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On 16 August 2013, every Google service went down for five minutes; that is from 22:52 to 22:57 UTC. The outage caused internet traffic to drop forty percent worldwide. [9] Between 23:51 and 23:52 UTC, 50–70% of requests to Google received errors. It has been estimated that the blackout could cost Google around £330,000. [9]
Google Public DNS is a Domain Name System (DNS) service offered to Internet users worldwide by Google. It functions as a recursive name server . Google Public DNS was announced on December 3, 2009, [ 1 ] in an effort described as "making the web faster and more secure."
Cloudflare could not reach the origin server; for example, if the DNS records for the origin server are incorrect or missing. 524 A Timeout Occurred Cloudflare was able to complete a TCP connection to the origin server, but did not receive a timely HTTP response. 525 SSL Handshake Failed
A public recursive name server (also called public DNS resolver) is a name server service that networked computers may use to query the Domain Name System (DNS), the decentralized Internet naming system, in place of (or in addition to) name servers operated by the local Internet service provider (ISP) to which the devices are connected.
DNS hijacking, DNS poisoning, or DNS redirection is the practice of subverting the resolution of Domain Name System (DNS) queries. [1] This can be achieved by malware that overrides a computer's TCP/IP configuration to point at a rogue DNS server under the control of an attacker, or through modifying the behaviour of a trusted DNS server so that it does not comply with internet standards.
dig is a network administration command-line tool for querying the Domain Name System (DNS).. dig is useful for network troubleshooting and for educational purposes. [2] It can operate based on command line option and flag arguments, or in batch mode by reading requests from an operating system file.
For example, to do a reverse lookup of the IP address 8.8.4.4 the PTR record for the domain name 4.4.8.8.in-addr.arpa would be looked up, and found to point to dns.google. If the A record for dns.google in turn pointed back to 8.8.4.4 then it would be said to be forward-confirmed.
A DNS sinkhole, also known as a sinkhole server, Internet sinkhole, or Blackhole DNS [1] is a Domain Name System (DNS) server that has been configured to hand out non-routable addresses for a certain set of domain names. Computers that use the sinkhole fail to access the real site. [2]