DNS Infrastructure & Naming Conventions
Announcing Virtual DNS: DDoS Mitigation and Global Distribution for DNS Traffic

Announcing Virtual DNS: DDoS Mitigation and Global Distribution for DNS Traffic

3/10/2015 · Dani Grant

What this post added

Introduced Virtual DNS, an authoritative DNS proxy service that leverages Cloudflare's global DNS and proxying infrastructure to provide DDoS mitigation and global distribution for any organization's DNS nameservers. This service caches DNS responses at the edge, reducing load on origin nameservers, and blocks malicious traffic before it reaches the origin. It also masks the origin IP addresses of the provider's nameservers.

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