Geo DNS

chip

Hi all,

I'm looking for a Geo DNs service .... I want to have multiple A records and serve the closest one to the visitor ..... unless anyone knows a better way of doing it?

Thanks in advance for your help

Chip

speedypage

BunnyDNS.

https://bunny.net/dns/

kait

Anycast is a little more reliable than GeoDNS but if you want it you can try out https://www.cloudns.net/

dbContext

If you're up for hosting your own infrastructure, this is hands down the best way of doing it:

https://github.com/abh/geodns

I've used it in many production environments in the past, and works very well.

It's even better if you build this upon an Anycast Network with a few PoPs so you get reduced RTT + closest PoP for the A record resolution.

treesmokah

https://gcore.com/dns - their free plan is very generous, been using it for some time now - AAA+++ service and support even tho I never paid them anything.

TrK

+1 for Gcore guys, their services are top notch!

Swiftnode

I'll vouch for ClouDNS.

Neoon

@dbContext said:
If you're up for hosting your own infrastructure, this is hands down the best way of doing it:

https://github.com/abh/geodns

I've used it in many production environments in the past, and works very well.

It's even better if you build this upon an Anycast Network with a few PoPs so you get reduced RTT + closest PoP for the A record resolution.

I made that thing crash multiple times, so nah.
So I ended up using https://github.com/gdnsd/gdnsd instead

dusst

speedypage said:
BunnyDNS.

+1

AXYZE

I'm suprised no one mentioned AWS Route53.
Its very reliable and dirt chip compared to big boy competitors (like Cloudflare).

$0.5 for domain. No extra cost for subdomains, no extra cost for more IP/origins.

$0.70 per 1 milion GeoDNS requests
$0.60 per 1 milion latency-based routing (which can work way better than GeoDNS).

If you want to get service from big provider that is proven for being reliable then its superb deal.

Either way - Get a look at latency-based DNS and performance&uptime in less connected countries. Lower-end provider tend to cut corners on this.

madarie

How about dns.he.net ?

Neoon

@AXYZE said:
Either way - Get a look at latency-based DNS and performance&uptime in less connected countries. Lower-end provider tend to cut corners on this.

Fuck yea, latency based dns is LIIIIIT.
Done it myself, backed by Anycast in case of no latency data.

The results where pretty awesome, even had good latency to China from Russia.
Not so fun part, is actually getting the latency data.

The raw data took me 22 hours ish, to ping the entire internet, to figure which IP's are actually pingable or worth analyzing.

Then the actual database build, 3-4 hours.
Making it in nearly real time, would be even more awesome but not easy.