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mschae@discuss.mschae23.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

deciding whom to choose for nameservers

This is tangential to your actual question, but why not host your own? I’ve had good experiences with self-hosting an authoritative nameserver for my domains. I personally use BIND (named), but I know someone who does the same with nsd and that also works very well.

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user224@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

why not host your own

I’ll first have to research how, but at no point will I consider myself as reliable as some professional provider like Cloudflare.
On the other hand, Cloudflare is kind of becoming the internet with all the centralization. Imagine if Cloudflare and AWS completely went offline at the same time. The internet would be fairly quiet.

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- mschae@discuss.mschae23.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  That’s fair. Though you should consider that it’s really easy to set up secondary nameservers as a mirror (ns-global, for example, offers such a service). So your own reliability matters less in the end.
  
  On the other hand, Cloudflare is kind of becoming the internet with all the centralization.
  
  Yup. That’s the main reason I avoid using them.
  
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  - frongt@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    
    it’s really easy to set up secondary nameservers as a mirror
    
    You assume a resolver will actually proceed to the secondary ns and not just give up when the first one is down. There is a lot of badly-behaved software out there.
    
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    mschae@discuss.mschae23.de ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    They should fix their broken resolvers then, that’s not for me to work around. I don’t think it’s actually a big problem in practice though, because
    
    my primary nameserver is actually fairly reliable, and
    
    it looks like the nameservers in the NS query are in a randomized order (until the response is cached, of course)
    
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