@jeromeza - I see an 18MS difference, are these on the same network? Possibly @Rallias is correct, without being able to test on my Mac at the moment. 4MS is really fast for a recursive DNS response,

I suspect (from speculation and an extremely small set of data) that OSx's build of bind uses the internal recursor rather than the DNS server itself.

From Google DNS

* We offer a Free 1GB cPanel Account with all Premium VPS order. Can be use for DNS, Email, Web. (Limit of 1 per account)

I guess this is what called anycast dns.

I've got a DNS server I setup and i'm confused as to whether it's allowing recursion or not (I obviously don't want it to be).

* Reverse DNS

Whatever, I was referring to webhosters advertising a Cloudflare'd DNS as DDoS protection. This can be misleading.

@patrick7: Yes, I know, working on that page right now, DNS still points to the wrong server. Service itself is up, just not the webpage.

Back to the whole centralisation vs decentralisation. Are you aware of alternatives? (I'm in the middle of hearing the DNS solution on that video)

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you can use this NATed public ip to set your DNS A record and the NAT server will redirect these request to your vps so you can host your website . (sorry for my english , I don't know whether you co

Please explain what you mean with "reverse proxy record". If you mean reverse DNS you can't set it on a NAT VPS (maybe on your local IP, but nobody will see it from outside..)

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I can (to a degree) understand the DDoS mitigation; I'm assuming that means switching DNS or something?

Anyone can tell me if me use postfix and dovecot but not have reverse dns set : i not will got mails? or not cant send? what will happen?

@Gunter: it could host sites with not-that-much traffic, be used for seedboxes (they even provide a template for that!), DNS servers, allow to experiment with redundancy, clustering and the like.

as I am aware of clancoms horrible support as well I tried them when they offered me a free livechat addon for whmcs with the whmcs license and hosting for $5 a month but after a few days of trying to

Softlayer phone support doesn't know what reverse DNS delegation means! Luckily 100TB does.

@4n0nx I am currently using pdnsd..