It's all good for now, I need to keep it where it is for the moment as I need to keep my DNS stable as I rebuild another box. May take you up on that in a few weeks.

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Just hosting php sites on CMS systems. Just moved all my domains to domain monster and using their DNS will switch all to cloudflare

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My preference is to host dns, web, email all separately and independently.

I use cloudflare, even if sometimes is having hickups. Bit, generally, it works well, offers DDoS protection (even a small one) and use it also for it DNS capabilities

A new @INIZ vps has joined the fold for backup DNS & MX. Did ask for Amsterdam, but got NY.....

What we need is a decentralized distributed alternative to DNS.

What worries me more is not even that the domain was delegated (at least DNS-wise) to the plaintiff, but the case proves once more how vulnerable US administered top-level domains are. They simply wen

Currently not, router is set to google's, only my pc was set to my provider's dns

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Switched my DNS to Google's, seems like my povider's dns is doing something...

DNS request timed out.

That's actually a valid ebay IP, which means your DNS is working properly. Must be the browser / OS.

www.paypal.com is an alias for www.paypal.com.akadns.net.

I'm sorry for the people who had legit services running with the dynamic DNS domains.

Distributed DNS Amplification Attack

what No-IP lets go on for a while (e.g. OpenDNS in 2013 and Cisco earlier this year).

Why not also run something else there? What about a website/blog, proxy, mail, DNS, XMPP, IRC bouncer. If those are running elsewhere, then just cancel some VPSes, consolidate to this larger one, and

What's next, they will have a court injunction forbidding the use of DNS altogether, because sometimes DNS can be used to resolve hostnames of illegal websites?