
Just One POST: Enabling Declarative DNS with F5 and the NGINX JavaScript Module
Just One POST: Enabling Declarative DNS with F5 and the NGINX JavaScript Module In the 1990 movie The Hunt for Red October, Sean Connery plays Marko Ramius, captain of the Soviet Union’s newest nuclear submarine, who intends to defect to the US and bring the sub with him. CIA analyst Jack Ryan, played by a young Alec Baldwin, intuits Ramius’s motive and has to convince the US Navy of his theory to prevent a violent confrontation between the superpowers. To prove his point, Ryan first needs to talk to Ramius, and suspense ratchets up as Ryan spends an inordinate amount of time trying to locate him. On the face of it, Ryan’s search is like that of a browser client trying to find a website on the Internet – except that websites register their locations in the Domain Name System (DNS), making [ more… ]