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DNS Tunneling attack – What is it, and how to protect ourselves?

DNS, Protection

DNS Tunneling attack turns the Domain Name System (DNS), a highly trusted and widely used system on...
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Why does DNS use UDP?

DNS

If you have ever wondered why DNS primarily relies on UDP (User Datagram Protocol) instead of other transport protocols like TCP...
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What is a Point of Presence (PoP) and Why Does It Matter?

DDoS, Servers

Every time you visit a website, stream a video, or access an online service, your request travels through multiple network points before...
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TTL and how to check TTL

DNS

TTL – Time to live is a value that signifies how long should the data be kept before...
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What is a Recursive DNS server?

DNS

When you browse the internet, you don’t write IP addresses to go to the pages you want; you just write the domain. In the...
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DNS cache explained 

DNS, Servers

The DNS is a great technology that allows us to use the internet the way we currently know it. It resolves domain names to their IP...
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