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		bitJericho on March 25, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: DNS Outage at DigitalOcean You can have multiple NS records. You should have ns records that point to different companies DNS servers, and preferably different continents.

scurvy on March 25, 2016 [–]

That's great for NS records. What about SOA?

bitJericho on March 25, 2016 | [–]

Soa isn't used for resolving names afaik.

scurvy on March 25, 2016 | | [–]

You're right. Sorry I meant the NS glue records. Those have a 1 day minimum TTL. If you're not already running multiple providers, switching after one is down won't help much.

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