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What is Oracle Dyn Managed DNS?
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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
Oracle Dyn Managed DNS Competitors
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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December 17, 2018
Dyn Review
Our department is using Dyn to do global traffic management for Office 365.
- Dyn is easy to configure DNS and implement traffic routing.
- Dyn is robust and provides solid service.
- I have seen quick response in fixing any problem identified in traffic management.
- Dyn could provide easily roll back features for any changes done. At present you have to manually edit changes if something goes bad. They need to provide versioning control for changes.
December 17, 2018
Reliable and nice to use, can be better
We use Dyn to manage our domains and subdomains in order to send mails and route our different sub-domains to our apps. It's currently operated by the infrastructure team only, developers don't have to worry about it with some exceptions.
- Easy to navigate. You select a zone and there you have a tree containing all the sub-domains in that zone; sub-sub-domains are grouped with their sub-domain and you can expand them just clicking.
- Not error prone. You make the changes and then you publish them, minimizing the risk of changing something for mistake.
- Average HTTP API.
- API calls (i.e. from terraform) sometimes fail under certain circumstances. The API is good but not flexible enough to have it all automatized.
- UI is strange sometimes, for example, yesterday I was trying to change the TTL of a TXT record in our root domain and changing its TTL *sometimes* changed the TTL of all the TXT records under that domain (there were two), sometimes not. This was using the Simple Editor.
December 13, 2018
Dyn
We use Oracle Dyn Managed DNS for our external DNS. We have about 130 TLDs. Dyn's ability to deploy DNS records quickly is a real asset. The distributed centers they employ make it so my changes are felt quickly across my user and customer base.
- Distributed DNS data centers
- Ability to set TTL as low as 30 sec.
- Ease of use.
- Navigation on the page could be more intuitive.
- At my account level having more failovers would be nice.
- User account management - other team members on the account is a little hard to use.
December 10, 2018
About 5 years in production with Dyn DNS.
We use Dyn to distribute traffic across multiple data-centers and to failover automatically between them.
- Traffic director works well when shifting traffic to different Data-centers according to end user source IP.
- Active failover provides an easy way to failover between dc when specific health check fails.
- DNS records updates are published fast.
- API - working with DSF ID is not fun.
- Python SDK is not complete, and updating an existing record should be done with less code.
December 08, 2018
Good Dynough
We use it for the Global Traffic Director feature. It has a good level of reliability and support at the correct price point for us.
- Direct line to knowledgeable support. Calling in with any issue we have always encountered intelligent and knowledgeable support personnel.
- Datadog integration is a nice plus.
- Simple option management for global TD response pool failovers lets us do regional maintenance without worries.
- The website interface is archaic.
- The split brain between DynID, contacts and users will leave you scratching your head.
December 08, 2018
Reduce cost, improve reliability, add tools to manage DNS
We use Dyn as our external DNS provider. It is being administered by my team and the systems engineering team, for all of WebMD's domains. It provides a centralized method to manage a thousand DNS domains.
- The audit capability and managing entries through the Web interface is easy to use.
- The API is well documented and easy to use.
- The canned reports work well.
- The pricing is too expensive.
- Getting custom reports is difficult.
- The load balancing isn't good - we tried it and didn't like it. We don't need now though as we're using our cloud provider.
- It's fine for standalone DNS, but as CDNs and cloud providers provide DNS functionality, it's difficult to justify a DNS only provider.
December 08, 2018
Reliable and consistent managed DNS at a fair price.
Oracle Managed DNS provides the DNS services for all of our production services.
- We use their traffic management features to route users to our services efficiently.
- DNS configuration is quick and easy.
- Changes are easily staged and applied after final review.
- User interface is a bit dated.
- Filtering and sorting is inconsistent.
December 02, 2018
Straight to the point review
We use it to manage external DNS. Only our team uses it but we are are a global team. It allows us to have customer facing sites.
- It has a better managment interface than similar products.
- It has safeguards to prevent you from publishing erroneous or conflicting records.
- It's available on multiple platforms and formats.
- I would like the "Save Changes" button to be at the top of the page.
November 24, 2018
Oracle Dyn, the best Managed DNS provider on the internet.
We host many corporate websites and their DNS for customers and use Dyn exclusively for these websites. My team and one other two other teams are the primary uses of Dyn in this company. It makes it quite easy to update DNS entries for customers and I have never experienced any issues from using the product.
