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Free solution that worked for me: Set up a free account on cloudflare.com, duplicate all dns records (thankfully I have a simple setup)... but next time I will
by webandtech 12y ago
Free solution that worked for me: Set up a free account on cloudflare.com, duplicate all dns records (thankfully I have a simple setup)... but next time I will keep a backup zone file!
FYI - Instead of an Alias record on DNSimple, CloudFlare will allow a CNAME record for the root domain using "CNAME flattening".
You can now set CloudFlare's DNS service to "bypass Cloudfare" on all records by clicking the icon so you don't get any of their magic (unless you want it).
Then add CloudFlare's 2 nameserves to your domain as your first 2 name servers. No need to remove dnsimple's name servers.
Now you have 2 DNS providers in case one fails, just make sure the records are the same across them both!
- kyletns 12y agoHey thanks for the post, but how do I add CloudFlare's nameservers? DNSimple won't let me add NS records on the root domain: "You may only delegate subdomains". So in theory, I can fix the www subdomain, but my naked redirect to www won't happen if DNSimple is still down. Any ideas?
- webandtech 12y agoYou would set your name servers with your registrar, such as godaddy. If dnsimple is your registrar as well as your DNS provider you may be out of luck until they come back online. The help page is here though: http://support.dnsimple.com/articles/setting-name-servers/ http://support.dnsimple.com/articles/setting-name-servers/
- allr 12y agoAnybody can shed some light on the difference between "CNAME flattening" and ALIAS?
- beevek 12y agothey are essentially the same thing -- both are "proprietary" names for the same feature, which is behind-the-scenes recursive CNAME chain lookups by the authoritative nameserver, to return A records directly.