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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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September 17, 2018
Dyn works great
Here at SOS we use Dyn DNS to manage our public DNS infrastructure. The system works great, haven't had any issues with it so far. We don't do much advanced configuration with the system.
- Easy to use web interface.
- Great documentation if help is needed.
- Good security features such as 2FA.
- No complaints at this time.
September 17, 2018
Solid reliable DNS provider with good feature-set.
Dyn Managed DNS is being used as the primary of multiple DNS providers to host the key records for our business. DNS is managed by a central team but multiple internal teams manage their own access to sets of records. We make use of some of the proprietary features, such as Traffic Directors, but try and keep the use of features to a minimum.
- Edge serving of DNS responses is a fairly core success of Dyn in the 9 years I have used them.
- Feature-set is reasonably well developed, GeoDNS including IP/Client Subnet support.
- Customer service is excellent and our technical account team have been good.
- Too many legacy services are supported with different behavior methods, deprecating and merging features would be ideal. I.e Traffic Manager / Traffic Director should be collapsed.
- The API is fragile and has always been a source of great concern and occasional consternation.
- More interesting logging and metrics would be potentially interesting to explore.
- Being able to merge 'advanced' services and also slave zone-files without excessive multi-zone complexity.
September 17, 2018
Oracle Dyn, what else ?!
We learned the hard way, a few years ago, that using a registrar DNS for production domain is a bad idea.
Since we moved to Oracle Dyn, everything is now much easier.
We moved all our production domains to Dyn and also the ones that required a bit more features like Full featured DNS, Geo localization.
The multi user capabilities makes it great for allowing multiple employees to handle the work.
Since we moved to Oracle Dyn, everything is now much easier.
We moved all our production domains to Dyn and also the ones that required a bit more features like Full featured DNS, Geo localization.
The multi user capabilities makes it great for allowing multiple employees to handle the work.
- Full Featured DNS.
- Responsive Servers.
- Intuitive UI/UX.
- The handling of the nodes in the expert or simple view is sometimes confusing.
- HTTP redirects are not easy to find.
- The login with the DYNID within the company is a bit clunky.
- Maybe provide an overview of how the DNS has been propagated.
- Add a Registrar capability.
September 14, 2018
Oracle Dyn Managed DNS Review
Oracle Dyn Managed DNS is used as primary and secondary DNS provider (depending on the domain). It is used across the whole organization. It is used in our company as a high throughput and very reliable DNS provider. We selected to choose two independent vendors (one being Oracle Dyn) for better reliability.
- It is very reliable.
- It has reasonable pricing.
- It has pretty intuitive and well designed user interface.
- The user interface is pretty slow sometimes.
- I find change auditing UI insufficient.
- Expert Editor does not work when there is large number of nodes ("Due to the large number of nodes in this listing, please use the Node Finder to navigate through your zone to a smaller subset.").
September 14, 2018
Dyn DNS
We are using Oracle Dyn DNS as a Hosted service for our external DNS for our entire organization. We chose to do this as part of a multi-year strategy to move to cloud services to reduce the support burdens on our IT staff.
- The biggest advantage is that Dyn DNS reduces the workload on our internal IT staff. Mainly in regards to maintenance and patching but also from a security and monitoring standpoint.
- The system is easy to use and requires very little training or expertise.
- We have not had to call support very often over the years. But when we have they have always answered our questions and in a timely manner.
- I would like to see the cost of the service reduced. While we do get value from the service there have been times more recently where we have considered moving DNS back in-house. This is not due to any issues with the service or support. If we were to do that it would be purely a financial decision as IT budgets are forced to do more with less.
September 12, 2018
Oracle Dyn Managed DNS is fantastic
I am using Oracle Dyn Managed DNS to manage the DNS for several domain name. One domain name has thousands of subdomains. We use DynDNS to manage users ability to have different access to different domain names, which is an important aspect for us. Being able to grant users access to granular DNS settings allows our team to efficiently provide the necessary access to operate quickly with swift turnaround. Our entire engineering department has access to Oracle Dyn Managed DNS.
- Provides good per user access
- Is extremely cost effictive
- Has great uptime
- No integration with other cloud products from AWS, Google Could, Azure, etc
- Batch zone updates which don't require having to edit zone files and then reupload. For example, updating the TTL for several records at a time in the UI
September 03, 2018
expensive but good
Our developers/website/email/online services for customers are resolvable by Oracle Dyn Managed DNS.
- Stability and security are the main reasons for using Dyn DNS.
- Not having to worry about DDOS attacks on DNS.
- 2-factor authentication for users is a must.
- Expensive.
- Not only under our own control so issue with audits.
- Not always user-friendly.
September 03, 2018
Satisfied!!!!
It is being used across our entire organization. We have all of our records managed by them, and they do a great job of it. They are always very attentive to our needs and requests. Our organization is very uptime-centric and Oracle / DYN have done a great job of making those records reliably available.
- Multiple record availability to the web.
- Fast and reliable results for DNS queries.
- Great protection of our records reputation and presence on the web.
- I can't.....they do this job well!!
August 29, 2018
Great Features & Integration Options | Comes at a Price
As a small business website provider in a couple of very specific niches, we needed an HA solution to keep our sites available to consumers as close to 100% as possible. Rather than a single, high traffic domain name, we serve up thousands of independent business domains using the same underlying platform. The managed DNS solution from Dyn allows us to make sure our client sites are highly available.
- API availability. Given that we deal with thousands of domains with different DNS record requirements, automated provisioning and updates are a must-have. Presence of working SDKs allow for quick integration and automation.
- Traffic Controller. Ability to load balance and automatically failover to backup data centers seamlessly and automatically ensures a highly available web experience for our client sites.
- Scalability. Traffic to client sites increases exponentially during holiday periods. The DNS infrastructure handles traffic spikes without issue.
- Pricing for every individual, tiny feature makes understanding billing quite difficult. Features that you might think would be included in a per-domain cost, are not. Pricing for individual traffic controller records, individual domains, http redirects, resource records, QPS, etc... contract pricing could be greatly simplified and less expensive.
- It could have been one-off scenario since it took place immediately after the Oracle purchase of Dyn, but it took 45+ days to get a credit from the billing department after signing an increased contract addendum when working on overage resolutions. This was unacceptable.
- While handling traffic for large brand websites can be considered a positive for the business, the large number of sites that Dyn services also makes it a target for DDOS and other attacks. A disruption at one of the largest
- Cost: The expectation of high availability is almost a given when building a platform that servers thousands of client websites. Given the simple failover features that our company uses I believe the product is overpriced. It works, but it is overpriced.
- Reporting: When dealing with thousands of individual domains, reporting can be difficult to get snapshots of data for individual domains or identify zones that are generating an extraordinary amount of traffic. We've been forced to contact the support team to request some reporting that is not available in the management portal.
We manage the external DNS for our whole organization. Administration is centralized. We wanted to centralize the DNS service and have it hosted on a robust and stable platform. It provides an intuitive, easy to navigate interface.
- Great user interface. Easy to navigate and intuitive. