dns posts

Porkbun has moved to Cloudflare for providing their DNS service. That is fine with me after they had an outage earlier in the year: Cloudflare DNS is pretty reliable.

I was reminded that one shouldn't proxy non-web servers through Cloudflare (at least on their free plan). Continue reading post "#3763"

Porkbun DNS was back up by the next morning after being down at least 4 hours on April 24th. The only word I got from Porkbun about the incident was from a ticket I sent them, in which they said they had a DDoS attack on their DNS servers. Continue reading post "#3734"

Porkbun DNS seems to be down and has been so for the last several hours at least…

Dreamhost has added a nicer DNS management interface, along with some other updates to its panel. Continue reading post "#3322"

I transferred this site's domain (tobymackenzie.com) from Dreamhost to Porkbun. Continue reading post "Domain transferred"

I've set up a CAA DNS record for my domains that allow it. Continue reading post "DNS: added CAA records"

I finally made it happen: I bought a short "vanity" domain. Two, in fact: <macn.me> and <tobm.me>. Continue reading post "Short-domains bought"

Last night, I decided to finally take the plunge and buy a short vanity domain I had been considering for several years (2b1.me), only to find it had been purchased just 48 hours beforehand, at the very registrar I was planning to use (Porkbun). Continue reading post "#2656"

I have turned on this DoH (DNS over HTTPS) thing in Firefox for the last several weeks. Continue reading post "#2543"

After my work laptop was stolen and I switched to an older Mac Mini, my wi-fi internet connection would cut out frequently but somewhat intermittently. Continue reading post "Mac DNS and wi-fi troubles"