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1. third party zone transfers 2. Anycast DNS 3. Use more than one provider. 4. warm spares that are not in delegation until needed.


Yup, we're switching to multiple providers. The fact that there were already multiple geographically redundant IPs should have averted most issues, but someone made a highly-coordinated attack on the provider at all their IPs.

We learn and move on. I wonder how many other startups are going as far as using DNS from multiple providers? I still see many startups using Go Daddy for their DNS... :/




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