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DNS

McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

DNS

(1)

DNS

(2)

Distributed Name Service. See DECdns.

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Secure64 DNS Authority is a DNS authoritative server that provides the highest levels of security, availability and resiliency under attack without the cost and complexity of conventional solutions.

DNSSEC or DNS Security Extensions provides a level of additional security where the web browser can check to make sure the DNS information is correct and was not modified.

"Enterprises today fall prey to DNS threats due to their increasing sophistication and frequency.

Such dynamic change requires a DNS platform that supports high API call rates and fast change propagation, neither of which can be facilitated by traditional DNS systems.

"A vast proportion of security incidents occur via email or the web, and DNS requests make up a large portion of the associated web activity.

Lowyat.net said some website with the .my domain name may still accessible due to cached information in DNS resolvers globally, but said this will only last until the expiry of the caches.

ClouDNS monitoring nodes check the customer's services primary IP address every minute, and the DNS Failover keeps the websites and services online in the event of a system or network outage.

David Williamson, CEO of EfficientIP summarized the research, saying, "Worryingly, the frequency and financial consequences of DNS attacks have risen and businesses are late in implementing purpose-built security solutions to prevent, detect and mitigate attacks.

With above literature support, the present study was conducted to evaluate the rhinomanometrical and clinicoradiological differences in DNS.

In [4], dynamic load balancing method using dynamic DNS update and round-robin mechanism is proposed.

Nominum(TM), the DNS-based security and services innovation provider, has announced that QTNet, a subsidiary of Kyushu Electric Power company in Fukuoka, Japan, has selected the company's DNS solutions to significantly improve the security and performance of its broadband network, the company said.