Starting earlier this year, OSHEAN began moving it’s DNS hosting to a new provider called DynECT. This is a free service to members and we host your external DNS.
As a brief history, this is an offering that OSHEAN has offered for quite a few years. Previously, we have hosted DNS servers in our core. The service has worked well however, one of the major drawbacks was if we served as your primary DNS, then you lost control to make your own changes. As the infrastructure has aged and we started to look at the next generation, delegation of administration was a must. We examined several solitions and decided on DynECT for a variety of reasons.
Some of which I’ve listed below:
-Global Reach – DynECT has DNS servers on all of the continents. Because of this, changes take effect much quicker on a global scale.
-Uptime – DynECT is monitored globally 24/7/365. Due to the redundancy in the solution, the chances of downtime are slim. In addition to that, OSHEAN has located two servers at the OSHEAN core in the event that there is a failure on the DynECT side. When you provision your name server records, you will have 4 servers at Dyn and 2 servers at OSHEAN for a total of 6 DNS servers to cover your DNS lookups.
-Features – DynECT offers a wide range of features ranging from standard DNS to dynamic DNS, DNSSEC, IPv6, and more.
-Administrative Portal – The easy to use DynECT portal allows OSHEAN to delegate control of your DNS to you, the admin. We will still be glad to make changes for you if you wish however, we can now put that control in your hands so you can make changes on your own.
-DNSSEC – This is a hot button item right now in the DNS world. Many of the registrars are pushing for domains to begin using DNSSEC. The classic problem with DNSSEC is the complexity of the inital setup depending on the platform users were running. With DynECT as your primary, DNSSEC is very easy and only takes a couple clicks to generate your keys and you’re off the races!
If you are interested in hearing more about the service or would like to take advantage of this free offering to members, please send an email to noc@oshean.org and we will respond back to you!