Oracle DNS is a mixed bag if you're account gets allocated a nameservers on ex-Dyn ASN anycast routing is fine, but if the assigned nameserver is on Oracle ASN the routing is crap I've found multiple

HE works well as a secondary. Supports DNSSEC signed on the primary. I use HE as a secondary for many domains and personally I like it.

regular unicast IPs. I'm handling that in PowerDNS using the also-notify metadata for the zone.

That sounds good, will have to check again. SOA serials are incremented, will have to check if it is the primary dns provider that is sending out the NOTIFYs too late.

I had been using dnsmadeeasy as secondary dns, but I'm not really convinced so far about the update speed when you do updates via NOTIFY + AXFR requests, so I'll be watching this thread closely as I h

More like "Why doesn't ClouDNS maintain their network properly"... Vultr has no trouble getting it right: https://dnstools.ws/ping/ns1.vultr.com/

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@ruben's https://ifog.ch/de/web/dns maybe? I'm not sure about that part, though:

I'm currently self-hosting my own DNS servers using three VPSes on BuyVM's anycast network, plus two VPS in Australia. I host some sites that primarily serve Australians, so for those domains I'm usin

That's still a DNS problem, you disagree? I just wonder why not diagnose DNS directly, as opposed to via ping, which only gets delayed due to its DNS queries as a side-effect.

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And stop using ping of unrelated host to diagnose DNS issues ffs. "Time until first ping" is exactly where it waits for DNS to resolve (or time out) the reverse DNS record. If there'

2. Oracle Free Tier: Wireguard Server (full tunnel) + Alt. CA + Alt. DNS + Nginx Load Balancer

I've tried many panels and plesk is just plain confusing and their DNS manager is out of my head. If I see a web hosting service using plesk, I becomes a deal breaker for me because I don't understand

config at all. 9.9.9.9 is a very reliable dns resolver we're using in our corporate network for ages now.

note: cloudflare proxy is disabled (dns only mode)

(i want use this only for DNS = load will be most time nearly to idling VPS, but i hate lazy VPSes and lazy loading software/control panels and waiting for them at work due from lack of CPU power)

It really depends on the use case which is a better deal. For me I wanted a extra gDNSd server and a 40GB live backup for server configs and some data. This is a secondary backup. Both are light use

Install unbound and use 127.0.0.1 as your DNS. Sure it is a networking hiccup at OVH (probably some UDP DDoS filter is poorly tuned), but to say that a server is "not usable" because

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