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 OCI DNS Service
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 Objectives
• After completing this lesson, you should be able to:
– Describe the OCI DNS Services available with Oracle Cloud
Infrastructure
– Configure DNS for a Tenancy

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 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure – DNS
• Highly scalable, global anycast Domain Name System (DNS) network that assures high site
availability and low latency
• Customers can manage DNS records - domain names can be either cloud or non-cloud
resources.
Oracle OCI DNS service is used when:
• Domains and Zones need to be exposed via the internet for DNS resolution
• Domains and Zones can reside in both Enterprise on premise and OCI environments
• DNS traffic needs to be intelligently handled across multiple resources

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 Capabilities of OCI DNS
The following functions are
available:
• Create and manage zones
• Create and manage records
• Import/upload zone files.
• Zone Transfer
• Save and Publish changes
• View all zones
• Query Counts- Total and per
Zone

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DNS Record types supported by OCI DNS
Currently, OCI DNS supports the following DNS records:
• A (Address Record)
• AAAA (IPv6 Address Record)
• CNAME (Canonical Name Record)
• NS (Name Server record)
• MX (Mail Exchange Record)
• PTR (Pointer Record)
• SOA (Start of Authority Record)
• SRV (Service Locator)
• TXT (Text Record)

OCI DNS also supports an ALIAS record type which is specific to OCI DNS. It can be used to map
to various OCI (Compute, Network, Database or Storage), third party or private assets. The
ALIAS record acts similar to a CNAME record but the difference being they can be at the 'apex'
record of a Zone and is not visible to external resolvers.

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 Dyn DNS  OCI DNS Integration

Integrated Dyn's Global Authoritative DNS network into the OCI environment
• Identity – customers can use Oracle credentials (OCID)
• integration for metering/billing
• Limit Service integration
• OCI Console integration Dyn Data Centers OCI Regions

Core DNS Console UI

(Where we process
queries) Identity

Billing/Metering

Limits

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 Using OCI DNS
OCI DNS is available in the OCI
Console under the "Networking"
tab
This will bring the user to the
Managed DNS – Zones Screen
From here the user can create
Zones
to see that the service is working

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 Adding a Zone

From the Managed DNS –

Zones page:
• Click “Add Zone”
• Select Method type of
“Manual”
• Enter a “Zone Name”
• i.e. SKUtest.net
• Select Zone Type of
“Primary”
• Click “Add Zone”
Zone is created and can be
verified from the Managed
DNS – Zones page

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 View/Add Records
From the Managed DNS – Zones page:

• Select a zone to view record details

for that zone
• Zone details will show the list of
records for that zone
• Select Add Record to add new
record
• ”Click “Publish Changes” to update
Zone with new record details.

Default NS and SOA records are

automatically generated when a Zone
is created, so no new records need to
be added to generate query data

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 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure DNS –
Private Pool and Vanity Nameserver
• Private Pool allows enterprises to host their domain names and DNS zones
under a dedicated IP pool to segregate from those of other customers in order to
reduce the risk of external issues affecting their websites.
– Example: If multiple customers are in the same pool and one customer’s Zones come under a
DDoS attack, the other customers in the pool may have their DNS performance impacted until the
DDoS is resolved.
• Vanity Nameserver allows enterprises to rename OCI Nameservers with their
own branding
– By default all OCI customers will be hosted on the OCI nameservers. Using standard tools, users
can determine that the customer’s assets are hosted by OCI DNS.
– Customers that are concerned about their brand can rebrand the nameservers
– Example:
• Default naming: ns1.pxx.dns.oraclecloud.net
• Vanity naming: ns1.pxx.vanityname.net

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 Benefits of OCI DNS
Some of the key benefits include:
• DNS Network operating for over 10+ years, leveraged by thousands of
customers, large and small, Enterprise, Business and Web properties
• Support for OCI, other Cloud provider endpoints (AWS, Azure) and private
assets, including Cloud, CDNs and Data Centers
• Consistently lowest query latency performance
• Industry leading propagation time to ensure fast response to DNS changes
• Support for both Primary and Secondary DNS services, unlike solutions
from many Cloud Providers
• Industry’s most accurate geolocation data set, created specifically for steering
internet traffic
• DDoS protection built-in
• Most standards-compliant DNS platform
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 Summary
• In this lesson, you should have learned the following:
– Learned about OCI DNS Service
– Learned how to configure a OCI DNS Zone

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 Q&A

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