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Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

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Post by freehunter »

larrys wrote: post #18
drivebyacct2 wrote: post #5

If you are using GoDaddy for anything, you deserve what you get. If you are using GoDaddy for not just registration but also for DNS, I would just fix it as soon as possible and not tell anyone. Also, do backups, use good password practices, and everything else that everyone knows and the lazy will still fail to do. Oh, 20 seconds in and a downvote. I can take them, I didn't ignore the last 8 problems GoDaddy has bee…

"Oh, 20 seconds in and a downvote." I didn't downvote you. But you might have gotten downvoted because you said "If you are using GoDaddy for anything, you deserve what you get." w/o giving links or further information. The things you are thinking might not be obvious to everyone.

GoDaddy might not have been in the news for a few months, but their issues are well documented. If I had been the one to post I would have added links like you suggested, but when choosing someone to do business with it's prudent to find out if they're a shady company. A Google search will present their issues right up front.

Citing sources for your opinion is good practice, I agree, but so is independent due diligence.

Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

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Post by stickfigure »

amix wrote: post #16

Does anybody have a guide on how to migrate away from GoDaddy without downtime? And what would you recommend instead? We currently host a bunch of domains and use their DNS servers.

CloudFlare offers free DNS services with a great UI. It also makes it trivial to enable/disable their accelerator/security proxy services.

Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

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Post by bwhalley »

Bill_Dimm wrote: post #35

I love their latest tweet (1:35pm Eastern): Status Alert: Hey, all. We're aware of the trouble people are having with our site. We're working on it. That understates things by several orders of magnitude. It's not just their site that is down, it's their domain name servers, so most websites that bought their domain from GoDaddy are unreachable (unless you are working off of cached domain data).

Only if they bought from GoDaddy & also host their DNS there. If you host your DNS elsewhere (eg Dreamhost) your site is still up right now.

Most people who buy from GoDaddy probably host their DNS there as well though.

Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

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Post by evan_ »

dollar wrote: post #19

Interesting whois for GoDaddy. :) GODADDY.COM.VATAXIDERMIST.COM GODADDY.COM.THEYOUNGCONS.COM GODADDY.COM.THEVILLAGEAT63RDSTREET.COM GODADDY.COM.THEFOREXTHIEF.COM GODADDY.COM.THECOTTONWIFE.COM GODADDY.COM.TEST.CHUMCHUM.NET GODADDY.COM.STAGEDOORPRODUCTIONS.COM GODADDY.COM.SKATEONGRANDROLLERRINK.COM GODADDY.COM.SHOPCOULSDON.COM GODADDY.COM.SHIRLEEMCGARRY.COM GODADDY.COM.SETHPAPA.COM GODADDY.COM.SANGRAALBODYWORK.COM GODA…

Notice how "godaddy.com" appears at the beginning of each of those and not the end? Does that tell you anything?

Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

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Post by fhars »

semenko wrote: post #11

Thread on Outages: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.operators.isotf.outages/... The GoDaddy status page proudly announces "No issues to report": http://support.godaddy.com/system-alerts/ During last week's GoDaddy mail outage, they had no status info posted, even hours after reports on NANOG/Outages: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.operators.isotf.outages/...

The status page is actually unreachable, as the domain name does not resolve :-).

Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

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Post by Uchikoma »

amix wrote: post #16

Does anybody have a guide on how to migrate away from GoDaddy without downtime? And what would you recommend instead? We currently host a bunch of domains and use their DNS servers.

I do use a domain registrar for domain registering, and a DNS hoster for DNS hosting. From my - limited - experience it's not a good idea to have this with one service provider (registrars have not 100% uptime, DNS hosters are limited with domains or expensive)

For DNS hosting I'm currently happy with

http://www.dnsmadeeasy.com/

Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

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Post by larrys »

[deleted] wrote: post #32
amix wrote: post #16

Does anybody have a guide on how to migrate away from GoDaddy without downtime? And what would you recommend instead? We currently host a bunch of domains and use their DNS servers.

[deleted]

" I would've thought you could simply set up your various DNS records in advance with the new service you use, and then switch the nameservers in the GoDaddy control panel."

Yes, see my comment.

"does anyone have any experience of using them?"

I don't but it wouldn't be a bad idea to setup other servers (as secondaries) at another provider. The only downside to this is that you are then susceptible to anything that happens at the extra provider (not if they don't answer or are down, but if your dns gets hacked there.) Keeping my previous statement in mind, if you are picking a reliable dns vendor I would say it probably pays to setup secondaries elsewhere for extra redundancy. It's not that expensive to do.

Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

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Post by datasage »

amix wrote: post #16

Does anybody have a guide on how to migrate away from GoDaddy without downtime? And what would you recommend instead? We currently host a bunch of domains and use their DNS servers.

Moving DNS servers can usually be done with no downtime. All you need to do is copy your current dns records to a new provider and then change the name servers. Keep your old DNS configuration up at least for a few days.

Gradually clients will switch over to the new DNS servers, but as long as both servers resolve to the same IP you should be fine.

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