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Re:DDOS on Namecheap Free DNS and Default DNS V2 by kelton5020 on Thursday February 20, 2014 @12:26PM (#7272136)
Was going to switch to route 53 while you guys were down and switch back, but the page says it'll take a day...Might as well just wait at that point. I know it's panic mode over there, but some kind of failover record would be awesome for when this happens in the future(or an option for one).
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Re:DDOS on Namecheap Free DNS and Default DNS V2 by irontoby on Thursday February 20, 2014 @12:45PM (#7272309)
Everything related to DNS says it'll take a day but that's "worst case"... I've successfully transferred DNS for 5 Namecheap-registered domains to Route 53 since this all started a couple hours ago, and they're now up & running smoothly.

Their "update DNS server" page was acting a bit wonky, kept saying some of my nameservers were invalid when they weren't, but I eventually got them all switched.

This isn't a dig against Namecheap, it sounds like this attack is pretty bad, but for important domains Route53 just seems like a much better setup (geographically dispersed, different nameservers for each hosted zone, etc).

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Re:DDOS on Namecheap Free DNS and Default DNS V2 by kelton5020 on Thursday February 20, 2014 @12:48PM (#7272337)
Yeah, Route53 isn't as feature rich though. Also I have the same problem, keeps giving me errors about bad nameservers. I guess I'll keep trying.
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Re:DDOS on Namecheap Free DNS and Default DNS V2 by colmmacc on Thursday February 20, 2014 @04:55PM (#7273917)
Hi, I work on Route 53, can you clarify; are you seeing a problem from your registrar when you try to move to Route 53? We're also always keen to hear about features customers would like.
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Re:DDOS on Namecheap Free DNS and Default DNS V2 by rdl on Thursday February 20, 2014 @05:11PM (#7274037)
Secondary DNS from a normal bind nameserver.
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Re:DDOS on Namecheap Free DNS and Default DNS V2 by agwa on Thursday February 20, 2014 @05:24PM (#7274100)
I second this. I'll add that Route 53 would need to respond to notifies for this to be useful.
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Re:DDOS on Namecheap Free DNS and Default DNS V2 by colmmacc on Thursday February 20, 2014 @06:41PM (#7274458)
It's definitely on our list, but in the meantime there is https://code.google.com/p/route53d/ which will let you translate an AXFR/IXFR from a bind server directly into Route 53 authenticated calls.
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