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Managing Mission - Critical Domains and DNS
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Managing Mission - Critical Domains and DNS

by Mark E.Jeftovic
June 2018
Intermediate to advanced
368 pages
11h 1m
English
Packt Publishing
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Via glue records

This alternative method is sub-optimal, for one reason because the TLD glue records will typically hold longer TTLs, but it works better than total outages. If you are perhaps running unicast nameservers, or not announcing nameservers from within your own address space (see Chapter 12, Nameserver Considerations), you can obtain similar results by doing the following:

  • Keeping the TTL on your NS hostname RRs very low, such as 300 seconds or even less
  • When DDoS-ed, change the glue records for your nameservers to the IPs of the nameservers colocated within the scrubbing centers

We use this approach on Zoneedit, which has 20+ unicast nameservers scattered around, and we have four nodes within scrubbing centers. When any of the ...

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ISBN: 9781789135077