"ApplianSys responded within a day, and we shortly scheduled a meeting to discuss the need further"
Matthew Parris, GE Appliances, USA "The biggest positives are the ease of use and simplicity compared to Windows"
Derek Brown, Director Of IT, Rochester Hills Public Library, MI, USA "The DNSBOXes basically sit there and do their job as expected, we have very little interaction with them"
Andy Brennan, Technical Operations Team Leader, The Guinness Partnership, UK "DNSBOX passed stringent architectural and security reviews and was enhanced to perfectly fit our complex client data centre environment"
Ben Livson, Senior Project Manager at Westpac Bank (IBM) Australia "Our time spent administering DNS has dropped to virtually nothing. We can quickly set up domains or make changes to the master..."
Matt Niswonger, Techician at UltraTech Resources, USA

Hardened Operating System for Security and Reliability

DNSBOX-hardwareDNSBOX’s security hardened Linux based operating system (OS) is a custom-built appliance ‘distribution’, developed by ApplianSys to maximise security and reliability. The OS has been stripped clean and locked down:

  • Programs, services and files found on a standard Linux distribution that are not required for a DDI appliance are removed. This makes DNSBOX more secure and boot significantly faster than a standard Linux server.
  • The appliance is protected by a fully configurable on-box firewall: ports are only opened in the firewall as needed when services are enabled. All other traffic is dropped.
  • DNSBOX uses a read-only compressed file-system. This is best practice for appliances, being extremely solid and reliable. The fact that core operating system files are maintained read-only adds an extra security layer and avoids accidental damage from user errors.

The OS has a small footprint: once booted, it is retained in RAM, making it very fast.

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Because DNSBOX is versatile and scalable, our customers around the world come in all shapes and sizes. Some want to simplify, control and protect their DDI services, others just want to solve a specific DNS or DHCP headache.

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