I’m setting up a master-slave bare metal web server combo. Two separate data centers. In lieu of an Anycast setup, I will use self-hosted DNS with geo-based load balancing and failover. All authoritative DNS requests go to the master server, which unloads some traffic onto the slave based on the client’s location. Slave also acts … Read More “NSD vs PowerDNS vs other for lowest latency load balancing” »

Not sure if this is the right sub, but.. Are there any other services like NextDNS who offer security protecting like Typosquatting, DNS Rebinding, Cryptojacking, DGA protection etc? I see Cloudflare Sec(1.1.1.2) and Quad9, but as far as I read, they are mostly about malware domains, and less of DNS protection. Any suggestions please? submitted … Read More “NextDNS alternatives for security features?” »

I have not been able to find any information on doing such a thing, not on this website or the web itself (I suppose because it is considered pointless). So I will be first to ask does anyone with good experience in Bind know if it is possible to set up Bind as a root … Read More “Setting Bind as a root DNS server and changing root hints” »

Hello, I have recently bought a domain for personal e-mail use and I’ve been wondering if I understand things correctly. The domain that I bought uses my domain registrar’s DNS servers. I have set the appropriate DNS MX/SPF records that point to my email service provider’s server and everything works as expected. My first question … Read More “DNS servers outage” »

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Wondering if anyone has thoughts or preferences on pointing an alias record for the apex of a domain to the www record or pointing to the AWS record directly. Domain.com IN ALIAS www.domain.com Or Domain.com IN ALIAS AWSloadbalancer Www.domain.com always points to AWSloadbalancer submitted by /u/tonydick642 [link] [comments] Powered by WPeMatico

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Hi. I have a customer who is looking to automatically forward from their gmail to their custom email address which is part of a domain hosted in gridhost. They are also looking to be able to send direct emails to their gridhost hosted email address. Can anyone advise if there are any custom DNS records … Read More “Forwarding and sending from gmail to a custom domain in gridhost” »

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Hi all, silly question I think but first time I encountered this. When ever I’ve created a new site , With a domain I own (google domains), I just update the A record and point to the the servers IP (digital ocean). bada bing, bada boom. One of our clients has their own domain registrar. … Read More “Question on Domain and Nameserver on different hosts” »