- I have never experienced any reliability issues from using Dyn.
- I really rely on the different modes of editing DNS - Expert, Simple, Bulk, etc.
- I have never run into any issues with a lack of features.
- Honestly I would be at a loss to make a suggestion. Any option, help, guides, etc., I would want are already in Dyn.
November 16, 2018
Solid, resilient DNS partner
We are a SaaS company which allows each account to have its own subdomain or a vanity domain. We divide these customers across different app/database clusters for fault isolation and resiliency. We use Oracle Dyn Managed DNS to manage which cluster each subdomain points to. This is largely driven by automatic API integrations, although occasionally manual intervention is necessary.
- Handles our large zone file.
- Provides an API to integrate with.
- Has been a reliable and professional partner.
- Our zone file is so large that it is very hard to navigate by hand. Sometimes you have to just guess a URL to get where you need to go.
- We have run into occasional issues with API rate limiting, even when sending low request volume.
November 16, 2018
Is DYN for me?
We use Traffic Director to do our regional based load balancing.
- Easy to use interface for traffic director
- Fantastic uptime
- Flexibility in shaping failover rules
- Website design is not intuitive
- More flexibility on health check endpoints
- Responsiveness of website
November 06, 2018
Dyn works for us
We use it to manage our public DNS as well as their failover services for high-availability applications.
- The interface is very intuitive and we can easily modify our records.
- We can easily track and rollback changes made.
- Failover DNS services allow us to have DR take over automatically when one site goes down unexpectedly.
- While the interface is easy to use, the navigation could benefit from better breadcrumb location tracking for services and hosts.
November 06, 2018
Great to mange multiple domains in one place
We use Dyn for managing our complex client DNS records for our software platform.
- Managing multiple DNS domains
- Adding new records
- User Management
- UI can be clunky and Dyn doesn't always use the same terms for features as other DNS providers
October 26, 2018
DNS Success for Small Business
We used Dyn to outsource our DNS infrastructure so we could focus on development.
- Delegated management
- Reliability
- Safeguards against accidental record input
- Interface is or was cramped on mobile.
We primarily use it for managing our DNS for numerous domains, especially for our services that we run out of our Datacenter. It's used by the IT Department to provide availability to our services worldwide. It addresses our need to be able to update DNS records on the fly while knowing that the changes will happen almost instantaneously.
- Easy to manage DNS records across multiple domains.
- The updates are very quick and are usually available within seconds.
- We have added features for DNS resolution that other DNS providers don't provide.
- It would be nice to quickly filter content by IP ranges, rather than have to click through many domains. It would make ISP changes easier.
We have been with DYN since they were DynDNS back in 2005. DYN hosts the DNS records for all our domains. We have also previously used their Active Failover service.
- E-mail alerts for changes to DNS, this ensures that malicious actors can not make changes to our systems without us being warned
- Users must publish changes after that have been made, this re-confirmation helps to prevent accidental DNS changes
- Easy to use interface
- The user management is atrocious. It needs a complete overhaul and is not fit for purpose
- DYN is out of touch on its pricing model. Their costs are multiple times more expensive than AWS or Cloudflare
- Inflexible billing and "sneaky" locked in contracts
October 19, 2018
Great for domain creation.
Oracle is mainly used by our new accounts department in setting up email accounts for in coming customers. Our system needs to be able to sort through email replies and then distribute them to the correct sale person. Oracle allows us to quickly and accurately create domains for that purpose. We host thousands of email domains through Oracle.
- Our company uses Oracle to host client email accounts and Oracle fulfills that need flawlessly.
- We have never had any issues with accounts randomly going down.
- We can easily sort through and edit the domains we have created.
- Some portions of the process of creating the domains tend to take longer to load than I would like but not so much that it's a problem.
- After creating thousands of domains the list becomes rather unwieldy.
- The process of creating domains isn't very intuitive.
October 17, 2018
A Decade of great DNS service
We have 20+ domains that DYN does DNS for, and mainly for our 4 high volume properties. I have pingdom monitoring the DYN dns response on 3 of the properties and I think this year, and only once, for 30 seconds they had a little hiccup. I think that is in the 99.999% uptime range? We are 100% inside Amazon AWS cloud and we sometimes need to move properties between services (ec2--> Cloudfront,etc.) DYN has been good for me, helping me get DNS changes done rapidly and easily.
