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CloudFlare offers CNAME option for paid customers. So you can use an enterprise DNS service and only point to CloudFlare via a CNAME record. When disasters lik

CloudFlare offers CNAME option for paid customers. So you can use an enterprise DNS service and only point to CloudFlare via a CNAME record. When disasters like this happen, a quick DNS change can be a life-saver.

foobar2k 14y ago
There's no such thing as a quick DNS change.
- zhoutong 14y ago
  My startup NameTerrific can support instantaneous DNS updates in a geo-redundant Anycast infrastructure. As long as your TTL is sufficiently low (<300), the impact is quite limited as propagation time is negligible at NameTerrific. EDIT: Sorry guys. We got some issues with a gem after installing the recently updated ruby2.0.0p0. The unicorn workers were timing out. TerrificDNS is completely unaffected and the site is already running again.
  - avargas 14y ago
    https://www.nameterrific.com/pricing https://www.nameterrific.com/pricing "We're sorry, but something went wrong."
  - rdl 14y ago
    If and only if the site's end users and their software fully respects TTL. A lot don't, especially shitty mobile networks and web browsers.
  - Uchikoma 14y ago
    From my experience with DNS for a large site over the last years, a lot of ISPs do not respect your TTL and have their own TTL (often 24h).
  - Uchikoma 14y ago
    Not the best advertising http://www.nameterrific.com http://www.nameterrific.com "502 Bad Gateway nginx/1.2.7"
    - zhoutong 14y ago
      It's up now. Please see parent for explanation. Sorry!
    - Nux 14y ago
      Hopefully the back-end is not running Ruby. ;-)
      - deleted 14y ago
        [deleted]
      - rdl 14y ago
        The back-end is AWS Route53, it seems.
        zhoutong 14y ago
        Well, we have already soft launched our own TerrificDNS Anycast and it has replaced the Route 53 solution. TerrificDNS platform is running on Redis + PowerDNS.
        Uchikoma 14y ago
        Terrific.
  - gtklocker 14y ago
    Nameterrific is down. https://www.nameterrific.com/ https://www.nameterrific.com/
  - sturadnidge 14y ago
    You should probably put the same amount of effort into your web hosting infrastructure http://imgur.com/ok5lfml http://imgur.com/ok5lfml
overshard 14y ago
Yep, this is definitely something I'll do in the future and I guess it was my fault for trusting a single service... even one that is designed around keep your site up/redundant.
earless1 14y ago
Yup, this CNAME service just allowed me to make a quick update to DNS and get us back up. We will probably need to automate this in the future.
thomseddon 14y ago
Would love some details on how to do this, I've been a (business) CF customer for a while now and have never seen this service and I haven't turned up anything googling/scouring their website for it just now. Details much appreciated! EDIT: Spoke too soon: https://support.cloudflare.com/entries/22054357-how-do-i-do-cname-setup https://support.cloudflare.com/entries/22054357-how-do-i-do-... shame it's so convoluted
- ksec 14y ago
  That is the first time i have heard this as well. Thanks for the Link.

foobar2k 14y ago

There's no such thing as a quick DNS change.

zhoutong 14y ago
My startup NameTerrific can support instantaneous DNS updates in a geo-redundant Anycast infrastructure. As long as your TTL is sufficiently low (<300), the impact is quite limited as propagation time is negligible at NameTerrific. EDIT: Sorry guys. We got some issues with a gem after installing the recently updated ruby2.0.0p0. The unicorn workers were timing out. TerrificDNS is completely unaffected and the site is already running again.
- avargas 14y ago
  https://www.nameterrific.com/pricing https://www.nameterrific.com/pricing "We're sorry, but something went wrong."
- rdl 14y ago
  If and only if the site's end users and their software fully respects TTL. A lot don't, especially shitty mobile networks and web browsers.
- Uchikoma 14y ago
  From my experience with DNS for a large site over the last years, a lot of ISPs do not respect your TTL and have their own TTL (often 24h).
- Uchikoma 14y ago
  Not the best advertising http://www.nameterrific.com http://www.nameterrific.com "502 Bad Gateway nginx/1.2.7"
  - zhoutong 14y ago
    It's up now. Please see parent for explanation. Sorry!
  - Nux 14y ago
    Hopefully the back-end is not running Ruby. ;-)
    - deleted 14y ago
      [deleted]
    - rdl 14y ago
      The back-end is AWS Route53, it seems.
      - zhoutong 14y ago
        Well, we have already soft launched our own TerrificDNS Anycast and it has replaced the Route 53 solution. TerrificDNS platform is running on Redis + PowerDNS.
        Uchikoma 14y ago
        Terrific.
- gtklocker 14y ago
  Nameterrific is down. https://www.nameterrific.com/ https://www.nameterrific.com/
- sturadnidge 14y ago
  You should probably put the same amount of effort into your web hosting infrastructure http://imgur.com/ok5lfml http://imgur.com/ok5lfml

overshard 14y ago

Yep, this is definitely something I'll do in the future and I guess it was my fault for trusting a single service... even one that is designed around keep your site up/redundant.

earless1 14y ago

Yup, this CNAME service just allowed me to make a quick update to DNS and get us back up. We will probably need to automate this in the future.

thomseddon 14y ago

Would love some details on how to do this, I've been a (business) CF customer for a while now and have never seen this service and I haven't turned up anything googling/scouring their website for it just now. Details much appreciated! EDIT: Spoke too soon: https://support.cloudflare.com/entries/22054357-how-do-i-do-cname-setup https://support.cloudflare.com/entries/22054357-how-do-i-do-... shame it's so convoluted

ksec 14y ago
That is the first time i have heard this as well. Thanks for the Link.