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Mind you, 5 years ago, I was crazy enough to write an authoritative DNS system in PHP.

I noticed that Google's DNS is having issues in Seattle, everything seems to be routing to California. Used to have 2-3 ms ping, now it's 50ms.

the resolv.conf with empty values or their old DNS they aren't up anymore?

For some reason, I've had to add level3's DNS nameservers to the config on majority of my boxes for the last few weeks, I'm not sure why.. otherwise the server isn't resolving anything.

I've been with CVPS for two years. Their uptime wasn't great, but the price was right and the sites I was hosting weren't critical. Their support for minor things was fine. However, I was also a vi

It's quite easy to bypass any of OVH's protection. If you are using the more common amplification methods (DNS, NTP) then you'll be fine from outside DDOS attacks, but last I heard OVH still had a ver

Just received the following email from GestionDBI ( @davidgestiondbi ). I'm not affiliated with them in any way. Hopefully they don't mind this being posted (some of their previous offers have been t…

backend IP even if I use your protected IP in my DNS settings. But it can also be done in other ways, one ways is by putting it inside [img*] tags on forums.

Been having issues with Google DNS as well. They've either rate limited some of our more popular servers or they're just having issues. It's been happening the past 72 hours.

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Again. You can't compare cached vs uncached response times when you compare DNS A vs DNS B.

For the CDN , we are yet to deploy a customer facing website. We are working for the last 4 months on the the admin panel and dns configuration stuff. If you want to know the pops then we have Close t

Yes, it binds to 127.0.0.1 and I'm the only user on the server. They did back off when I said my "malicious script" was simply doing DNS lookups, I offered them the source but was ju

You said that using your own DNS would always be faster and that's certainly not true. For a low volume of queries, it's actually the opposite.

True, and I used this box pretty much 24/7 it was my primary DNS server..

@Abdullah, the reason why I changed to the DDoS Protected IP as main is because people easily can find the backend IP. By simply using iplogger.org and place it inside [img*] tags, this will show the

So where to start, I was hosting a closed recursive DNS server, straight away upon installing the OS I noticed a huge amount of random traffic hitting the server, unusual so I left it for a few weeks

http://www.tummy.com/articles/famous-dns-server/ ?

And yes I compared it with my local ISP's and other DNS services