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UltraDNS Server Problem Pulls Down Websites, Including Netflix, for 90 Minutes

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Re: UltraDNS Server Problem Pulls Down Websites, Including Netflix, for 90 Minutes

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Post by dholowiski »

fletchowns wrote: post #18

I suppose this was also the cause of the 90 minute Bitbucket outage today?

Surprisingly, no. Or at least they're not claiming so. They say it was a problem with a database server. http://status.bitbucket.org/

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Post by fletchowns »

dholowiski wrote: post #21
fletchowns wrote: post #18

I suppose this was also the cause of the 90 minute Bitbucket outage today?

Surprisingly, no. Or at least they're not claiming so. They say it was a problem with a database server. http://status.bitbucket.org/

That was a different "Git and Mercurial over HTTPS slow or not responding" outage from yesterday (or "02:00 and 03:00 UTC on 15 October 2015")

The more recent one started @ Oct 15, 20:19 UTC, they don't seem to have root cause on the status page for it yet.

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Post by semiquaver »

jread wrote: post #16
edgan wrote: post #5

I am surprised that Netflix uses UltraDNS when they use AWS and they could be using Route53.

Amazon.com uses UltraDNS and Dyn

Confirmed, this issue more or less took down Amazon's Merchant Web Services API today.

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Post by mbubb »

tshtf wrote: post #17

Serious question here: Do people really spend $90/month for 2M DNS queries? https://www.neustar.biz/services/dns-services/managed-dns-pa...

More money and more queries-per-month then that at nsone.net. They are very good. The api is especially nice for setting up failover and geo pools.

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Post by mbubb »

bwblabs wrote: post #20
tshtf wrote: post #17

Serious question here: Do people really spend $90/month for 2M DNS queries? https://www.neustar.biz/services/dns-services/managed-dns-pa...

And that's even without 'DNSSEC and IPv6 support', 'Regional Routing' and 'DNS Load Balancing (where available)', that's only available for 'UltraDNS Enterprise'... (I'm running my own (Power)DNS, after EveryDNS was bought by DYN and they didn't grandfathered old plans, charging per domain, which made it extremely pricey)

Yeah - i looked at DYN and they are expensive. The "Internet Intelligence" stuff looks interesting but that is an add on.

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Post by voltagex_ »

mbubb wrote: post #25
bwblabs wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And that's even without 'DNSSEC and IPv6 support', 'Regional Routing' and 'DNS Load Balancing (where available)', that's only available for 'UltraDNS Enterprise'... (I'm running my own (Power)DNS, after EveryDNS was bought by DYN and they didn't grandfathered old plans, charging per domain, which made it extremely pricey)

Yeah - i looked at DYN and they are expensive. The "Internet Intelligence" stuff looks interesting but that is an add on.

I need some dynamic DNS for my VMs, I'm getting away with Avahi/mDNS right now but I need to set up an Active Directory lab. Do you have any recommendations for dynamic DNS? Bonus points if it's BIND9 compatible.

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Post by manigandham »

tshtf wrote: post #17

Serious question here: Do people really spend $90/month for 2M DNS queries? https://www.neustar.biz/services/dns-services/managed-dns-pa...

9/10 times it wasn't technical people who made the decision to use services like these.

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Post by jlgaddis »

voltagex_ wrote: post #27
mbubb wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah - i looked at DYN and they are expensive. The "Internet Intelligence" stuff looks interesting but that is an add on.

I need some dynamic DNS for my VMs, I'm getting away with Avahi/mDNS right now but I need to set up an Active Directory lab. Do you have any recommendations for dynamic DNS? Bonus points if it's BIND9 compatible.

Put AD-joined hosts in a subdomain, e.g. subdomain.example.com. AD DCs are authoritative for the subdomain. Your public facing / authoritative nameservers for example.com should be listed (publicly) as the only NS's for subdomain.example.com and should slave it from your DCs.
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