DNS Reliability Issues
The cluster focuses on concerns about DNS as a single point of failure, criticism of centralized providers like Cloudflare, and discussions on improving resilience through decentralization, redundancy, and proper TTL management.
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I thought DNS was supposed to be resilient
Someone has to run the DNS servers the browsers talk to - DNS data is big and can change rapidly, especially in the cloudflare and AWS type of cases
Centralised DNS = bad. That's the issue.
Serious question, has anyone properly solved the issue of DNS as a single point of failure?
Surprised to see so many big names relying on a single provider. DNS is designed to be distributed, it should be possible to avoid a single point of failure.
Wouldn't simply owning the DNS be more efficient?
Perhaps using something like a split-horizon DNS setup would alleviate that
At least you've removed one single point of failure for DNS lookups.
DDoS'ing DNS providers is common enough...
Wouldn't that kill DNS if everyone did that considering it relies on caching for performance across the world?