Why the Internet Needs Millions of DNS Servers

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Everyone knows that DNS maps domain names to IP addresses, but what's not understood is just how much you rely on it every time you make a request on the internet.

DNS was created in the 1980s, so it's amazing it still works reliably today to lookup any of 350 million domain names. It's unique design uses millions of "nameservers" across the internet, making DNS so fast and resilient that most users don't know it's there.

Developers who understand the elaborate, but misunderstood, domain name query process have the edge in designing better software, troubleshooting, and staying up-to-date as the internet evolves.

In this video you'll learn step-by-step how DNS looks up a domain name, see some surprising quirks of it's decades old design, and importantly learn tools you can use yourself to interact with DNS.

0:00 More than just converting names to IP addresses
1:20 A distributed database built in the 80s
5:08 The elaborate hunt for a domain name
8:15 How DNS was hacked for the 21st century

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Wow, great video, it just got recommended to me by YouTube! Subbed :)

effeKtSVK
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DNS was created in the 1980s - good to know, but someone says that in 1983

rediffusion
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Self-hosting a DNS server is the best idea anyone could have.

Own your data, own your devices, own yourself.

Splarkszter
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Ooh so I am a top 1% developer? I have managed DNS servers for the Dutch Broadcasting association with all the different channel domains.
We even hosted a replica of the .nl top level domain on an tiny SGI O2.

CallousCoder
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