For the past couple months I kept having problems loading websites fully but just kind of dealt with it. I would get the errors in the title of the post, but after a refresh or two the site would load. This morning however, almost nothing would load and programs could not connect to the internet. … Read More “DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_BAD_CONFIG” »

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So I was looking into some old information and noticed that a draft to expand reserved tld list (https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-chapin-rfc2606bis-00.html) But it was left alone until it expired. What would have been the issues that would have caused the draft to be disregarded and never adopted? submitted by /u/zackyd665 [link] [comments] Powered by WPeMatico

I have only a handful of domains over at Namecheap. Originally I was using their hosted DNS as well. Several months ago, the MX records completely disappeared from one of my domains, which I only noticed after failing to receive email. I had been happy with Namecheap up to that point, so didn’t think much … Read More “Warning: Disappearing DNS and DS records at Namecheap” »

Short story: some bad guys set dns alias to our cname, now other dumb guys yell at us like “remove it immediately, how dare you to support piracy!”. Right now we just say them that we can’t do anything, but one day probably some extra dumb guy will appear and will not understand that… So … Read More “Any suggestions what to do with abusing aliases” »

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I need some help as this is out of my area of expertise. I had a domain registered with NameCheap. It expired so I moved it to my AWS account. Now I can manage everything in Route 53. I have it configured just like a similar domain I have but when I go to my … Read More “Help Request: Moved DNS but it didnt move.” »

So, I have been trying some DNS benchmarking and I’m a bit confused by the following: When I run dig ns sb. @a.root-servers.net I see 4 tld name servers: ns.cocca.fr ns.coccaregistry.org pch.nic.sb sns-pb.isc.org But when I run dig sb. +nssearch I only get the SOA (and query time, which I’m interested in) forns.cocca.fr and pch.nic.sb … Read More “Why doesn’t “dig sb. +nssearch” try all .sb TLD name servers?” »

I succeeded in setting up my authoritative nameservers. All seems to be working well. The secondary servers (those that are public facing) are 4, in 4 different geographic locations and with 4 different providers. Really cool. Now, I realize that 3 of these are not DDoS protected. How much a must is DDoS protection when … Read More “Is hosting authoritative nameservers with DDoS protection a must?” »