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DNS Security 147 · Network Automation 81 · IP Address Management 113 · DDI 155 articles
- DNS Security Threat detection, exfiltration control and policy enforced at the resolver.
- Network Automation APIs, infrastructure as code, and the source of truth automation runs against.
- IP Address Management Address planning, reclamation and live inventory across sites and clouds.
- DDI DNS, DHCP and IPAM operated as one system rather than three.
Start here
Three articles that answer the questions readers arrive with most often: how to drive SOLIDserver from code, and how to plan DNS security against a published standard.
Getting started with the SOLIDserver REST API
Authenticate against the API and make your first record change from a script, so provisioning stops waiting on a console.
The SOLIDserver Python library
Work with subnets, addresses and DNS records from Python instead of raw HTTP calls, and fold SOLIDserver into the tooling your team already runs.
NIST’s DNS security roadmap for the enterprise
Read the NIST guidance as a sequence of decisions you can take to a security review, rather than as a document to summarise later.
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More than 400 articles, across 43 pages of the current archive.
Modern DNS architecture: foundations
How to separate authoritative from recursive DNS, tier your resolvers and add Anycast so a hybrid multicloud estate fails over without anyone touching it.
Modern DNS architecture: design and operations
Where the foundations stop: DNS traffic steering, multi-vendor control, Network Source of Truth automation, security and observability in one operating model.
Network governance in SOLIDserver 9.1
What SOLIDserver 9.1 adds: Google Cloud DNS alongside AWS and Azure, edge DHCP on FortiGate, Proxmox discovery, and reconciliation of discovered networks against IPAM.
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