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What is Oracle Dyn Managed DNS?
Oracle Dyn DNS (domain name system) is an infrastructure-as-a-service that is touted by Oracle Dyne as one of the highest performance global networks existent. It is available as a managed DNS with secondary DNS available for more reliable business continuity…
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What is Oracle Dyn Managed DNS?
Oracle Dyn DNS (domain name system) is an infrastructure-as-a-service that is touted by Oracle Dyne as one of the highest performance global networks existent. It is available as a managed DNS with secondary DNS available for more reliable business continuity on higher service tiers.
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What is Oracle Dyn Managed DNS?
Oracle Dyn provides managed DNS for large web properties. The product serves more than 3,500 enterprises.
The vendor promises the following key differentiators:
1. Performance: For modern
sites and applications, DNS resolution can account for up to 30% of site load
time. The vendor says they respond to DNS queries in less than 30 milliseconds worldwide and
propagate DNS records globally in under a minute. The vendor also says that analysis
shows that Dyn’s DNS network performance is up to 10 times more consistent than
competing networks.
2. Scale: Every day, Oracle Dyn intelligently routes user traffic using internet performance data from over 600 collection points, analyzes over 240 billion source collected data points, and makes 40 billion traffic optimization decisions ensuring customers improve user experiences and contain costs. Oracle Dyn delivers intelligent responses to DNS queries based on policies, geo-location and network latency.
Capabilities include:
- Managed DNS service for ensuring superior DNS performance and availability across the globe
- Traffic Steering solutions for optimizing the responsiveness and reliability of web-based applications and services
- Secondary DNS solution for extending the resiliency of your existing DNS infrastructure.
- All backed by full-time DNS experts and 24x7x365 technical support.
Oracle Dyn Managed DNS Features
- Supported: Industry-leading DNS response times worldwide (<30ms)
- Supported: Industry-leading DNS propagation times (<30s)
- Supported: Hundreds of sensors collecting 240 billion data elements daily
- Supported: Highly resilient network with four tier-1 transit providers per PoP
- Supported: Battle-proven DDoS mitigated expertise built in at no extra cost
- Supported: Continuously improving geolocation accuracy
- Supported: Secondary/Multi DNS support
- Supported: Endpoint failover support based on availability
- Supported: Global endpoint loadbalancing support
- Supported: Fully vendor agnostic support for all CDNs, Public Cloud and Data Center technologies
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Oracle Dyn Managed DNS Technical Details
| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
| Supported Countries | Global support including in-country China |
Frequently Asked Questions
Oracle Dyn DNS (domain name system) is an infrastructure-as-a-service that is touted by Oracle Dyne as one of the highest performance global networks existent. It is available as a managed DNS with secondary DNS available for more reliable business continuity on higher service tiers.
Amazon Route 53, Cloudflare, and IBM NS1 Connect are common alternatives for Oracle Dyn Managed DNS.
Reviewers rate Usability and Support Rating highest, with a score of 8.6.
The most common users of Oracle Dyn Managed DNS are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
Oracle Dyn Managed DNS Customer Size Distribution
| Consumers | 0% |
|---|---|
| Small Businesses (1-50 employees) | 10% |
| Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees) | 50% |
| Enterprises (more than 500 employees) | 40% |
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March 15, 2019
Fast Friendly service for a product that just works.
We use Dyn Managed DNS as our primary DNS provider for our external facing websites. It is used when we want to push traffic to our DR site by adding the sites into "failover". The site is fairly simple to use and intuitive for the most part. I have experienced very little down time from Dyn and have a good overall impression. Their support is quick to respond and knowledgeable.
- Easy To Use
- Fast Support
- Ability to export your DNS records into a CSV would be useful
I was using DYN managed DNS to provide DNS service for my blog, thefrugalgirl.com.
- Our DNS service was provided without any hiccups.
- Dyn Managed DNS is wildly overpriced as compared to other similar services; also, the charges for spikes in traffic seemed unnecessary.
- Dyn Managed DNS had very inflexible contract options; to downgrade our service when the site traffic went down— we had to agree to use Dyn for another two years! The customer service representatives who we had contact with did not seem interested in working with us or earning our business. We did not feel that they cared.
March 12, 2019
Great product/service, but watch out for the sneaky/hidden 60day notice contract cancellation policy
We were using it to provide custom reliable custom DNS servers to our customer base.
- DNS query/resolution time
- CNAME at the root domain level via alias
- Uptime and reliability
- Sneaky contracts with buried 60-day cancellation policies only found in links to websites.
