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DNS failure

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DNS failure

The inability of a DNS server to convert a domain name to an IP address in a TCP/IP network. A DNS failure may occur within a company's private network or within the Internet. See DNS, DNS server and Internet domain name.



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The third factor that can increase the risk of DNS failure is architectural flaws.
In a number of cases, including a sluggish email server, an intermittent DNS failure, and an endpoint hijacked for spamming, we've already seen our problem identification cycles shrink by at least 33 percent.
Almost right away, my team could see the sources of multiple complex application responsiveness issues, which included a sluggish email server, an intermittent DNS failure, and an endpoint hijacked for spamming.
 
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