367.35 Mbit/s 94.231 ms Germany, Berlin (DNS:NET) 170.12 Mbit/s 321.47 Mbit/s 116.198 ms Spain, Madrid (MasMovil) 17.24 Mbit/s 276.84 Mbit/s 114.667 ms Italy, Rome (Unidat

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Looking around a bit, I found people trying to sell everything from websites that aren't even configured with the proper DNS records, to simple Shopify stores and click farms. Suffice to say, it's any

This is why you should either buy IP (as in, get the range assigned to you by RIPE) or use a DNS name.

Yep. With Rage4 you can announce anycast ip to your own servers (Chicago,Frankfurt,Singapore for example) but it will be more expensive than BuyVM, especially when traffic increase. But for dns usage

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Since you are using Anycast, you don't have to rely much on DNS except for the case where you want to route specifically or different IP or those nodes which aren't supported on anycast.

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I do prefer some features in DA, especially their DNS.

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I was tested similar setup last summer and the main headache was the regional black holes if node went down. You simply cannot stop announcing those anycast ips for that unlucky region. The LUX,NYC an

If you use the anycast IP and a node goes down you won't have any way to route around it as the anycast routing is outside of your control. The budget way to do it is using a geo routing DNS with heal

* Should I roll a DNS server (I dont think I am at all qualified to do that) or should I use a RageDNS/Route53/Other Off the shelf option? If other, please post suggestions.

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False. DNS records can convey port number. It's called SRV record.

Sorry, no. Actually my ideas are largely about counter balancing or repairing rather arbitrary design decisions (e.g. DNS A only (no 'P') records) and lack of proper thinking (back then) and sheer pol

Hetzner claimed when I asked that you can completely block udp traffic on the server using their firewall, keeping that in mind you can disable udp and use cloudflare for your dns or an external dns

And there is simply not even a need, let alone urgency. For one there are hundreds of millions of IP4s wasted (as I elaborated recently), plus simply adding 'AP' records for everything except DNS woul

* Free reverse DNS management