4 hours makes DNS failover pointless. (Image)

I am in the proccess of getting DNS Failover running, I have the two servers up and ready just got to change the nameservers.

You can control the TTL if you run your own DNS or use a third party DNS (of course not all ISPs respect the TTLs set but most do). I set my TTL to 5 minutes and use automatic DNS failover with DNSMad

Once a server goes down, wouldn't it take ~24hours or whatever the TTL is for the DNS of the domain to propagate to the new IP? How do you make it faster? Am I missing something?

Yeah my bad @stancatswon, It was on the dns records.

I think he's referring to some funky DNS crap that was going on earlier. @MikHo, were you viewing the mobile site by chance?

The problem I have with someone else's web interface (for a service like DNS) is that I have to spend time to understand it, and maybe tweak it. Then there's a new version. (Image)

Everything is at dnsmadeeasy now, and I'm just starting to plan to move DNS in-house. It's early days. I might use powerdns. I might use nsd. Might use something else. Currently looking at options....

Anyone know of a PHP or CGI for managing DNS zones?

with the panel and resolv.conf but the provided DNS addresses didn't work. I could only ping IPs not domain names. I gave up.

Ramhost hands down. Used him for a looooong time as a DNS server. Works well.

What registrar do you recommend? Both of the ones listed on dns.be for my country don't seem to be offering .be domains any more.

I recently tested one of Russel Fosters new ventures techievps.com in the USA (will use as a DNS server probably) but tested as a VPN, This did allow CBS to stream if that helps anyone else looking fo

I predict deadpool in under 45 days. Protected whois. Website & DNS hosted on linodes.

free DNS for 5 domains

I used TinyDNS, a really simple and lightweight dns server. I used a own openvz-container for it and it only needed about 8mb RAM!

A great free dns service even if you don't want use their webiste protection/acceleration

At this time, I am using PowerDNS with PowerAdmin, but it is heavier on resources than I would like. What is the best lightweight solution for this? Can I get my zones out of PowerAdmin? I am familiar

One of the LEB VPS's that I use for DNS was terminated on the day that the invoice became due. VPS was terminated, invoice cancelled. Not even a suspension.

Most of the wireless networks I use use OpenDNS for their DNS and we all know how much I complain about censorship that I keep hitting,