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How DNS Works
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Jan 22, 2023 9:15 PM

How DNS Works

by HubSite 365 about John Savill's [MVP]

Principal Cloud Solutions Architect

AdministratorAzureM365 Hot News

A look at something you've just used, DNS! I have manually updated the captions to be as accurate as possible. Enable the subtitles and from there you can tr

A look at something you've just used, DNS! I have manually updated the captions to be as accurate as possible. I have manually updated the captions to be as accurate as possible. Enable the subtitles and from there you can translate to your native language via the

In this Video

0:00 - Introduction

0:12 - Why we need DNS

2:07 - The structure of DNS hierarchy

6:15 - Recursive resolution

16:34 - Still need to use the name

18:55 - SNI and ClientHello

22:12 - Caching

25:05 - Cache poisoning

28:05 - Forwarding and summary

► Whiteboard:

https://github.com/johnthebrit/RandomStuff/raw/master/Whiteboards/


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