Anycast DNS

Anycast synchronizes a domain's name servers with a distributed cloud of geographically redundant and fault tolerant servers around the world, providing enhanced performance and resilience against DNS The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical distributed naming system for computers, services, or any resource connected to the Internet or a private network. It associates various information with domain names assigned to each of the participating entities. A Domain Name Service resolves queries for these names into IP addresses for the purpose of locating computer services and devices worldwide. By providing a worldwide, distributed keyword-based redirection service, the Domain Name System is an essential component of the functionality of the Internet.-based DDOS attacks.

Our Anycast DNS is designed in such a way that the Anycast name servers will be assigned to your domain name and service all DNS record requests for your domain. The source of the DNS records which Anycast uses will continue to be your existing name servers (which can be those of Webnames, or any other third party).

For more information about the features and benefits of this service, or to purchase Anycast DNS for your domain, please visit: https://www.webnames.ca/dns/anycast

Setup and Configuration

To configure and apply Anycast DNS to a domain name:

1. Go to https://www.webnames.ca/login.aspx and login using your Webnames.ca Username and Password.
2. Browse to Account > Domain List
3. Click on the domain in question, leading to Domain Management
4. Click on the Anycast DNS tab

Setup For Domain Names already utilizing Webnames DNS services

The setup of Anycast DNS is divided into three steps

1. Provision your DNS Zone into the Anycast network
2. Confirm zone synchronization between Webnames authoritative name server In computing, a name server is a computer server that hosts a network service for providing responses to queries against a directory service. It maps a human-recognizable identifier to a system-internal, often numeric, identification or addressing component. This service is performed by the server according to a network service protocol. and the Anycast service
3. Apply the Anycast name servers to your domain name

Setup For Domain Names utilizing non-Webnames DNS services

The setup of Anycast DNS is divided into three steps

1. Define the name server from which Anycast DNS will sync DNS records from (i.e. define the authoritative source of DNS records for your domain)
2. Configure a trust between authoritative source name server and the Anycast service so that DNS records can be exchanged and synchronized
3. Apply the Anycast name servers to your domain name

Step 1

Enter both the name and IP address An Internet Protocol address (IP address) is a numerical label assigned to each device (e.g., computer, printer) participating in a computer network that uses the Internet Protocol for communication. An IP address serves two principal functions: host or network interface identification and location addressing of the name server(s) you wish Anycast to slave to.

Click Apply

Step 2

Configure the name server(s) defined in Step 1 to allow AXFR/IXFR DNS zone transfer is a type of DNS transaction. Zone transfers may be performed using two methods, full AXFR and incremental IXFR. zone file transfers from the following IP addresses:

• 162.219.53.35 (IPv4) - 2620:10a:80d1:1053::135 (IPv6 IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) is the latest revision of the Internet Protocol (IP), the primary communications protocol upon which the entire Internet is built. It is intended to replace the older IPv4, which is still employed for the vast majority of Internet traffic.)
• 162.219.53.235 (IPv4) - 2620:10a:80d4:1053::135 (IPv6)
• 162.219.52.35 (IPv4) - 2620:10a:80d1:1053::235 (IPv6)
• 162.219.52.235 (IPv4) - 2620:10a:80d4:1053::235 (IPv6)

In addition, you must allow DNS queries from the following IP address so that the status of your zone can periodically be confirmed by the monitoring server:

• 162.219.53.178 (IPv4) - 2620:10a:80d4:1090::100 (IPv6).

Finally, adjust your SOA Expiry value accordingly. The SOA Expiry value needs to be set long enough to prevent Zone Expiration should an issue arise with the assigned primary name servers. We recommend that you use and expiry timer of at least two weeks (1209600).

Confirm that the page reports that a zone file transfer between your name server(s) and Anycast has been successful.

Step 3

Assign the Anycast name servers to your domain. Click Apply to complete the setup.

Anycast DNS will now handle all public DNS queries for your domain.