Running a high-availability hosted DNS Server Service is not a trivial task. DNS is vital to the operation and success of the Internet yet it is an often-overlooked component that is usually taken for granted. What seems so simple on the surface can create so many issues when it malfunctions. Using a Free DNS Service Most small […]
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 […]
You want to know what a DNS server is and what DNS does? Quite simply, DNS is what makes the Internet work. Seriously! Imagine going to Facebook by typing in the IP address in your browser. Obviously that’s not going to work. It’s not very memorable, and can you see people using IP addresses […]
We’re often asked how quickly an ‘A’ or ‘AAAA’ record controlled by a DNS Failover pool can update across the internet. TLDR: 2.5 minutes is about as fast as it can go. If you’re curious how we came up with this number, here’s the backstory on how it all works. DNS Failover update speed is […]
Our star developers spent the last couple months working hard to knock out a couple annoying bugs and adding new features. This is a fairly significant platform update that also improves platform reliability and stability too. We hope you like it! New Webhook Feature: We added an often requested feature called HTTP Webhooks that allows […]
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 […]
Yes. While NS records do support the wildcard character, an asterisk (*), it is important to be careful when using this character to avoid sending untended traffic to another name server. For example, if you create a pair of NS records for xyz.example.com to point to a name server ns1.example.net what you’ve essentially done is […]
Total Uptime’s DNS Failover automation is a powerful way of increasing availability for any type of web-based service or application that is accessible via multiple IP addresses. Some examples include: An application behind two or more different ISP links Two or more servers at the same or different sites Two or more cloud or hosting […]
In this release we addressed a number of pesky bugs and made a number of back-end improvements to ensure reliability. Below is a list of some of the more significant changes. Force Zone Transfer Button: Inside of secondary zones is a button to “Force Zone Transfer” that has been there for a number of years. […]
We recently added an easy-to-use implementation of DNSSEC in our UI. The currently deployed version in our UI makes it nearly impossible to misconfigure. Every time you make a change, it is queued for review by one of our NOC engineers to ensure that the requested actions will not impact any existing chain of trust. […]