Category: DNS

DNSSEC breakdown

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DNS, Security

The topic of our article today is the DNSSEC. It can be seen as a solution to insecure DNS in other instances. It integrates cryptography and establishes a comprehensive chain of trust. So, this guarantees each level and ensures that your domain is secure. That’s one part of his characteristics. However, you’ll learn about the others a little farther down. So let’s start with the meat of the matter.

DNSSEC full explanation

DNSSEC is an acronym that stands for Domain Name Security Extensions. It is an excellent method for increasing the security of your domains. DNSSEC is a DNS service that associates digital signature (DS) records with DNS data. As a result, the original domain name’s legitimacy may be established.

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Usage and Advantages of Dynamic DNS

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Dynamic DNS – What is it?

Dynamic DNS, also commonly called DDNS, serves to update your name server automatically regularly. It is an extremely helpful service. Every time your IP address (IPv4 or IPv6) changes, the corresponding A record or AAAA record is going to be updated. The main benefit of implementing it is that it is a completely automatic process. That saves you or your administrator precious time and energy for doing it manually.

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Differences between A record and PTR record

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Both A record and PTR record are performing fundamentally important purposes. Let’s explain a little bit more about them.

A record

The A record is a popular and commonly used DNS resource record. Its primary duty is to connect the domain name to its corresponding IP address (IPv4). Therefore, every time a user types in its browser and desires to visit a certain website, it is going to need precisely the A record. Thanks to that, it is going to be able to reach it. 

The A record contains inside the IPv4 address. It is a 32-bit address with 4 combinations of numbers, for illustration, 12.34.56.123.

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What is Reverse DNS?

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A Reverse DNS is usually a premium feature inside a paid managed DNS plan. It is a service that is mostly directed towards IP network owners and offers IP address to domain resolving. Other business owners might also be interested in it because that way, their emails have a better chance of not going to the spam folder. 

Reverse DNS explained 

Reverse DNS, also known as rDNS, does the opposite to a Forward DNS, which is to map IP addresses to hostnames. The purpose of the Reverse DNS is to provide a way to verify the IP addresses and confirm that they are related to a particular domain name. It is especially important when we are talking about the verification of mail servers or other services. 

If you can’t verify, it is safer to mark it as dangerous, and this is what many servers could do if there is not Reverse DNS zone to be checked. 

In short:

In Forward DNS, a domain name is pointing to an IP address where it is hosted.

In Revere DNS, An IP address is pointing to a domain name to verify it belongs to it.  

How to start using Reverse DNS?

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Why do we need to use a DNS TXT record?

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Let’s explore one DNS record with multiple purposes – the DNS TXT record. It is used for various verification methods, and it is essential to the right mail server functionality.

What is a DNS TXT record?

The DNS TXT record is one DNS record type with multiple purposes like authentication, verification, mail policies, and more. The DNS TXT record is showing domain information to external sources.

The TXT record has a text field that can be filled with readable instructions for people or with instructions for computers like cryptographic keys and email instructions.

You can add multiple TXT records for the same DNS zone. They can have different purposes, and sometimes they can work together, like in the case of DMARC.

How to create a TXT record?

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Ensure mail delivery with DNS SPF record

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There is nothing more frustrating than not been able to send emails correctly. You want to reach to clients with new offers, contact suppliers for additional materials, inside the company communication, and all with problems! What you need is to fix all the issues and missing configurations. Ensure email delivery with DNS SPF record and a few more DNS record types.

What is the DNS SPF record?

Domain Name System Sender Policy Framework record, or DNS SPF record for short, is a DNS record that provides important information about a domain name that indicates the outgoing mail servers it has.

If the MX records show which email servers should handle incoming emails for a domain name, the SPF records show which email servers should send emails on behalf of a domain name.

When you send an email to another person, like, for example, John@site.com, the incoming mail servers of site.com will first check your domain name. They will be searching for the SPF record and follow the rules that it establishes. Only if the SPF record is present, then your email will be received without been discarded or put into the SPAM box.

Benefits of SPF record

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NAPTR record explained

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The NAPTR records are not as commonly used as A DNS records, but they have an important purpose: linking servers and users’ addresses in SIP.

What is the NAPTR record?

NAPTR DNS record is a Name Authority Pointer record. It is a type of DNS record that serves to map servers to the users’ addresses in the so-called Session Initiation Protocol or SIP for short. The NAPTR records, together with another type of DNS record called SRV records (service records), allow complex rewriting of rules that provide new uniform resource identifiers (URIs) or domain labels. Depending on the flag of the newly created URI or domain label, it could be used in the following query for a NAPTR record or directly as an output of the entire process for URI mapping.

How to create a NAPTR record?

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What is Round-Robin DNS?

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Round-Robin DNS is the simplest solution that you can apply to create a DNS load balancing for your domain. With Round Robin, you can manage the DNS traffic in a way that will utilize your authoritative name server and redirect the traffic, reducing the stress from a single point (direct to multiple web servers). 

What is load balancing? 

Load balancing is a method for optimizing the network performance by utilizing a particular algorithm to administrate the traffic between multiple servers. The traffic management criteria could be different – the IP address of the visitor, the current occupation of a server, weighted loading balance that depends on the servers’ capacities, and more. 

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What is Master (Primary) DNS zone?

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What is a DNS zone?

The domain namespace in the Domain Name System (DNS) is divided into various segments, with different managers in charge. The administrative responsibility can be delegated to a person, company, or organization. This separation is good for redundancy and better distributes the administrative load.

The Internet’s domain namespace has a hierarchical design. Un is the root domain (the dot after .com), then is the domain name like domainname.com, and under it, there are subdomains like mail.domainname.com or ftp.domainname.com.

Each of these areas can be managed separately with its own Master DNS zone.

A DNS zone has inside DNS records and settings of a DNS namespace. This last one can have one or many DNS zones managed for a specific host or service. All this zone information is saved in a DNS zone file that has the DNS records.

Those records have a mapping between DNS names and their IP address, services and servers, verification purposes, and more. 

Primary DNS server – Everything you need to know

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