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We're kinda tied into DNSimple since we use an ALIAS record for our bare/naked/root domain. Amazon's Route53 supports aliases, but via a 301 redirect, which doe

by whafro 12y ago

We're kinda tied into DNSimple since we use an ALIAS record for our bare/naked/root domain. Amazon's Route53 supports aliases, but via a 301 redirect, which doesn't work in an SSL context (without browser warnings). Nonetheless, we just spun up a Route53 zone, exported our zone from DNSimple, imported to Route53, and hand-migrated our ALIAS records to static A records in the new zone. Not perfect or permanent, but we've gotten around the outage. Also, I just learned that pointhq has (seemingly-undocumented) support for ALIAS records in the same style as DNSimple, so this could be another avenue to explore.

petercooper 12y ago
How are you exporting the zone with things as they are?
- algiecas 12y ago
  same question here - how did you do this while dnsimple.com is inaccessible?
  - zuccs 12y ago
    You can force your hosts file locally. Set "dnsimple.com" to "50.31.213.210". On Mac use "sudo pico /etc/hosts" and follow the formatting of the other entries.
- whafro 12y ago
  Oof, really good point – I suppose I got lucky in that I was at dnsimple.com just a few hours ago for other purposes. Their DNS was still cached for me, and it all worked flawlessly. I didn't even suspect their outage extended to their web servers, though that makes perfect sense. FWIW, the IP I have cached is 50.31.213.210.
  - Pwnguinz 12y ago
    How were you able to find out what IP was cached for a particular domain?
mef 12y ago
FYI you can use ALIAS records without a 301 redirect if the ALIAS is to an ELB.
- deleted 12y ago
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EwanToo 12y ago
A few people do ALIAS style records, DNSMadeEasy and EasyDNS do "ANAME" records which are pretty much the same.
- joshdotsmith 12y ago
  Will these services not have the same thin pipe issue that's currently affecting DNSimple?
  - dentarg 12y ago
    Not that I have any reliable info, but what I've heard, DNS Made Easy is a pretty stable and established DNS provider. They brag about "99.9999% uptime history" at http://www.dnsmadeeasy.com/technology/ http://www.dnsmadeeasy.com/technology/. Though they doesn't seem as innovative and nice as DNSimple. Really hope things work out for DNSimple (really like the idea of their beta feature GitHub sync).
    - stevekemp 12y ago
      How does their beta-feature with github work? I can't find any obvious link and it seems frustratingly close to something I offer over at https://dns-api.com/ https://dns-api.com/ .. (I wrap Amazon's route53 with DNS entries read from github/gitbucket/similar.)
      - zuccs 12y ago
        Can you use custom nameservers with your service?
        stevekemp 12y ago
        When you upload a new zone it will be assigned a set of nameservers - four. You can't choose what they are in advance, and you can't specify the TLDs. So you might end up with "ns-1933.awsdns-49.co.uk.", "ns-1109.awsdns-10.org.", or similar. Does that answer the question? I'm a little hazy on what you're actually asking.

by whafro 12y ago

petercooper 12y ago

How are you exporting the zone with things as they are?

algiecas 12y ago
same question here - how did you do this while dnsimple.com is inaccessible?
- zuccs 12y ago
  You can force your hosts file locally. Set "dnsimple.com" to "50.31.213.210". On Mac use "sudo pico /etc/hosts" and follow the formatting of the other entries.
whafro 12y ago
Oof, really good point – I suppose I got lucky in that I was at dnsimple.com just a few hours ago for other purposes. Their DNS was still cached for me, and it all worked flawlessly. I didn't even suspect their outage extended to their web servers, though that makes perfect sense. FWIW, the IP I have cached is 50.31.213.210.
- Pwnguinz 12y ago
  How were you able to find out what IP was cached for a particular domain?

mef 12y ago

FYI you can use ALIAS records without a 301 redirect if the ALIAS is to an ELB.

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EwanToo 12y ago

A few people do ALIAS style records, DNSMadeEasy and EasyDNS do "ANAME" records which are pretty much the same.

joshdotsmith 12y ago
Will these services not have the same thin pipe issue that's currently affecting DNSimple?
- dentarg 12y ago
  Not that I have any reliable info, but what I've heard, DNS Made Easy is a pretty stable and established DNS provider. They brag about "99.9999% uptime history" at http://www.dnsmadeeasy.com/technology/ http://www.dnsmadeeasy.com/technology/. Though they doesn't seem as innovative and nice as DNSimple. Really hope things work out for DNSimple (really like the idea of their beta feature GitHub sync).
  - stevekemp 12y ago
    How does their beta-feature with github work? I can't find any obvious link and it seems frustratingly close to something I offer over at https://dns-api.com/ https://dns-api.com/ .. (I wrap Amazon's route53 with DNS entries read from github/gitbucket/similar.)
    - zuccs 12y ago
      Can you use custom nameservers with your service?
      - stevekemp 12y ago
        When you upload a new zone it will be assigned a set of nameservers - four. You can't choose what they are in advance, and you can't specify the TLDs. So you might end up with "ns-1933.awsdns-49.co.uk.", "ns-1109.awsdns-10.org.", or similar. Does that answer the question? I'm a little hazy on what you're actually asking.