87: The Refrigerator Took Down Your Website
We talk about a widespread DNS outage and what steps you might take to avoid or limit your application's exposure to these things in the future.
November 10, 201632m 1s
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Show Notes
We talk about a widespread DNS outage and what steps you might take to avoid or limit your application's exposure to these things in the future.
- Deprecate the behavior of AR::Dirty inside of after_(create|update|save) callbacks
- Distributed Denial of Service attack on DNS Provider Dyn
- What is an
ALIASRecord? ANAMErecords- Why can't a
CNAMErecord be used at the apex (aka root) of a domain? - Avoid using non-standard DNS entries
- Is Your Site Leaking Password Reset Links? with Comments from Hacker News