DNS Lookup:
Domain/IP Whois:
Ping:
Traceroute:
Welcome to Veritris
Have you ever wondered why DNS is so important? Or what would happen if it failed?
The Domain Name System is the system that translates Internet domain names into IP numbers. A "DNS Server" is a server that performs this kind of translation.
DNS is the critical service that holds the internet together. Web servers, email servers, FTP servers, media servers and any other internet-connected resource exist and are accessible because of DNS.
Each day millions of people around the world visit their favorite website or check their email by typing in the address (domain) for which they are trying to reach.
Each time this happens, a critical time-sensitive process begins behind the scenes.
A world without DNS?
If DNS did not exist or became unavailable the internet as we know today would stop. In essence, DNS is the first link in an entire sequence of internet connectivity.
It is because of this fact companies should consider redundant DNS and backup mail solutions more important than even their websites, yet many do not.
It has been estimated that over 94% of the internet including corporations do not have reliable DNS redundancy in place. In fact, considerably much more resources are spent on multiple webservers, databases, and clustering with little to sometimes no efficient DNS backup or recovery techniques in place.