- For DNS modifications they have multiple user interfaces, some are better for little changes, others ideal for bulk modifications
- Outside of the Ddos of Oct, 2016 (took out 1/3rd of the net in North America?), I've had zero problems with Dyn.
- Low overhead, no bother.
- There is a feature I've read about (DNS "alias", separate from cnames) I had considered using, but did not actually need. It looks like DYN has some level of support for that,but I might have to read the online help to find out how.
- I'm not sure where the problem is, but sometimes when using DNS based verification of ownership in Google search console, it fails. only 1/3rd of the time,but I think that is a Google thing.
Oracle Dyn Managed DNS is being used for all of our external DNS resolution needs. (Anything that isn't under the management of Active Directory.)
- Great reliability of DNS resolution services.
- Broad worldwide footprint for good redundancy.
- Broad worldwide footprint for geo-local DNS resolution.
- Web management interface is somewhat difficult to get used to.
- Web management interface went down for a few hours right when we needed it one time - not good. (DNS resolution continued just fine without fail, but we could not make a critical change in a timely manner. Oracle Dyn was also unable to make the change on our behalf over the phone. Not a good situation to be in.)
- Hard to perform mass updates at once through the web interface.
September 28, 2018
DYN DNS shines while user management lacks
We use DYN Managed DNS to manage all DNS across our organization. It allows a simple tool to keep all of our DNS management in a central location with the redundancy that is offered by DYN. We're able to stage our updates and push them live when ready for the changes to go. It's a simple tool to use.
- Both a basic UI and advanced UI for all levels of management.
- Simple tools to see what changes are complete and which are pending.
- Ability to export and import DNS entries in standard formats.
- User management is very messy. It needs to be fixed after the change to a single sign-on a few years back, and it feels unfinished.
September 27, 2018
When you tire of managing your own DNS, look this way.
Prior to using Oracle Dyn Managed DNS we published our external DNS records from our own servers. Although this worked well, we were responsible for maintaining and patching those servers. Security was the driving force that lead to deciding on a managed DNS site. The security and scalability of Oracle Dyn made the decision pretty easy. The interface makes it very clear what you are doing and gives you ample opportunity to back out before you push unexpected changes.
- Provides you opportunity to review before publishing.
- UI is very straight forward.
- A records are obvious in the UI, but it wasn't as clear when creating SRV and other less common record types. To be honest, I think straight text files are simpler, but they do make mistakes harder.
September 24, 2018
Always there for you
It is used by one entity within our organization and it allows that entity to run multiple domains with one easy interface. The interface allows real-time changes to be made and we don't have to worry about other domains being affected by the changes. It is very self explanatory and other users in my organization can easily make changes while I am gone.
- Easy to manage interface
- Extremely fast public entry changes
- Has all aspects of local DNS so it is easy to use
- An easier to use failover service to switch between ISP addresses during an outage
- Can switch between ISPs without user intervention when one subnet becomes unavailable
- Changes are made quickly so no waiting on propagation.
September 24, 2018
Reviewing DynDNS after 8 years of growing
A few key engineering leads manage our DNS. Besides regular DNS lookups we utilize Dyn for georouting.
- Fast lookup times.
- Convenient rest API to automate DNS management.
- Fast and helpful support.
- login/user management seems overly complicated.
- Sometimes load times of the web interface are slow.
September 21, 2018
Great Product!
Dyn Managed DNS is being used with one of our law firms we manage the IT for. It detects when one ISP goes down and to update the terminal server FQDN and exchange server FQDN so email and remote access can come back up within a short period of time on the second ISP. This was set up with the former MSP, so we got introduced to it through hand-off of the service. We like it and are looking into using it with other clients.
- 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.
September 20, 2018
A Quick Review on Dyn Managed DNS
Oracle Dyn Managed DNS is used for external facing service endpoints. It's a cloud-based service that's simple to setup and manage. It supports sufficient level of automation. It publishes all external facing DNS information and it's used across the whole organization. It makes our services available to our customers on the internet. It provides a reliable DNS lookup service that can scale and perform.
- It's easy to add or modify DNS records.
- It has an API that support sufficient level of automation.
- It has adequate intelligence to manage traffic.
- RESTFUL API can be expanded to support scripting and automation.
- More pre-built objects and functions in SDK to faster development.
- Pre-built integration points with web applications.