Everything you need to know about DNS

Happy New Year everyone! We had very active meetup sessions in 2015. Big thanks to all of you! Looking forward to more interesting topics and active discussions throughout 2016.

Time for our first meetup this year. We are planning to explore Domain Name System (DNS) web service from Amazon for this January edition.

Agenda

• DNS for Fun and Profit.

Every organization which has used AWS infrastructure has used route53 at some or the other point.

Have you ever asked yourself:

• What goes on behind that UI?

• Why are there so many type of records?

• What is their significance?

• Did you know that you can do much more with DNS that just lookups?

Topics covered:

• DNS concepts

• Common types of DNS records.

• Let's dig DNS - few scenarios- Usage of TTL and other few important properties of DNS setup.-

• Types of DNS configurations- Applied use cases for example how TXT records, how it can be used to exploit the inherent power of DNS. For example using DKIM, SPF, DNSBLS records.

• Simple use case to show the power of DNS.

Speaker:

Pradeep Aradhya (https://in.linkedin.com/in/paradhya)

Hemant Soni (https://www.linkedin.com/in/sonihemant1)

• DNS On Cloud

• Introduction to DNS in general & Route53.

• Route 53 Public vs Private DNS.

• General features.

• Zone Apex: CNAME vs Alias record.

• Weighted Round Robin, Latency Based Routing, Geo DNS.

• DNS failover, Health Checks and monitoring.

• Amazon ELB Integration.

• Domain Registration.

Speakers:

Habeeb Rahman (https://in.linkedin.com/in/habeebr)

Jeevan Dongre (https://in.linkedin.com/in/jeevandongre)

• DNS as Service Discovery

Description:

DNS is an excellent distributed key-value store guaranteed to be in sync with infrastructure . It can be a natural Service Discovery platform. This talk is an exploratory proposal on the possibilities for using DNS for this purpose, as well as the pros & cons of such an approach

Speaker:

Aaditya Sood (https://in.linkedin.com/in/aadis)