FAQs

ManageEngine CloudDNS FAQs

Why do I need a DNS management software like ManageEngine CloudDNS?

Offloading DNS services to CloudDNS guarantees that your DNS servers can handle all queries, good or bad, even if your site is swamped with requests due to an unforeseen incident. This ensures that all of your important web, application, and database services are available and safe while also attaining high scale. You do not need to purchase, manage, or support any equipment because CloudDNS's services readily get integrated with your existing infrastructure. Continuous proactive monitoring of servers' health, automatic load balancing, and zone importing all assist to prevent downtime caused by DNS problems. Organizations like yours may tailor their applications to provide global apps quickly, with great availability and security.

Why do I need DNS monitoring?

DNS monitoring is so essential that without the monitors polling your servers time-to-time it becomes impossible to proactively detect when your DNS servers health go down, which may result in a bad user experience and inaccessibility of your company's websites, services, and servers to your customers. That is why CloudDNS chose to integrate with competent DNS monitoring tools to detect and resolve DNS issues before they affect your mission-critical business applications.

Does ManageEngine CloudDNS support the retention of geo-filters and monitors during Zone transfers?

ManageEngine CloudDNS's advanced configurations like Geo targeting filters, failover mappings, and monitoring check configurations are discarded during zone transfers.