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What Are TLD Name Servers, and What Role Do They Play?

What Are TLD Name Servers, and What Role Do They Play?

When you change your domain's nameservers at your registrar, nothing visible happens on your DNS host, and nothing changes on your website. Yet withi

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What Is DNS Caching, and How Does It Work?

What Is DNS Caching, and How Does It Work?

You update an A record, test the site, and it still loads the old server. A colleague on another network sees the new one. Ten minutes later you see

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What Is Negative Caching in DNS?

What Is Negative Caching in DNS?

Here's a scenario that confuses even experienced developers. You're setting up api.example.com. Before adding the record, you run a quick lookup to

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Why Does DNS Use Port 53, and When Does It Switch from UDP to TCP?

Why Does DNS Use Port 53, and When Does It Switch from UDP to TCP?

A firewall rule that allows "DNS" on UDP port 53 and nothing else looks perfectly reasonable — and it will work for months. Then one day DNSSEC-signe

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What Is EDNS, and Why Was It Introduced?

What Is EDNS, and Why Was It Introduced?

Run dig against almost any domain and you'll see a line you've probably skimmed past a hundred times: ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 1232. That

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What Is a Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN)?

What Is a Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN)?

You add a CNAME record pointing www to example.net, save it, and the site breaks. A lookup shows the record now points to `example.net.example.co

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