{"id":1487,"date":"2019-02-01T23:12:51","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T23:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-infoblox-blog.pantheonsite.io\/?p=1487"},"modified":"2020-05-06T10:27:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T17:27:00","slug":"is-your-dns-trying-to-tell-you-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.infoblox.com\/blog\/community\/is-your-dns-trying-to-tell-you-something\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Your DNS Trying to Tell You Something?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It would seem like lately our network services infrastructure \u2013 specifically our DNS infrastructure \u2013 has been trying to send us a message.<\/p>\n<p>On\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dnsflagday.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\">DNS\u00a0Flag\u00a0Day<\/a>, misconfigured or outdated DNS servers (or even misconfigured network devices) will be at risk of not resolving the public domain names they host.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-121\" src=\"https:\/\/live-infoblox-blog.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/EDNS-and-CDNs.jpg\" alt=\"Infoblox announces industry-first cloud-managed DDI for the branch office\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.infoblox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/EDNS-and-CDNs.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.infoblox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/EDNS-and-CDNs-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the last few days,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2019\/01\/30\/azure_sql_delete\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\">Azure customers lost their Databases<\/a>\u00a0due to a failure in Microsoft\u2019s External DNS provider.<\/p>\n<p>So what is the message we seem to be getting (or missing)? Enterprises need to invest time and care to good-old core network services, including DNS!<\/p>\n<p>Core network services such as DNS are not in most IT teams\u2019 top-of-mind, so it\u2019s very easy to become focused on applications and initiatives that depend on DNS, forgetting to pay the same focus to DNS itself.<\/p>\n<p>And when issues do arise and we need to pay attention, we are tempted by short-term fixes and workarounds; but these \u201cfixes\u201d eventually start showing side-effects.<\/p>\n<p>As the\u00a0<strong>DNS Experts<\/strong>, Infoblox can help.<\/p>\n<p>Infoblox makes it easier for enterprise customers to<\/p>\n<p>1) maintain their DNS software up-to-date<\/p>\n<p>2) apply sound configuration practices across all their DNS infrastructure<\/p>\n<p>3) provide expert technical support and advise when issues arise<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re ready to pay some attention to good-old DNS,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/info.infoblox.com\/contact-sales?_ga=2.111702594.755818062.1548706009-1321441111.1535749488&amp;utm_source=blox-community&amp;utm_campaign=community-q2\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">contact Infoblox<\/a>\u00a0today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It would seem like lately our network services infrastructure \u2013 specifically our DNS infrastructure \u2013 has been trying to send us a message. 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In the last few days,\u00a0Azure customers lost their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":121,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,28,76,16,98],"class_list":{"0":"post-1487","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-community","8":"tag-cloud-automation","9":"tag-ddi","10":"tag-digital-transformation","11":"tag-infoblox","12":"tag-microsoft","13":"entry"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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