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Good Web Security News: Open DNS Resolvers Are Getting Closed

Published on February 22, 2013 09:12PM by Matthew Prince.

Good Web Security News: Open DNS Resolvers Are Getting
Closed

This has been a rough week in the security industry with big attacks and compromises reported at companies from Facebook ...

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View Comments | Tagged with ddos, dns, openresolver

CloudFlare: Fastest Free DNS, Among Fastest DNS Period

Published on January 07, 2013 05:38AM by Matthew Prince.

CloudFlare: Fastest Free DNS, Among Fastest DNS
Period

CloudFlare runs one of the largest networks of DNS servers in the world. Over the last few months, we've invested in making our ...

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View Comments | Tagged with anycast, dns, performance, rrdns, solvedns

How to Launch a 65Gbps DDoS, and How to Stop One

Published on September 17, 2012 10:17PM by Matthew Prince.

How to Launch a 65Gbps DDoS, and How to Stop
One

Yesterday I posted a post mortem on an outage we had Saturday. The outage was caused when we ...

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View Comments | Tagged with anycast, ddos, ddosmitigation, dns, imunderattack, traffic

CloudFlare (aka. KickassDNS)

Published on August 01, 2012 07:17PM by Matthew Prince.

One of the things we don't talk about much at CloudFlare is how we've built one of the largest, fastest, easiest, and most resilient authoritative DNS networks in the world. A report from SolveDNS was just released that shows CloudFlare as the second fastest authoritative DNS provider, well ...

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View Comments | Tagged with anycast, dns, fast, kickassdns, webperformance

Never Deal With DNS Propagation Again

Published on May 19, 2012 04:13AM by John Roberts.

Never Deal With DNS Propagation
AgainAt CloudFlare, we think a lot about the Domain Name Service -- better known as DNS, the Internet's address book. CloudFlare uses DNS to bring performance and security ...

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View Comments | Tagged with dns, easy, propagation, timetolive, ttl

Non-Latin/UTF8 International Domains (IDNs) Now Fully Supported

Published on April 10, 2012 01:03AM by Matthew Prince.

Non-Latin/UTF8 International Domains (IDNs) Now Fully
Supported

One of the strangest questions I get when talking about CloudFlare is: "How are you ever going to expand your customer base beyond Silicon ...

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View Comments | Tagged with dns, icann, idn, internationaldomains, punycode, utf8

Check out CloudFlare's New UI

Published on March 31, 2012 08:48PM by Damon Billian.

CloudFlare has been beta testing a new account interface for several months with many of our followers on Facebook and Twitter. This week, we rolled out the new interface to all CloudFlare users. Since a picture is worth a thousand words, I'm going to cover many of the key ...

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View Comments | Tagged with design, dns, ui, update, userinterface, ux

Post Mortem: The Ugly, the Bad & the Good

Published on February 24, 2012 04:08PM by Matthew Prince.

Post Mortem: The Ugly, the Bad & the
Good

Last night was not our finest hour. Around 07:30 GMT, we were finishing up a push of a new DNS infrastructure. The core ...

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View Comments | Tagged with dns, postmortem

Robust, Free DNS FTW

Published on October 18, 2011 01:10AM by Matthew Prince.

Robust, Free DNS
FTW

Most people don't think DNS is very sexy, but it's critically important to the functioning of the Internet. At its core, the purpose of DNS is to turn a domain ...

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View Comments | Tagged with anycast, authoritative, dns, fast, free, recursive

Exiled EveryDNS Users Welcome at CloudFlare!

Published on August 16, 2011 10:53PM by Matthew Prince.

Exiled EveryDNS Users Welcome at
CloudFlare!

Much of what I know about DNS I learned from David Ulevitch, the CEO of OpenDNS. We're a big supporter of OpenDNS at CloudFlare, and John Roberts ...

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View Comments | Tagged with anycast, dns, everydns, free, importer
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