Well, HE.net is not the ultimate solution either. I actually migrated off HE and decided to run my own DNS back then, because of a multiple-hour outage that they had. OK, that was in 2013. Maybe they

AXFR transfer to HE.net works ok. After changes to zone is made and SOA serial is increased the command "pdns_control notify domain.com" sends udp NOTIFY packets to all slaves dns se

use HE with AXFR zone transfer from mine leading dns server and maybe I'll add 1 anycasted BuyVM's ip to this setup later.

I honestly doubt my ability to get better network uptime for my DNS by self-hosting, compared to CF.

Sounds like a good plan. Remember to block access to your primary NS to IPs other than HE (216.218.133.2). Good to do this in both firewall and in the DNS software (in bind, allow-transfer { 216.218

Yes, next step I'll try to setup this: https://blog.zswap.net/dns-slave-setup-with-hurricane-electric-free-dns/

The link https://my.vultr.com/dns/ was inaccessible during the CF outage and went up as soon as outage was over. Looks like they have CF somewhere in frontend or both of my providers have using CF dns

This is strange as they appear to host DNS servers on their own network. Did you investigate a bit to see if this was related to the outage at CF?

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Dynamic DNS might actually work.

No. Only dynamic DNS.

the page load is over 1 sec, mostly due to DNS. Adding a NS in Australia is not the answer, because clients pick a random one, so there's as much chance of someone in North America using the Austral

I do that with 4 servers where latency isn't a big deal. But if you want good lookup times worldwide, then anycast DNS is preferable.

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Can anyone confirm that https://dns.he.net/ and domains hosted there were working during the CF's outage? https://downdetector.com/status/he/ tells us it was ok.

try Godaddy dns, its quite stable.

Which domain registrars' control panels and dns hosting services were not affected by Cloudflare downtime?

https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/17/cloudflare-dns-goes-down-taking-a-large-piece-of-the-internet-with-it/

Reverse DNS capability

I’m aware how mitigation works, it was a cheap suggestion. Relying on the fact that any decent DNS provider could HA and swap, so you’ll have minimal outage, but it’s still going to be costly.