Comment on How do people handle authoritative DNS redundancy for their self-hosted workloads?
GatesMcBalmer@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Not sure if it helps but I’m using BunnyDNS from Slovenia for $1/month. I would like to host my own DNS servers but I’m not at that level yet.
Put HE (dns.he.net) in your back pocket - they run a free DNS service which includes slave (do we still call it that?) service so that you can add their resolver as an ultimate failover / failback if your self hosted DNS takes a dive for whatever reason things break in our world.
Generally, hosting your own DNS “should” mean having a primary and secondary on separate AS networks, or at least different provider routes or locations. But if you’re doing all this from home, where is the second location for DR purposes… exactly? I sure don’t have one, power goes out here everything goes dark - in the old days everyone used to do this (share out tertiary DNS to each other) but it’s become a thing of the past in today’s world. HE can help fill that gap.
To your point - I use Gcore DNS and Bunny DNS for my stuff, as I mainly use online VPSes and don’t run racks of hardware at the house. The only things I physically selfhost at home are a pair of old laptops acting as storage servers which backup all my bytes and bits from online to some SSDs.
anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz 2 hours ago
Primary and secondary is what it is usually called today. I know both Microsoft and Cloudflare does at least.
www.cloudflare.com/…/primary-secondary-dns/