
From HOSTS.TXT to Modern Internet Infrastructure | AXON Shield
The development of DNS demonstrates an impressive journey from its initial basic form into a modern distributed system which provides high resilience. The internet initially used a basic centralized text file named HOSTS.TXT for its operations. The rapid internet expansion made the initial text file system unworkable so developers created a new solution which could scale dynamically. The system evolves because organizations need better scalability and absolute reliability along with robust secu…