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@faddat Don't have any experience with the GFW, but it kinda sounds like a DNS Proxy/DNS VPN type setup could work.

DNS can fail and when you have no backup DNS server things like that happen and now? You learn from mistakes... Hell even Cloudflare with their tons of servers goes down due to problems like the last

I'm just rather confused how when all of the Virtual Machines and host nodes were active during this period, the only thing that was down is the "convenient" DNS records we have set

Would not be surprised if our resident hackforums script kiddie decided to DDoS your DNS himself.

It wasn't an attack. It was a simple question which you dodged around. Why did it take 5 days for you to fix your dns if you do have internet?

* All of the customer services were online the entire time. Only OUR DNS was down. Therein, no actual downtime wass had, and people that had the IP addresses to the management console [ from their w

and that by default cPanel does place both DNS servers on the same server.

just dont blame cPanel, They have a quite robust mechanism to setup a dns cluster with their "cPanel-DNSOnly". You could even cluster with softlayer . vps.net dns back end or even w

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This has been sorted out however, and a secondary DNS server will be online soon to mitigate this from being an issue in the future.

* The DNS servers are not on the same host as customers, with OVH you can use all of the IP addresses between any of the host machines, even the private clouds. They use classless static routing (whi

* why is your dns server on the same host as customer VMs

Yes, the only thing that was ever down was the cPanel server; as someone managed to get the DNS server's IP addresses nullrouted. I have had this issue sorted out now, and will be adding a secondary

hm, dns isn't responding. let's do a +trace.

is one of the very few that still give dynamic dns and some other staff for free, the same time that a lot of isp's official routers are not support no-ip but has integration only for dyndns and some

I can do it for you no problem! 1gbps port unlimited bandwith database email and dns. Pm me if you want

I am pretty sure No-IP wasn't interested in helping Microsoft due to lack of manpower and (financial) gain in doing so. (It's after all microsoft's product. This could happen to any free dns service b

keycdn is great for low bandwidth sites, the thing I dont like from them is it takes 50~700 ms for dns queries for their zones.

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