The Domain Name System (DNS) is at the core of the engine that keeps the internet running. We have explained how DNS works and why it is critical to the functioning of the internet in our Synthetic Monitoring Guide. The DNS resolution relies on various components, such as the DNS…
Today’s Tip of the Day is the final of three focused on Domain Name System (DNS) monitoring. In the rest of the series, we looked at how digital experience monitoring (DEM) can (i) help ensure users are served by the correct DNS server to reduce latency and (ii) help to guard against DNS-related attacks. In today’s…
Today’s Tip of the Day is the second in a three-part series on Domain Name System (DNS) monitoring. In the first, we looked at how the application delivery chain works and the way in which many companies outsource their DNS to third parties with a global presence in order to reduce…
This Tip of the Day is the first in a three-part series on Domain Name System (DNS) monitoring. The Domain Name System is often described as “the phonebook of the Internet.” While humans access the Internet via domain names such as npr.org or bbc.com, web browsers interact via Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. DNS translates domain names to IP addresses so that…
This video demo shows how identify and troubleshoot DNS issues using Catchpoint’s Digital Experience Monitoring Platform.
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Recently we were working with one of our customers and saw some irregularity in the traceroute data using Catchpoint Network Insights. Although the traffic is destined to go to our client’s website, it was instead going to Twitter/Facebook IPs via their ASNs. We have seen this happen in the past…
Last week AWS experienced an eight-hour outage caused from a DDoS attack impacting the cloud provider’s Router 53 DNS web service. As discussed in a previous post, Catchpoint detected the incident five hours before AWS acknowledged the problem. This isn’t the first—nor will it be the last—time an AWS outage…
Cybersecurity has always been the Achilles heel of the digital world. Digital security protocols, firewalls, and advanced authentication methods have improved and tightened internet security, but even with all these measures in place, cyberattacks are inevitable. You can only mitigate the impact and prevent any major compromise before it turns…
As the very first interaction between an end user and a digital property, DNS resolution is arguably the single most important component of any web transaction. In this sense, fast DNS is just as important as fast content, and something that every single company must take into consideration when establishing their online…
