Basic Round Robin distributes traffic evenly across multiple servers. You can think of it as a rotor that cyclically returns one endpoint at a time. For instance, if you had two or more records (A, AAAA, ANAME, CNAME) with the same name configured to point to different IP addresses, then queries will have a 50/50 chance of being returned by either of the IPs in your configuration.
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Free Advanced DevOps Courses
These courses are all free (or come with a free trial) and you can take them at your own pace, so you really have nothing to lose. Well, maybe your time, but investing in your growth and development is never a waste.
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How to Add a Domain For Managed DNS
Using templates for DNS records can be a huge time saver. It lets you apply the same standards and configurations to all of your domains at once. If any changes are made to your template, then it will update all records that use the template.
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How To Configure DNS Failover in 5 Simple Steps
Preventing outages isn’t just a good idea. Nowadays, it’s a necessity! Even sites that haven’t previously been considered “mission-critical” are now feeling the pressure of growing demands and expectations of consumers.
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Infrastructure and DNS Redundancy is Key to Preventing Outages
According to Alexa, out of the 75K top ranking domains, 346 of them are managed by Dyn and experienced a complete outage yesterday due to their lack of DNS redundancy. While 346 out of 75K doesn’t sound like a lot, it is when you consider the amount of people that frequent the sites affected. Large websites such as Indeed, Chewy, Carvana, Fandom, Houzz, Sephora, and Credit Karma to name a few, took a considerable hit from this latest debacle.
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