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  • 1.  We Need a New DNS Hosting Provider. Suggestions?

    Posted 07-12-2022 01:04 PM
    TPx (our ISP) is dropping DNS hosting and will no longer be the authoritative DNS for our domain in mid-August. Nothing like a little notice. 

    Do you have any suggestions? I was looking at both Cloudflare, since they are very highly recommended, and Google Cloud DNS, since we are already a Google Workspaces for Education company.

    Thanks.

    Bill
    #ITSystemsandSupport

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    Bill Bates
    Director of Technology
    Pinewood School
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  • 2.  RE: We Need a New DNS Hosting Provider. Suggestions?

    Posted 07-13-2022 05:52 AM
    A number of cyber insurance policies are now asking for / requiring secure DNS. Take a look at QUAD 9 - https://www.quad9.net. It is free and secure.

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    William Stites
    Director of Technology
    Montclair Kimberley Academy
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  • 3.  RE: We Need a New DNS Hosting Provider. Suggestions?

    Posted 07-13-2022 02:03 PM
    Hi Bill,

    Just want to make sure you are talking about DNS and not domain registration servers which are different animals.  For example, we have Comcast as our ISP but our domain is registered at AWS Route53 and that's where all our host records live. DNS is provided internally with our AD DNS which uses root servers for updates. When we started with Comcast way back they were also our domain hosting provider and we had to switch.

    Hope that helps and isn't pedantic. There is a lot of confusion out there in how this is all set up.  

    Take care,
    Ally

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    Allyn Wenzel
    Director of Technology
    Stevenson School
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  • 4.  RE: We Need a New DNS Hosting Provider. Suggestions?

    Posted 07-13-2022 02:43 PM
    Allyn,

    Thanks for the response! Right, I do mean DNS. Educause is the registrar for our domain (pinewood.edu) and points to our authoritative DNS, but TPx (our ISP) was hosting our primary DNS records (as is normal for ISP's). They hosted the authoritative DNS for our domain.

    I ended up going to Cloudflare yesterday. TPx recommended GoDaddy, and I did look at their offering. It was cheaper than Cloudflare, but I have had issues with GoDaddy in the past and decided not to go with them. 

    Google Cloud DNS's pricing structure was not straightforward enough for me, and the setup seemed a bit over complicated for our needs. 

    Bill

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    Bill Bates
    Director of Technology
    Pinewood School
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  • 5.  RE: We Need a New DNS Hosting Provider. Suggestions?

    Posted 07-13-2022 06:03 PM
    +1 to Ally's response. We use AWS Route 53. I'd be happy to talk you through how to get up and running.

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    Larry Steinke
    Technology Director
    Saint Francis High School
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