We've recently switched over to the vanilla OnApp control panel; it's much simpler, and gives you all the fun features including the free anycast DNS for all your domain names.

Just ordered an SSL for it - should be active in the next few minutes along with anycast DNS (Image)

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@ErawanArifNugroho: it was originally my remote desktop, but now its part of my DNS cluster.

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Lazyness to do DNS stuff. Not my favorite activity

@yomero why not get multiple DNS+local DNS as a backup?

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Sad, I got a diffrence story, I switched to ClouDNS because HE DNS was down for about 2 days (Image)

I use Google DNS (oh the irony...). Mediacom only captures info and does annoying search redirects for customers using their own DNS.

And you should look into what Mediacom does with your personal information and DNS queries.

Yes i using their services. so far so good. have nice feature dns branding and they have API too

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If you're on Android, this can help you ;-)

@djvdorp I can't remember too much, but you use it to tunnel into a DNS server which should be unblocked by any captive portal.

2. Get the IP of a webpage by pinging it. The pings will timeout, but the DNS will give you the corresponding IP address for the domain you are trying to ping.

@ynzheng You're the second person that's been having that issue, are you using Google DNS by chance?

to limit UDP flows, so when the ddos arrived dns communications (and other UDP activity) stopped working.

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