Wednesday, September 01, 2010

Free secondary DNS services

If you run an authoritative DNS server and serve your own zones you may know about the need to have decent secondary DNS servers, or "slaves", to back you up. I recently changed mine, followed recommendations by Frankb's page and found new ones.

August 2019 update: so far these are great, so passing the word.
  • puck.nether.net: simple, IPv4+IPv6, supports DNSSEC, 1 location; fairly quick to update usually, but had troubles recently (2019-08) so I removed it
  • freedns.afraid.org: simple, IPv4, supports DNSSEC, 1 location; a bit slow to update, sometimes times out, but otherwise stable for years
  • BuddyNS: fancy, but DNSSEC support is not free, so no
  • 1984hosting: simple, IPv4+IPv6, supports DNSSEC, 3 NS; new one I'm trying, so far so good, fast to update
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6 comments:

  1. AnonymousOctober 22, 2010 at 5:18 PM

    you forgot 2 services, used by good and (mainly) bad guys :

    http://ns2.trifle.net/ - free dns service in Ukraine,
    http://www.freedns.ws/en/ - free dns service in Ukraine, Germany and US.

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  2. ncdave4lifeOctober 31, 2012 at 9:08 AM

    I'm using FreeDNS.afraid.org to back-up my zoneedit DNS service, which is plagued by DOS attacks. FreeDNS.afraid.org seems to work fine.

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  3. AnonymousJanuary 21, 2013 at 6:06 PM

    Give a try to recently strated http://system-ns.com

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  4. AnonymousJanuary 22, 2015 at 5:44 AM

    I have used puck for a couple of years with no problems but they seem to be plagued by downages lately and sometimes are off line for long periods. Too bad. It might be a good thing to look at the origin of the servers for Buddyns... India and the notorious Hezner network in Germany who are one of the most spam/hack plagued networks on the planet, so much so that I have blocked their entire set of IP blocks until further notice. Just sayin.

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  5. StalkRJune 28, 2017 at 6:24 PM

    Sadly RollerNetwork went paid-only, removed from the list.
    http://www.rollernet.us/wordpress/2016/12/secondary-dns-transition-to-paid-only/

    @Dmitry: do you know if system-ns supports DNSSEC? I couldn't find any mention on the site.

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  6. StalkRAugust 22, 2019 at 1:11 PM

    I'm having troubles with puck.nether.net not syncing for a few days, so I looked for a new free secondary dns service, discovered https://1984hosting.com/ they seem great! Simple, IPv4+IPv6, dnssec, quick updates, 3x NS.

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