Split-Horizon DNS Checklist for School Recognition Display Content
A school’s lobby recognition display, athletic hall-of-fame kiosk, or hallway honor wall connects to a content platform over the school’s network. That connection starts with a DNS lookup: the display’s browser or application resolves the recognition platform’s hostname into an IP address before it can fetch athlete profiles, inductee records, award rosters, or media files. In most schools, that lookup travels from the kiosk to the school’s managed DNS resolver, then to the internet, and returns a public IP address — the same address anyone outside the school would get. That works for platforms that serve all clients from a single public endpoint.
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