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The 44 th DNS-OARC Workshop is a two-day event that took place in Atlanta, Georgia on 6-7 February 2025. With over 100 people in attendance, there were some engaging presentations, followed by detailed Q&A, plenty of networking opportunities and a Mentor-Mentee program. ...
Why have we increased the number of DNS Resource Record types that we support ? We are constantly looking to improve our product and as part of that we listen to you, our customers, the market and global organizations, such as the IETF , that develop and...
When I started working as a network engineer, I learned the problems of asymmetric routing, mainly with firewalls as they tend not to like stateless connections. I thought this was a relative infrequent event, however talking with several customers (most of them on the financial services sector)...
IBM NS1 Connect has been honoured with the Best Hosting Software award in the 2025 G2 Best Software Awards (LINK). Awarded based on verified user feedback, this win reflects the trust that our customers place in IBM NS1 Connect to power their critical infrastructure and drive their...
Why Traditional Network Monitoring is No Longer Enough Let’s be honest—enterprise networks today are vastly different from what they were a decade ago. Once upon a time, IT teams could focus purely on uptime, connectivity, and infrastructure health. But fast forward to today, and the...
Introduction In the world of network management, Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is the industry standard method used to allow the network management practitioner to ascertain the status of network devices, links, and components that comprise their network. There are different...
Introduction Device “metadata” is useful descriptive information that you can associate with a device that makes managing devices easier. SNMP provides us with some basic metadata in the “system” branch of the MIB-II SNMP tree – sysName, sysDescription, sysContact. That’s great, but when...
Introduction In modern IT environments, managing network configurations efficiently and securely is crucial for network reliability, disaster recovery, and troubleshooting. Leveraging network automation tools like IBM Rapid Network Automation (RNA) allows organizations to automate the backup...
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“It’s always DNS” may be a meme-level joke among network and operations teams, but that doesn’t make it any less true . When it comes to business-critical applications, nothing’s more important than monitoring the DNS that delivers those applications to your users . When...
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Steering DNS Towards a Sustainable Future In today's internet-facing application landscape, every click, stream, and download rely on a successful Domain Name System (DNS) lookup, the unsung hero (and phonebook/Google Maps!) of the internet. At the end of every DNS lookup is an IP address...