March 09, 2019
Enterprise grade DNS
We were hitting the limits of DNS queries using a Standard DNS service, and were looking for a premier service which could handle volume, as well as provide some failover capability.
- Redundancy.
- Resiliency.
- Failover capability.
- The ability to configure advanced DNS properties.
- Pricing...however, this is to be expected with any enterprise-grade product.
March 09, 2019
Extremely Satisfied Team!
We manage roughly 300 websites as part of our overall marketing plan for our clients. We use Dyn to manage DNS for just about all of them. The biggest thing it helps with is the cname flattening, which allows us to move websites across servers and maintain connectivity, because the A record isn't directly linked to an IP address.
- We love the cname flattening. This allows us to be extremely flexible.
- We love their user management, which allows us to manage our 15 users across departments.
- The advanced DNS tools really help us to get the most from our DNS needs.
- The interface seems slightly outdated compared with the likes of GoDaddy and even CloudFlare. We still love the functionality, but that is one recommendation I have with my history in the front end.
- I'd like to see Dyn offer open source SSLs. This is one thing I still really like about CloudFlare's service.
March 09, 2019
Dyn is a great DNS product for medium to large organizations that want resilience and security in DNS management.
We used to host external DNS servers inside the organization on some Solaris 5 Unix boxes, until a couple of years ago. My predecessor was involved with transitioning to a hosted DNS product, but we didn't stay with that provider for very long. When that guy left, my coworker chose Dyn as hosted DNS, and when he left it fell to me. I had already been using it for some time though.
I like the interface of it. We have about 15 domains for which we use it. Updates were very fast. I use Lets Encrypt's certbot for SSL certificates. One of the sites I used it for is limited to LAN and a handful of external IPs, so renewing certificates was a hassle. The newer method to prove domain ownership is by creating a DNS TXT record and letting the renewing script pick up the TXT token. This could take a while with privately managed DNS, but Dyn has a large presence, so updates propagate fairly quickly.
My company was recently purchased and the parent co. has its own DNS management choice, so we've moved out of Dyn :(. If it were up to me, I'd like to stay with Dyn.
Lastly, the Export editor is very useful. Among other functions, you can export the zone files individually for backup purposes.
- Updates are very fast.
- The serial number is updated using the standard YYYYmmddHHMMSSxx format, and the zone notes are kept for a while.
- They employ 2FA (Google Authenticator, not that SMS garbage) for signing in. I've tried to push this, but it wasn't adopted by all of my IT colleagues. At least if our DNS had been compromised, it wasn't going to be with my account.
- The account ownership can be a big to-do if the account owner leaves the organization. My leader was let go, and the account was in her name. When my company was purchased and she was let go, we moved to another DNS hosted platform, and getting the account out of her name was complicated. I suppose that's best for security though.
- I really don't have any complaints about Dyn. It's a great service.
- I'm told our plan was expensive. I don't know exactly what it ran, though.
As a mostly online retailer, with several brands under our umbrella, our websites are what brings the money in. Therefore, finding a reliable, fast, easily manageable, resilient DNS provider was imperative. Our IT organization uses Dyn as the primary DNS provider for all of our 100+ domains. We use their Managed DNS service.
- Dyn's API is extensive. Any and all tasks can be automated, be it updating an MX record for every single domain, or doing a quick audit to see if an IP is used somewhere. No other DNS provider has that.
- Reporting and auditing. We can run reports against queries, against users, against changes. Everything is tracked.
- User Interface. It's simple, efficient and allows me to do quick tasks, like adding a record to a zone, in just a few clicks.
- Uptime. I mean, except that one DDoS against Dyn that brought down half of the internet, I never saw them down.
- Bulk record change can only be done via API. Which could make it harder for novice users to use, having to rely on manually going from zone to zone.
March 08, 2019
Great UI experience
We use Oracle Dyn Managed DNS to manage the DNS entries for our websites, CDNs, etc.
- Very friendly interface.
- Reliable tool, we never had any issues.
- Great performance and speed.
- Sometimes it's a little bit slow to navigate because we have to wait for the lists of DNS entries to load on the left menu.
March 07, 2019
Solid & Reliable Product
We have used DynDNS for 8+ years, prior to the Oracle acquisition. Recently, due to internal reorganization, we consolidated all of our DynDNS accounts under one master account, to aid in oversight and efficiency. We are a SaaS provider and rely heavily on DNS to provide consistent uptime and fast TTL to our customers.
- Fast TTL.
- Bulk zone editing.
- Multi-zone management.
