Migrating billions of records: moving our active DNS database while it’s in use
DNS records have moved to a new database, bringing improved performance and reliability to all customers.
Alex Fattouche
Making zone management more efficient with batch DNS record updates
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.
Connection errors in Asia Pacific region on July 9, 2023
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
How we improved DNS record build speed by more than 4,000x
How we redesigned our DNS pipeline to significantly improve DNS propagation speed across all zones.
Moving k8s communication to gRPC
How we use gRPC in combination with Kubernetes to improve the performance and usability of internal APIs.
Secondary DNS - Deep Dive
The goal of Cloudflare operated Secondary DNS is to allow our customers with custom DNS solutions, be it on-premise or some other DNS provider, to be able to take advantage of Cloudflare's DNS performance and more recently, through Secondary Override, our proxying and security capabilities too.
Orange Clouding with Secondary DNS
Secondary DNS Override is a great option for any users that want to take advantage of the Cloudflare network, without transferring all of their zones to Cloudflare DNS as a primary provider.
