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OSX, Chrome, and DNS

Everything in getting my personal site setup went fairly smoothly, including updating my registrar’s DNS records to point my domain name...

0 replies - 1832 views - 01/22/13 by Alex Holmes in Articles

Migrating from BIND DNS servers to Amazon Route 53 by using cli53

Amazon Route 53 offers DNS as a hosted service. They maintain robust DNS service for you with easy to user web interface and API. Name servers are part of...

0 replies - 4510 views - 11/23/12 by Mikko Ohtamaa in Articles

Configuration in DNS

In the latest version of the ThoughtWorks Technology Radar one of the areas covered is ‘configuration in DNS’, a term which I first came across...

0 replies - 2936 views - 11/06/12 by Mark Needham in Articles

Fixing Intermittent DNS Problems on Ubuntu 12.04

I’ve been having some intermittent DNS resolution failures on my recent installation of Ubuntu 12.04. Googling showed that I’m not the only one, and...

0 replies - 3418 views - 10/09/12 by Eli Bendersky in Articles

My Thoughts on Public DNS and Global Traffic Traffic Management

Last weekend I read this good paper on Public DNS and Global Traffic Management, written by scientists over at Microsoft Research. The paper on IEEE Xplore...

0 replies - 2811 views - 07/06/12 by Rodrigo De Castro in Articles

An Introduction to Route 53, AWS's Scalable DNS Service

Route 53 is the scalable DNS service from AWS. It’s fairly simple and straightforward, and Amazon provides excellent documentation with detailed...

0 replies - 7462 views - 07/01/12 by Shameer Cee in Articles

Testing DNS Servers with Python - dns_compare.py

Sometimes it might be nice to be able to test a DNS server’s output, such as with a continuous monitoring system, or as a validation tool when migrating...

0 replies - 3706 views - 06/28/12 by Joe Miller in Articles

DNS Performance Testing Tools: My Writer Modules

The BIND-DLZ project publishes an excellent set of performance testing tools which make it easy to generate a lot of fake DNS data for a variety of DNS server...

0 replies - 3627 views - 05/11/12 by Joe Miller in Articles