Oracle Exam 1Z0-1067 Topic 8 Question 26 Discussion

The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Traffic Management Steering Policies service is a critical component of DNS. Traffic Management Steering Policies enables you to configure policies to serve intelligent responses to DNS queries, meaning different answers (endpoints) may be served for the query depending on the logic the customer defines in the policy. Traffic Management Steering Policies can account for health of answers to provide failover capabilities, provide the ability to load balance traffic across multiple resources, and account for the location where the query was initiated to provide a simple, flexible and powerful mechanism to efficiently steer DNS traffic.

WORLDWIDE GEOLOCATION TREATMENT

You can divide your global users into geographically defined regions (for example, state/province level in NA, country level for rest of world) and steer customers to specified resources based on their location. This helps to ensure global, high performing internet resolution, and supports functions such as ring fencing. For example, keeping traffic from China in China andblock trafficoutside of China into China.