SixscapeDNS has an easy-to-use advanced management features, layered security through an integrated firewall, hardened OS, and intrusion detection system, comprehensive API methods for easy integration with various backend services, IPv6- Ready Gold Certification from the IPv6 Forum, and industry leading performance reaching up to 200,000 authoritative and more than 50,000 recursive queries per second. SixscapeDNS features S-Shield Intrusion Detection System that includes an option specifying a DNS Resource Record type when setting rule parameters. To aid in advanced troubleshooting and network diagnostics, SixscapeDNS now provides a Restricted UNIX Shell with common tools like tepdump, dig, nslookup, ping, ping6, traceroute, traceroute6, telnet, ssh, scp, and other UNIX commands preferred by most administrators.