Do you offer recursive / resolver DNS service?

We do offer recursive / resolver DNS service, but only for companies who need to deploy it within their organization or for clients. We do not offer it generally speaking for single users.  Single users are encouraged to take a look at OpenDNS if they need secure options, or perhaps even just use Google public […]

Do you support DNSSEC?

Yes, Total Uptime Cloud DNS fully supports Domain Name Security Extensions (DNSSEC). You can find the full details on DNSSEC Implementation here. What is DNSSEC? DNSSEC (Domain Name Security Extensions) is an enhancement to standard DNS which has been around for a long time. It enhances DNS by creating a secure chain of trust and […]

DDoS Protection Tab

Not interested in reading the manual? We cover the essentials in a video at the bottom of this page! The denial-of-service or DDoS tab provides two primary functions. Front-end DDoS Statistics and mitigation, and Back-end denial-of-service mitigations. In the top half of the page are DDoS statistics. Here you can see detailed information about attacks […]

Top 6 Tools for DNS Troubleshooting

Looking for a handy online DNS Tool, try ours here! Troubleshooting never ends. Problems in network computing can happen at many different levels. One technology that every internet user depends on is DNS, which stands for domain name system. A domain name is an alphanumeric designation for an IP address. DNS servers are the databases […]

Resource Record Types

Total Uptime’s Cloud DNS Service supports 27 different DNS resource record types. That includes 26 standard record types and 1 special web-redirect type that we’ve created. Below is a comprehensive list of each record type which you can find in the Cloud DNS management interface. DNS SOA Record This is the “Start of Authority” resource […]

How does a DNS query work?

When you open your browser and type in “www.example.com”, or a DNS client needs to look up a name used in a program, it queries DNS servers to resolve the name. Each query message the client sends contains three pieces of information, specifying a question for the DNS server to answer: A specified DNS domain […]

Failover Design: DNS Failover vs. Cloud Failover

When implementing a failover solution, the most common questions we receive are: How can we architect a failover solution for our application? How quickly can we failover from the primary site to the secondary site? How quickly can it fail back when the primary comes back online? Is there a way to prevent automatic failback […]

A Primer on the Domain Name System (DNS)

In the early days of the Internet, humans and other computers located the few massive interconnected computers the same way: by their numeric Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. Soon, the impracticality of memorizing all these numbers became obvious and a rudimentary naming scheme was developed. A central repository of names and their associated IP addresses was […]