If you haven’t considered how risky it is to rely on the Internet to carry your mission-critical customer and employee digital experiences, then the month of June 2019 alone can serve as a great learning opportunity, with three distinct and far-reaching examples of just how fragile the Internet is. On June 2nd, we saw a major Google outage that lasted for four…
DNS Flag Day is here and with it comes new changes that could impact your domain’s availability. What do you need to know and how can you quickly identify its impacts on you and your users? Read on for our quick guide to what it’s all about and how to…
Quad9 has deployed its public DNS resolver solution at nearly 150 locations worldwide, in 84 nations. With such a widely-distributed set of servers and services, having adequate visibility into performance behaviors is a critical and difficult task when validating operational metrics and alerting on out-of-normal conditions. Both our core DNS…
Public cloud, SaaS, hybrid and SD-WAN adoption dramatically accelerated last year. This year, enterprises will see the impact of this adoption on their operations, as they become more dependent on the Internet and learn to manage more services beyond their direct control. Here are five trends we expect to see…
On the morning of December 27th, ThousandEyes monitors picked up a major service outage on the CenturyLink network impacting AS 209. A quick scan of social media revealed that users all across the US were reporting issues with not just DIA services but also critical services like E911 and traditional…
As the first step that must take place before connecting to a website, the Domain Name System (DNS) is an important lever to improve performance, as well as security. Many enterprises choose to run and manage their own recursive resolver for internal users, as this limits the sharing of data…