mnordhoff · HackerTrans

12 months agodiscuss

Wait, Namecheap deactivates your domain name if you have a temporary DNS outage?

12 months agodiscuss

You should email them about the form and about your domain. Their email address is listed on the website. <https://quad9.net/support/contact/>

Sometimes the upstream blocklist provider will be easy to contact directly as well. Sometimes not so much.

mnordhoff

12 months agodiscuss

Even without "all-servers", DNSMasq will race servers frequently (after 20 seconds, unless it's changed), and when retrying. A sudden outage should only affect you for a few seconds, if at all.

mnordhoff

12 months agodiscuss

Unless the privacy policy changed recently, Google shouldn't be doing anything nefarious with 8.8.8.8 DNS queries.

mnordhoff

last yeardiscuss

This sounds like a very serious security vulnerability...?

mnordhoff

last yeardiscuss

Wellp. Incident report: "We posted our first incident report to Cloud Service Health about ~1h after the start of the crashes, due to the Cloud Service Health infrastructure being down due to this outage."

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