- GUI could be modernized.
March 06, 2019
Oracle Dyn Rocks!
We are running multiple services for our customers who rely on fast responses from the servers. We use a container tag to deliver online advertisements to our clients. Within the container, we have APIs that deliver user/site information. Delivery and collection of that information is very crucial and should be done in miliseconds. That's where Oracle Dyn shines. It had the quickest response time that we tested.
Domain management for these services is the first most important part of the structure. Response time is really important to us. Oracle Managed DNS makes it very easy to set up and run flawlessly in no time.
Domain management for these services is the first most important part of the structure. Response time is really important to us. Oracle Managed DNS makes it very easy to set up and run flawlessly in no time.
- Easy set up
- Great response time
- Great customer service
- Abundance of features
- Pricing
- Quick tool/tip option to explain some of the more technical setups
March 05, 2019
Dyn DNS easy to work with and it works for you!
We use Dyn Managed DNS to provide a stable DNS service for our hosting services. We automate many of our daily hosting tasks and Dyn's Managed DNS API made it easy for us to integrate into our current workflow. We also use many of Dyn's traffic controller services to provide high availability to our client and corporate servers.
- Easy to work with API.
- Good customer service.
- Price is reasonable.
- Reporting is hard to work with due to the number of domains we manage it is very slow and often times doesn't work.
March 01, 2019
DYN DNS, easy to use, reliable, and FAST
We use Oracle Dyn Managed DNS to manage all of our domains. We used to use the ISP's DNS services, but switching to Dyn Managed DNS reduces our time for changes/updates from days to minutes.
- DNS updates can be seen in minutes
- You get a summary of changes prior to publishing, to allow for proofreading your changes
- Audit log of changes made
- Maybe provide better automation for zone transfers
- Some form of automating the creation of reverse lookup zones for small subnets, including the ability to send name record requests to the remote ISP that owns the full IP block
February 26, 2019
Great for managing a large number of domains
Our organization uses it to control the DNS of all of our support clients. It gives our technicians a single location and a single user account to update DNS no matter which client they are helping. It gives our managers the ability to remove access of former employees to the DNS of all of our clients at once.
- Easily find a specific domain within the domains a user has access to
- Easily edit/update existing DNS entries
- Verification before publishing changes
- The UI could use some improvement in regards to DNS updates. One seems overly complicated and the other doesn't always line up properly.
February 22, 2019
Dyn DNS Traffic Director Review and Rating
It is used by our customers for failover URLs when the primary IP address within fails a health check.
- We migrated this customer away from a competitor's product knowing the features and available configurations would be more feature-rich.
- We have not had any of the issues we saw with GSS.
- Deploying and managing Dyn Traffic Director configurations is intuitive and easy.
- Dyn Traffic Director configurations allow us to put in place all our needed customer options.
- When selecting zones to associate to a Traffic Director configuration, it can take a long period of time for them to load.
- Slow loading interface at times.
- Slow searches at times.
February 22, 2019
Fantastic product for multiple domains
We use it to manage all our external DNS traffic. This is used for several domains we own and we need to constantly keep it updated as our configurations change or new configurations need to be implemented.
- Makes it very easy to manage our external DNS records.
- Great explanation on how to configure things if you're not sure.
- Tech support is a click away and it's very easy to get answers to questions or problems you are facing.
- Would be nice if I could reset my 2FA myself rather then calling into support, but I understand why it is set up how it is.
- Other than that I do not really have anything else I can think of as I have had no issues.
We use Oracle Dyn Managed DNS to host all of The City of Virginia Beach's DNS domains/records. We have several domains that support many different departments and businesses, and we can manage all of them from one central location.
- It uses multi-factor authentication and ensures us that the management of our DNS is secure.
- The interface is easy to use and navigate around, which makes administration less of a headache.
- I've found that when we needed documentation, it was easy to find and very helpful.
- Making changes is easy, but has its safeguards in place to avoid making mistakes. Changes always appear to be updated promptly as well.
- The interface is easy to use, but it looks outdated.
- Bulk updates are difficult due to way you have to make updates in the interface.
- When a record is created, it will show a TTL of "default" but you have to research what that actual default value is. I'd prefer it displayed the actual value
February 13, 2019
Dyn DNS does DNS the right way
Dyn DNS allows us to automate (via the API) creation and management of all types of DNS records and with their scalable infrastructure, we never become unreachable due to DNS.
- Great API to work with.
- Would be great to integrate with Route 53.
