Try http://dns.he.net/ for DNS.

Same here, thinking of transfering to another registrar or change DNS server.

Is there a way to easily setup backup DNS servers?

(DNS servers responded) ERROR: One or more of your nameservers did not respond:

@Daniel clearing my DNS cache sadly did not solve the problem

Clear your DNS cache.

I don't trust any DNS management company who refuses to tell you what their monthly query limit is.

Then a bunch of packages I have no need for DNS, apache, fonts, DHCP, Samba, mail (bit of an iffy thing to do) etc. I don't think all of these are in the default debian install, so not really sure wh

their container was down, when it was just the DNS.

http://bgp.he.net/dns/alchymic.net#_whois

I'm bumping this thread because my service with Charter went out tonight for about an hour. When it came back on, I noticed an IPv6 address assigned to me, but no IPv6 DNS services. It turns out they

"All Comcast customers have automatically migrated to our DNSSEC validating servers. If for some reason you have manually configured your DNS IP addresses, we recommend you switch back to rec

Security Best Practice for DNS Servers

to problems. I mean starting the web server, and DNS if used, both probably won't cause a problem, also Mysql server in most cases (given replication is the main trouble source) , so that can be incl

A local script that runs at fixed time interval with a cron job, and it check user's critical services (ie Apache/Nginx, Mysql server, DNS..) , and only send an email notification in the case it finds

* CPU exhaustion is as difficult as bandwidth exhaustion (i.e., DNS packets are small but millions of them can overwhelm the CPU of the servers handling them even if overall bandwidth is small)

Are you trying to write a script for dynamic dns?

Ahm, you can't route PI at more than one location at the same time - This is NOT anycast space.

Another question which comes to my mind is that if I need IPs from two different C classes (for DNS usage) is it possible to assign PI with two partial classes?

I am also running iftop to see if maybe I have weird connections but it is clean as it gets, a few DNS queries now and again and my ssh connection of course, that is it.