November 2001
Intermediate to advanced
788 pages
27h 27m
English
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Protecting Your DNS
All of the redundancy in the world won’t keep your web site accessible on the Internet if potential users type in your domain name and it isn’t properly translated to the IP address of your servers. Having a Domain Name Server (DNS) that is reliable and accurate is a prerequisite for a reliable web site. Nevertheless, DNS issues are commonly overlooked by many organizations.
There are many reasons DNS does not get the attention it deserves:
Managers and executives do not understand what DNS does, how it works, and why it is important.
Because DNS normally functions rapidly and reliably, DNS breakdowns are all the more confusing, unfamiliar, and difficult to diagnose.
As most ISPs do not explicitly charge for providing DNS service, many users conclude that it must either be simple to provide or not be worth very much.
As we discussed in Chapter 2, DNS is a large distributed database that translates hostnames (e.g., www.vineyard.net) into IP addresses (e.g., 204.17.195.100.) When DNS is functioning properly, incoming queries to your nameserver are rapidly replied to with the IP address of your service. Responses contain an assortment of information and an expiration time, better known as a time to live (TTL). DNS answers are designed to be cached: if a thousand customers of Earthlink in San Jose all try to access your web site one afternoon, chances are good that your DNS server will see only a single query from Earthlink; the remaining 999 users get their answer from ...
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