AWS DNS

AWS DNS

• DNS is a discovery service
• Translate machine into human and vice versa
• wwww.amazon.com => 104.98.34.131
• it’s huge and has to be distributed
• 4294967296 IPv4

  DNS Zone

• Webserver resolve
• DNS client -> your laptop
• Resolver => software on your device, or a server which queries DNS on your behalf
• Zone => A part of the DNS database
• Zonefile => physical database for a zone
• Nameserver => where zonfiles are hosted

• DNS ROOT & ROOT ZONE

  DNS Root

• IANA: The global coordination of the DNS Root, IP addressing, and other Internet protocol resources is performed as the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) functions.
• Root Zone Database: The Root Zone Database represents the delegation details of top-level domains, including gTLDs such as .com, and country-code TLDs such as .uk. As the manager of the DNS root zone, we are responsible for coordinating these delegations in accordance with our policies and procedures.
• root zone , root IANA
• DNS resolution : Walking the tree
• Root Hints => config points at the root servers IPs and addresses
• Root Server => hosts the DNS root zone
• Root Zone => points at TLD authoritative servers
• gTLD => generic top level domain (.com .org)
• ccTLD => country code top level domain (.uk .eu)

  Route53

  1. Register Domain
  2. Host Zones.. managed nameservers
  3. Global servicce … single database
  4. Globally resilient
• create zonefile also allocated service
• Hosted on four managed name servers
• can be public
• or private .. linked to VPC(s)
• …stores records (recordsets)