Migrating billions of records: moving our active DNS database while it’s in use
2024-10-29
DNS records have moved to a new database, bringing improved performance and reliability to all customers....
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DNS records have moved to a new database, bringing improved performance and reliability to all customers....
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Cloudflare is extending the use of our public DNS resolver through partnering with ISPs and network providers to deliver a safer browsing experience directly to families. Join us in protecting every Internet user from unsafe content with the click of a button, powered by 1.1.1.1 for Families....
2024-09-23
In response to customer demand, we now support the ability to DELETE, PATCH, PUT and POST multiple DNS records in a single API call, enabling more efficient and reliable zone management. ...
2024-04-12
We are launching Foundation DNS – our new enterprise-grade authoritative DNS offering. As our new enterprise authoritative DNS offering, Foundation DNS was designed to enhance the reliability, security, flexibility, and analytics of our authoritative DNS service...
2024-03-07
We're proud to introduce the Advanced DNS Protection system, a robust defense mechanism designed to protect against the most sophisticated DNS-based DDoS attacks...
February 29, 2024 2:00 PM
Cloudflare recently fixed two critical DNSSEC vulnerabilities: CVE-2023-50387 and CVE-2023-50868. Both of these vulnerabilities can exhaust computational resources of validating DNS resolvers. These vulnerabilities do not affect our Authoritative DNS or DNS firewall products...
January 09, 2024 2:00 PM
Welcome to the sixteenth edition of Cloudflare’s DDoS Threat Report. This edition covers DDoS trends and key findings for the fourth and final quarter of the year 2023, complete with a review of major trends throughout the year...
December 14, 2023 3:05 PM
In the last decade, IPv6 adoption on the client side went from under 1% to somewhere in the high 30 to low 40 percent, depending on who’s reporting, but there’s also the other end of the equation: the server side...
December 05, 2023 6:00 AM
A recent decision from the Higher Regional Court of Cologne in Germany marked important progress for Cloudflare and the Internet in pushing back against misguided attempts to address online copyright infringement through the DNS system...
September 04, 2023 1:00 PM
In this blog we’re going to take a closer look at “connection coalescing”, with specific focus on manage it at a large scale...
July 11, 2023 8:48 AM
On July 9, 2023, users in the Asia Pacific region experienced connection errors due to origin DNS resolution failures to .com and .net TLD nameservers...
June 23, 2023 1:00 PM
More than 162 million fans tuned in to the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest, the first year that non-participating countries could also vote. Cloudflare helped scale and protect the voting application based.io, built by once.net using our rapid DNS infrastructure, CDN, Cloudflare Pag...
February 28, 2023 2:00 PM
Introducing a new DNS platform that powers 1.1.1.1 and various other products....
December 21, 2022 2:00 PM
Today, we’re releasing DNS record comments and tags, making it easier to keep track of and manage DNS records of your domain...
December 15, 2022 2:00 PM
Cloudflare is participating in the AS112 project, becoming an operator of the loosely coordinated, distributed sink of the reverse lookup (PTR) queries for RFC 1918 addresses, dynamic DNS updates and other ambiguous addresses....
September 30, 2022 1:00 PM
Today, we are launching a new dataset called Radar Rankings, where we identify the top most popular domains that reflect how people use the Internet globally and per country....
May 25, 2022 12:59 PM
Now we’re happy to announce we will return more error code types and include additional helpful information to further improve your debugging experience....
May 25, 2022 12:59 PM
How we redesigned our DNS pipeline to significantly improve DNS propagation speed across all zones....
May 03, 2022 12:58 PM
Today we’re announcing the availability of proxied wildcard DNS records on all plan levels...
March 08, 2022 8:55 PM
The majority of DNS queries on the Internet today are unencrypted. This post describes a new protocol, called Discovery of Designated Resolvers (DDR), that allows clients to upgrade from unencrypted DNS to encrypted DNS when only the IP address of a resolver is known. ...