Authoritative Name Server Premier (ANSP) and Authoritative Name Server are Nominum’s high end software-only DNS authoritative name servers.  ANS leads the industry with 100% uptime and resilient, secure, high-performance authoritative DNS services.  

Completely integrated, automated, lifecycle management of DNSSEC transforms its deployment from a labor intensive, error prone exercise into a process that is as simple as managing unsigned DNS data.  Key generation, signing of data, loading signed zones, key rollover and sharing trust anchors are integrated in ANSP. Processes that were previously multi-step, manual operations, can be executed with one command that creates keys for signing, signs the data, and installs the protected file for use on the ANSP server.  Automation  ensures accuracy and reliability so that Internet resources are always available ,while reducing operational overhead.  

ANSP includes support for multi-mastering that allows two servers to act as masters for the same zone.  This eliminates single points of failure in the DNS, which is especially needed for Dynamic DNS (DDNS).  In addition ANSP includes support for Real Time Visibility (RTV) that collects, correlates, and aggregates DNS query data. The data can be logged for offline analysis or live query traffic can be analyzed.  Filters can be used to screen data for specific attributes of interest.

ANS Benefits Include:

• Simple, scalable, DNSSEC
  
• Efficient management of complex zone databases
  
• 100% availability
  
• Low latency query responses
  
• Simple drop and replace of existing software
  
• 10x performance of alternatives
  
• Massive scaling - 1Billion records
  

Additional Benefits of ANSP Include:

• Active-active configuration of master authoritative servers
  
• Detailed visibility into query data