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Best Practices – DNS

The Domain Name System (DNS) is used to translate human-readable website names (google.com) to the IP addresses (216.58.192.228) used to route data packets to the proper destinations. Typical business networks also have DNS servers internally to handle access to resources using hostnames or aliases. The DNS server is an extremely important component to a stable […]

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Using FortiGate as a Local DNS Server

Very common scenario – Branch office with no local server uses site-to-site VPN to a corporate server infrastructure. Many things are commonly controlled centrally in the data center and rely on a stable VPN connection: Domain Controllers for authentication Domain Controllers for DNS Centralized DHCP Wireless LAN Controller for AP management File servers Line of […]

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