dns

In the last post, we learned how to manage incoming traffic to your server using a reverse proxy. But how does that traffic reach your server in the first place? I made some opaque references to DNS records, but otherwise skipped over the concept. We’re going to get into it now. We have to nerd out a bit first, though. What is TCP/IP? The most common transport protocol on the Internet is TCP (Transmission Control Protocol), delivered over a network protocol called IP (Internet Protocol). [Read More]