HACKER Q&A
📣 krn

Any DNS providers with anti-DDoS protection not using Cloudflare?


During the recent partial outage of Cloudflare's network[1] multiple other DNS providers stopped working, because they were all using Cloudflare's DNS Firewall[2].

The affected services included:

– DigitalOcean DNS

– Linode DNS

– DNSimple DNS

It would be good to know any DNS providers with anti-DDoS protection that won't go down with Cloudflare's network.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31820635

[2] https://www.cloudflare.com/dns/dns-firewall/

  👤 johnklos Accepted Answer ✓
I think most people are fine with recentralization because if everyone else is down, nobody can really blame them for being down.

If you're concerned about availability, you'd never run your servers on something that depends on one company. Even if you use a service that does depend on one company, you'd also want to run your own DNS services somewhere else. If you don't, then you don't really care about availability.

👤 sucuri2
Quite a few:

- AWS route53

- Google DNS

- Sucuri DNS

- https://noc.org DNS

- https://nsa1.com DNS

And probably many more.