Articles for tag: external queries, high availability, internal external, load balancing, multiple servers

Michael C. McKay

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Demystifying Split Brain DNS: A Complete Guide

Split Brain DNS is a crucial component of a resilient and fault-tolerant network infrastructure. It involves the splitting of DNS queries between different DNS resolvers, ensuring that the network remains operational even in the event of a failure. Clustering DNS resolvers is a common approach to achieving high availability and load balancing. By distributing the ...

Michael C. McKay

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Split-Horizon DNS: How It Works and Why It Matters

Split-Horizon DNS is a protocol that plays a crucial role in the efficient communication and resolution of queries within a network. It is specifically designed to address the challenges posed by split-horizon networks, where different zones of the network have distinct DNS resolution requirements. In a split-horizon network, there are multiple zones that may require ...