S4 Episode 4: Michael Kaczmarek Former VP Products @ Neustar on the Domain Name System

When we think about the components that go together to make the internet work we probably think of browsers and IP addresses but there is one critical component that brings it together - the Domain Name System or DNS. It's the reason behind when you type cnn.com you end up on the right website. The design of DNS is more than 30 years old, but still is a critical point of the internet today. In October 2021, a misconfiguration error caused Facebook to disappear from the internet for nearly 7...