Cloudflare silently deleted my DNS records

Re:Cloudflare silently deleted my DNS records by PopeDotNinja on Monday February 24, 2020 @02:18PM (#22407367)

Hurricane Electric has a pretty solid free DNS offering. I've been using it for like 10 years.

https://dns.he.net/

I haven't needed to talk to them much, but one time I tried to add a .ninja domain, and there backend wouldn't handle it. I emailed them to report the problem at 4:49 p.m. I got an email at 7:09 p.m. the same day (2 hours 20 minutes later later) asking me to try adding it again. [1] When a free service fixes your problem in a few hours, they get +1 gold star from me.

[1] I just checked my email to look up the actual times. This was on Mar 15, 2017.

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Re:Cloudflare silently deleted my DNS records by jlgaddis on Monday February 24, 2020 @02:57PM (#22407772)

Also, HE DNS will "secondary" from your own server.

For example, you can run your own DNS server on a VPS or something, and HE will AXFR the zones from your VPS and serve them authoritatively.

This allows you to run a hidden master, for example, which I can imagine some HN folks being interested in.

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Re:Cloudflare silently deleted my DNS records by alwillis on Monday February 24, 2020 @08:41PM (#22410259)

Doing exactly this with HE. Running Knot DNS [1] on Digital Ocean.

[1]: https://www.knot-dns.cz/

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Re:Cloudflare silently deleted my DNS records by PopeDotNinja on Monday February 24, 2020 @05:04PM (#22408947)

I don't know what you just said, but it sounds awesome. I bookmarked this comment to review the next time I mess with DNS :)

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Re:Cloudflare silently deleted my DNS records by BenjiWiebe on Monday February 24, 2020 @02:53PM (#22407728)

+1 for Hurricane Electric. Right now I'm giving CloudFlare's DNS a try, but HE gave me solid service (including dynamic DNS) for years.

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