Cloud DNS can improve how quickly users reach your website without requiring you to migrate the website itself to a different hosting provider. When businesses investigate slow websites, they usually focus on hosting, image optimization, caching, or a CDN. DNS resolution is often overlooked. Yet every new visit normally starts with a DNS lookup. Does […]
Read MoreDNS Cache Poisoning: A Threat to Network Security
DNS cache poisoning, also known as DNS spoofing, is a type of attack that exploits vulnerabilities in the domain name system (DNS) to divert Internet traffic away from legitimate servers and towards fake ones. It involves inserting a fake address record into the DNS resolver’s cache causing the resolver to return an incorrect IP address […]
Read MoreHost Command: Utilizing DNS Lookup
The Host Command is a simple utility for performing Domain Name System (DNS) lookups in Linux. It’s used to find the IP address of a specific domain. Additionally, it can be used to find the domain name corresponding to an IP address (reverse lookup), the mail server associated with a domain, as well as nameservers […]
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