through Anycast, different servers positioned in many geographical locations are capable of answering the query. The closest of them will provide the IP address to the user. 

Also, if one of the DNS servers is down for some reason, the second closest server will receive the request. 

Experience is faster and better with Anycast DNS when we speak about loading time, waiting for a response, etc.

Before we continue, let’s explain a little bit more about what DNS is.

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What is a Web redirect record, and how to use it?

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What is it?

The web redirect record can redirect a request for one URL to another URL. It is also known as URL redirect or HTTP forward and is often written as WR record.

You can use it to make a particular web page available on multiple URL addresses.

There are two types of web redirects:

  • 301 redirect. This redirect is permanent. You will be showing that the URL that was before is already gone for good, and this is the new location of the page that the search engines should learn. Eventually, the search engines will forget the previous URL and remember the new one.
  • 302 redirect. This redirect is temporary. It will tell the search engines that they should not forget the URL and just give it some time to get back. During the time the URL is not working, the traffic can be redirected to the main page or to another. If it is a product page, you can direct to a similar one, so you don’t lose sales.

How to start managing Web redirect records?

What’s inside a Web redirect record?

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