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bruh21bruh21 Member, Host Rep

What do you use for your DNS? I just use my domain registrar's built in DNS, but I'm wondering if you all use anything else for performance reasons or whatever

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  • 1.1.1.1 from CloudFlare
    or AWS if i need something complicated

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  • skorupionskorupion Member, Host Rep

    I self-host to have more control.

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  • themewthemew Member

    Cloudflare and Hurricane both use anycast for fast resolving.

    Thanked by 1bruh21
  • ClouDNS.net

    Thanked by 2bruh21 CloudxtnyHost
  • JasonMJasonM Member

    I use dns from cloudflare, and cloudns. Also have premium dns from godaddy. Was using free dns from namecheap too. - all are good. Paid ones come with more features though.

  • PeterPPeterP Member, Host Rep

    Personally, I'm using Cloudflare's free DNS. Company-wise, it's Cloudflare's free DNS for forward-facing zones (domain names) and ClouDNS' DDoS-protected DNS for reverse-facing zones (reverse DNS for company-allocated public IP address space). Have had a good experience with the both of them and I don't see that changing anytime soon.

  • EvoxtEvoxt Member

    DNS hosting? I always go to cloudflare. In special cases where I need custom port where cloudflare doesn't support. Then I self host, pretty sure 99% of the people does that

  • amadex1337amadex1337 Member
    edited June 2021

    1.1.1.1 / 1.0.0.1 for my home network
    1.1.1.1 / 1.0.0.1 for my servers
    cloudflare.com name servers if I need free cdn
    google domains name servers if I don't need cdn

  • tjntjn Member

    ClouDNS.net +1

  • Cloudflare :)

  • skorupionskorupion Member, Host Rep

    @Evoxt said: Then I self host, pretty sure 99% of the people does that

    99% of people use their registrars DNS

  • MannDudeMannDude Host Rep, Veteran

    A mix of Hurricane Electric and our own anycast DNS cluster.

  • You can setup your own too especially if you need it to work properly with RBL.

  • raindog308raindog308 Administrator, Veteran

    @Evoxt said: Then I self host, pretty sure 99% of the people does that

    Skeptical that's true...

    But if you want to roll your own, I highly recommend NSD, which is very easy to setup and use. Just published a tutorial on YouTube on how to set it up.

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  • JarryJarry Member

    I recommend self-hosting. Most of us have 2, 3, 4...99 idling vps, so why not use them? Anyway, as soon as you need something more complicated than simple A/AAAA-record (DNSSEC, DKIM/DMARC, etc) you have to ask support and wait.

    With self-hosting dn-servers you have full controll, i.e. you can fine-tune TTL if you change records frequently, use multiple A/AAAA records for round-robin load ballancing, use dns for letsencrypt verification, etc. And finally, with setting up and administering your dn-server you learn something new!

  • @Jarry said: with setting up and administering your dn-server you learn something new!

    Already too much things I need to learn...

  • CloudxtnyHostCloudxtnyHost Member, Host Rep

    ClouDNS.net +2

  • pierrepierre Member

    1.1.1.1/CF for mainly everything (at home, server, and vps's)

    Used to use 8.8.8.8/Google, but the latency kept going higher than the others. 9.9.9.9/Quad9 has been getting better recently, need to give them a try.

  • xethostxethost Member, Patron Provider

    1.1.1.1 and 8.8.8.8

  • Cloudflare is good, HE.net is a good alternative as well. Google Cloud DNS is good if you use Google Domains as your registrar.

    I would switch to not using your registrar's nameservers for better performance and uptime as well as a general better interface for editing DNS records.

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