Tuesday, April 11, 2006

importance of DNS

For webmasters, DNS knowledge (and its implementation in BIND or other software) is not something which generally comes to the forefront. There are postmasters and those responsible for internet connectivity in companies or organizations large enough to have a dedicated Internet connections. They need to know about DNS in some detail.

The diagnostics at dnsreport are great. They are a useful webmaster tool. Use it the way a company looks at an external auditor. You expect the IT staff to comply with industry best practices. The auditor simply confirms it. However, the auditor doesn't know everything about the business. Sometimes a risk is aceptable, though the auditor red flags it.

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Effectively, unless you run your name server, this function is done by the hosting provider. This kind of check ensures you get solid value for the hosting dollar.

With hosting being so competitive, there's a lot of variation of expertise brought to system adminstration. Anything to let us "size up" the quality of a hosting provider is a welcome tool.

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It's hard to overstate DNS's importance to website owners. Without a working authoritative name service for a domain, no requests arrive to your website. This means no mail arrives either. But, this piece of infrastructure gets little attention, probably because it usually works.

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