Edge DNS Secondary Implementation: Order of Operations for NS Zone and Registrar Records
Akamai Edge DNS service delivers edge-based, authoritative domain services for thousands of organizations. These organizations trust Edge DNS to deliver reliable and performant responses, reflected by a 100% uptime service-level agreement. Along with unmatched reliability, Edge DNS boasts an impressive geographically diverse footprint and an intelligently deployed anycast network, ensuring ... Read More
DNS as Code
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Continuous Delivery methods have become increasingly popular amongst development and operations teams as a means of maintaining high-performing websites. Code repositories, build servers, and configuration management systems are now industry standards, as these tools replace ... Read More
Geolocation and DNS Traffic Management
What is GTM Global Traffic Management, or GTM, is a DNS-based load balancing service that offers application owners a level of flexibility and insight that is unmatched by traditional on-prem solutions. Highly scalable and fault-resilient, GTM offers customers a layer ... Read More
Managing Traffic From the Outset – How GTM Can Make Your Deployments Easier
What is GTM Global Traffic Management, or GTM, is a DNS-based load balancing service that offers application owners a level of flexibility and insight that is unmatched by traditional on-prem solutions. Highly scalable and fault-resilient, GTM offers customers a layer ... Read More
All Resolvers Aren’t Equal – Don’t Worry, GTM is Aware
Global Traffic Management, or GTM, is a DNS-based load balancing service that offers application owners a level of flexibility and insight that is unmatched by traditional on-prem solutions. Highly scalable and fault-resilient, GTM offers customers a layer of abstraction between endpoints, so traffic can be easily shifted between targets. However, ... Read More
Fast DNS: Zone Apex Mapping & DNSSEC
Introduction Along with its DDoS resilience and impressive global footprint, Fast DNS affords zone administrators additional technical flexibility and implementation options. One example is Zone Apex Mapping (ZAM) -- a feature that enables apex domains to be mapped directly to ... Read More
DNSSEC: How It Works & Key Considerations
From its beginnings as a replacement for a centralized database, the Domain Name System (DNS) has evolved into a dynamic, highly distributed, question-answer protocol. The proverbial "phone book of the internet" has increased in complexity and scale alongside the rapid growth of the World Wide Web. One primary example is ... Read More
Fast DNS Secondary Implementation: Order or Operations for NS Zone & Registrar Records
Akamai's Fast DNS service provides cloud based, authoritative domain services thousands of organizations. Fast DNS is the most widely deployed cloud DNS service pushed to the edge of the Internet. Every organization must protect their domain name. Akamai's Fast DNS is built to focused domain name availability, security, resiliency, and ... Read More