NS1 Connect: Authoritative DNS Lab

This IBM Learning Labs course provides 90 days of access to the course material and uses a free trial for the lab environment. Access to the lab environment is governed by the terms and conditions of the free trial. 

Course requirement:

• You must sign up for an IBM free trial environment to complete the lab exercises. 

Each enterprise approaches Domain Name System (DNS) services from a different place. Wherever that is, IBM NS1 Connect can help by improving performance, lowering costs, and adding resilience with advanced traffic steering that circumnavigates outages and deprecated resources. In this lab, you take a look at the NS1 platform and see how NS1 addresses these business challenges and opportunities.

After completing this course, you will be able to:

• Explore query reporting, traffic mapping, and health monitoring on the NS1 dashboard.
• Manage users, teams, and API keys to control access to your environment.
• Demonstrate how NS1 secures the DNS configuration with multi-factor authentication and single sign-on.
• Explain NS1’s advanced DNS resource management and traffic steering to improve DNS performance and resilience for you and your customers.
• Describe how NS1 monitors DNS configurations and integrate with third-party providers.

Consultants, network administrators, and anyone who wants to explore authoritative DNS and traffic steering using NS1 Connect.