3rd party DNS server (namecheap is free)

I use Cloudflare for DNS on all my lowendboxes.

Why not setup a DNS resolver yourself? I use pdns-recursor.

I don't think Microsoft offers their own public DNS, Jeffrey. I must agree, for a lightweight protection app, MS Security seems to work well. (I do not use Windows much however).

The service I'm using is NortonDNS.com (My country blocked Facebook and Blogger by DNS, they even blocked Google DNS, OpenDNS..., so there is only Norton DNS that works!)

I've visited BuyVM website today and here is what my brower (using NortonDNS) said:

I only use cloudflare for dns with "passthrough"(no caching). With caching, I was getting >11 secs respond time and pingdom constantly reports it as down.

An extra $5/month for reverse DNS. Holy crap!

Problem with using SRV is that every time a customer orders you have to update the DNS and they have DNS cache so you can't really do instant-setup.

Your zone file seems fine for me. I haven't worked too much with DNS stuff, but maybe some dumb points due to my lack of knowdlege to try.

@rds100 - I agree, that's why we choose a little bit different architecture for our DNS service

Hmm, it can be very nice for me as another DNS server location in Europe with this RAM and HDD allocation (Image)

@stylexnetworks for DNS hosting for my customers.:p

We do provide AnyCAST DNS, however is there a reason you need the specific IP?

3 google-public-dns-b.google.com (8.8.4.4) 2.155 ms 2.163 ms 2.162 ms

3 google-public-dns-b.google.com (8.8.4.4) 2.155 ms 2.163 ms 2.162 ms

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This is interesting. Ping to 8.8.8.8 is ~100ms, but to 8.8.4.4 is 2ms. Does this mean the closest google dns server would be in the same datacenter?

I'd probably grab a few at that price to add to my cPanel DNS cluster

SSL has been implemented on the original domain and anycast DNS is now here! (Image)