If you register a domain with Cloudflare or Route 53, and that service goes down, do your records stay active in the DNS servers? What if the DNS servers go down, I know a lot of people use 8.8.8.8, so if Google’s server goes down, then DNS fails?

What are the potential point of failures for having your own domain?

  • Muddybulldog@mylemmy.win
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    1 year ago

    The record will expire and, in this scenario, effectively become non-existent.

    Once upon a time TTLs we’re rather long so temporary outages were less impactive. These days TTLs of less than a minute are common to accommodate redundancy. It doesn’t do want good to have redundant systems if DNS keep pointing at the downed system during an outage.