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You’re probably doing DNS wrong, like we were

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This link appeared in WDRL 156 on 28.10.2016.

You’re probably doing DNS wrong, like we were

Brian Armstrong from Canopy shares why you shouldn’t rely on default DNS settings, as the recent Dyn DNS outage has shown. He covers how to configure DNS the right way, why a longer TTL is important, and why having different nameservers from different providers can save your service’s uptime.