February 12, 2019
Good, but not Keeping Up
We use Oracle Dyn Managed DNS to support our hosting clients. Initially, we found it to be faster, have better availability, and easier to use than other DNS services. Another nice feature was its ability to support Dynamic DNS agents at sites that did not have a static IP.
- One of the best features is the interface. Whether you are using the expert or simple editor it is easy to figure out on the fly.
- We've found support to be extremely fast and knowledgeable.
- It is consistently one of the fastest responses to DNS queries.
- It uses role-based access to delegate as much or little access for users.
- It has not made any improvements or updates in the 3 years we've used it.
- Reporting is still lacking common features like automated reports or alerting of usage.
- The SLA that was once one of the best is now one of the worst with just a 97% uptime.
- The price has not stayed competitive as other vendors have improved to match Oracle Dyn DNS speed, ease of use, and better SLAs for as much as 1/3 the cost.
February 11, 2019
Love the customer service. A few interface improvements can be made.
We have two teams, across two departments use Dyn. One team uses it functionally, adding zones for our clients while the engineering team builds out efficiencies and functions tied to Dyn.
- Customer Service. Whenever we have a problem, your support is quick to answer and tries their best to be helpful. This is a HUGE help.
- Easy to use interface. Other than the fact that you have to publish changes twice, the interface is easy to navigate.
- Only have to hit publish once -- not twice!
- Add the ability to create SRV records on the Expert Editor page.
- Easily overview reporting of zone usage for all zones tied to master account.
- Be able to set the default TTL automatically across all new zones created in our account.
February 11, 2019
Over Delivering Promises - ODM DNS
Oracle Dyn Managed DNS (ODM DNS) is our main public DNS provider. We use it for traffic director for load balancing and high availability. It is a very robust solution and it guarantees the promise. I have worked with other providers in the past and my experience dictates that ODM DNS, so far, is the most reliable.
- Traffic Director.
- Replication and Propagation.
- Administration.
- New features are sometimes not intuitive.
- Support is not friendly for beginners (I have experienced this with one of my Engineers showing frustration).
- More reporting angles of analytics.
February 08, 2019
"Great for domain creation"
It is being used across the organization on a POC basis. Currently, we don't use it for addressing any critical business problem.
- It does detect the ISP change really fast.
- Record change is very fast, usually within 15 seconds.
- User interface is very easy to use.
- Can't detect with an ISP that is having packet issues, so the firm thinks it should be failing over and yells at us, but really the ISP hasn't gone down so it wouldn't flip over. It would be nice if it had a way to set packet loss % before it would switch.
February 07, 2019
Set it and forget it!
My company uses Dyn's Managed DNS solution to dynamically adjust the DNS resolution of our URLs to target our preferred gear, accomplishing our HA/DR at the DNS level.
- Dynamically modifies A records
- Propogates DNS changes worldwide in minutes
- Traffic Director is easy to manage
- Would like to see the ability to link two (or more) traffic director services to perhaps use the same server pool and monitor and failover simultaneously.
January 25, 2019
Dyn is Fast, Secure and Worth Every Penny
We use Dyn DNS for all our external DNS resolution. It is managed strictly by IT but many other departments have needs that are addressed by Dyn. The service has been in use for about 5 years and has been very solid. No major outages or security concerns. It was used to replace our own external DNS server which was often problematic.
- The portal is friendly and easy to use.
- Their support is good if you have any questions or issues, they got back to us quickly.
- The service supports two factor auth which is a requirement for external services these days.
- The ability to switch between basic and advanced views is nice.
- Sometimes users get locked out quickly if they forget their password. It's an inconvenience but not a problem with the service itself.
- If you are not technical or understand the different types of services and records then you need to learn that first as the service won't explain that.
- The integration between the customer portal and the services portal is not great. I can't always switch between one or the other. Acts like they are completely different sites/services without great integration.
January 22, 2019
I like it.
It is used to host our public facing DNS across the whole organization. It saves us the trouble of maintaining public DNS servers.
- The console is straightforward and easy to use. I haven't needed to go searching for documentation on how to do certain things as it's easy enough to figure out just by looking at the console.
- Sometimes, the web console runs very slowly. This is rare, though.
December 28, 2018
Oracle Review.
It is used in our department to facilitate access to our customers' firewalls and routers using DDNS instead of requiring a static IP from the ISP. It gives us an excellent centralized location for DNS configuration and allows us to quickly and efficiently update, add, or delete locations as necessary.
- It is extremely easy to update.
- The search options in the node finder are clunky and cumbersome, requiring an exact match to find a node.