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  • Choosing your own domain name services

    ON SECURITY

    Susan Bradley

    By Susan Bradley

    There is a long-standing joke in enterprise technology: “It’s always DNS.”

    That’s because if something isn’t working, checking your domain name services to make sure they are set up and are working properly is a first step in diagnosing the problem. Misconfiguration has been the cause of many major outages — it’s not unheard of for incorrect DNS settings to take down entire firms or websites.

    Even for consumers, bad DNS settings can prevent access to the Internet.

    Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (22.02.0, 2025-01-13).