dns

If you have multiple DNS entries for the same host, spread on different zones on Route53, resolutions only consider the zone that maches with the highest number of DNS levels.

For instance, …

Some learnings from the webinar I attended yesterday:

FQDN, PQDN, hostnames and root zones

You can tell the DNS resolver to not traverse the search path if you explicitly put a full stop …

On Route53 you can configure record sets with associated weights as A records.

weighted a records

To test that the above weights translate in the right resolutions, we need to start from the …