Scaling DNS
summary
The talk examines DNS's long history and practical scalability issues that have accumulated since the original RFCs (882/883) from the 1980s. It discusses real-world quirks and operational challenges of deploying and scaling DNS in modern high-load systems, focusing on protocol behavior, implementations and pitfalls operators should know.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00DNS introduction
- 3:57DNS infrastructure choices
- 10:48DNS load and importance
- 15:24Geographic balancing
- 19:20Security and reliability issues
- 25:52DNS provider selection
- 31:48Internet management and measurements
- 36:26Reasons not to host DNS
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