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UnoriginalGuy on Feb 28, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Name.com hijacks non-existent subdomains and redir...

Easy but for single-server setups also silly.

If your server falls off of the net your DNS goes boom too and you have no shot of redirecting people to a landing page or similar "oh shit" activities.

Now you could re-point your nameserver records but in my experience that takes longer to propagate than a new A record with a short TTL.

jstanley on March 1, 2013 [–]

I take the opposite viewpoint: if the machine is down, I wouldn't be able get to the machine anyway even if DNS was working, so I don't care.

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