What is the turnaround time for DNS to propogate on all of those registrars? Are you forced into waiting for TTL's to expire?
I may be wrong but I think eugeneionesco is referencing instant DNS changes which come as a benefit of using Cloudflare and other large DNS management companies. I've never personally seen a registrar offer anything like that.
While DNS caches can sometimes impact DNS updates, we rebuild the entire zone file when a DNS value is updated, and purge the previous cache. Even for customers, this should happen pretty quickly. We maintain a 5 minute TTL on all proxied records internally. So, this happens much faster than most other DNS services.
Yeah - that's a pretty standard way of doing things, and thats how DNS servers themselves will operate (mostly) when you make an update to a recordset.
Its not your cache that is the issue.
People have miss behaving caches, that do not always respect TTLs, some apps can cache the DNS response (I remember a Java issue where the initial value found was cached for the lifetime of the process!).
The TTL publicly is static and doesn't matter. The resolver you hit will just point to Cloudflare NS. Why we are faster, is because we point internally, and we don't have misconfigured TTLs or caching (I mean, things happen but it's not common). So once you update the global resolvers your visitors would hit to point to CF, their cache/TTL should never matter since we dictate where our internal DNS points the requested record.
#1 - Application (browser, chat client, etc) gets FQDN. It checks if it has the recordset in its cache, and if the TTL is expired.
#2 - Application asks the OS for the recordset. The OS checks its cache, and TTL expiry.
#3 - OS asks the configured local DNS resolvers for the recordset. They check their cache, and TTL expiry.
#4 - These resolvers ask the configured upstream resolvers (e.g. ISP for most home users). They check their cache, and TTL expiry. (This step can repeat, depending on how networks are configured. E.G. ISPs may have DNS resolvers per city, which ask central servers)
#5 - If all of those previous steps fail (the recordset is not cached, or the TTL is expired) the last resolver in the chain will ask the root for the NS records of the zone, which will get fresh records from CloudFlare.
Remember - any of these recursive DNS servers could have an override to cache the recordset for longer than the publicly defined TTL. This is not as much of an issue anymore, but it used to be a massive one.
what mugsie wrote plus.. My post was regarding the management of the zonefile/domain, not so much performance or things related to TTL.
What exactly if your function at CloudFlare Jake? Pondering if this is more marketing then technical/service function. Any chance you are in charge of social media and forum posts about CF?
Personally I have a app crashing bug on android where a certain person shows up (always a few swipes in) and the app goes down. This means I get maybe 1-4 swipes before I have to relaunch.
The account always shows up strangely with a large blue gradient over the image with a star, and a blue star next to her name.
>It would be nice if someone make a docker image with all the tuning set (except the hardware)
Have you not read the article?
>In this post we’ll be discussing lots of ways to tune web servers and proxies. Please do not cargo-cult them. For the sake of the scientific method, apply them one-by-one, measure their effect, and decide whether they are indeed useful in your environment.
I don't defend him in any way but he is not indicted for stealing people's bank account just for writing software that does that, please don't spread disinformation about this.
Of course, and communist revisionist always do their best to sell this idea that whenever communism fails, it's always a conspiracy and someone else's fault.
That, in spite of the repeated spectacular failures that were caused by communism.