I dabble with DNS for work, and I’m frequently checking if CNAMEs are properly configured. CNAMEs are Canonical NAMEs, kind of like nicknames, that indicate that one domain name is a nickname for another domain name.

Overall, A and MX queries are successfully resolved most frequently, while AAAA and PTR manifest lower success rates. Specifically, the failure rate of AAAA queries is surprisingly over 64.2% — two out of three AAAA queries failed.

Growth in hyperscaler data centers and processor-intensive enterprise workloads, such as high-performance computing (HPC) and AI, is set to drive broadscale adoption of SmartNICs.