How does DNS management work?
 

High!

I am going to enter a certain sector and there is just one big player in the niche. Every new player that has tried to enter it appear they have got people to attack the other sites and take them down.

So I came across DNS management http://dyn.com/dns/ but not sure how it works and how it can save your site from attacks.

Do I still host my website on my existing server and just use there DNS and point them to my server?

Thanks

B

You still manage your server - This is just the Name Server. You will be able to move hosting, add subdomains, make NS changes on the fly and in minutes, rather than the typical 24-72 hour propagation.
It can increase the speed of your site, and If one nameserver goes offline or an area of the internet temporarily fail, there will be several other name servers in other geographical locations to fill the gap and provide nameservices for your domain.

So technically this service coupled with two servers (one main and one mirror) should do the trick

Thanks

B

I'm not educated on what they in particular have going on, but DNS isn't going to save you from a big DDOS if its the only thing you are pinning your hopes on?

Dyn does a great job protecting against DDoS

It is another layer of protection and higher uptime, because manged DNS uses Anycast DNS resolution. This assures there is always a server available to respond to DNS queries.

:2 cents:

Open DNS resolvers are recursive DNS servers that are configured to accept queries from any computers on the Internet. These act as relays between users and authoritative DNS servers; they receive queries for ANY domain name, find the authoritative name server responsible for it and relay the information received from that server back to the user.

Authoritative name servers, such as Dyn, will only respond to queries concerning the domain names they serve.

The attackers would have to do a lot of homework and know exactly what domains are hosted by Dyn to launch their attack, making it much harder...of course not impossible.

Interesting shit.............

Do you use DNS management?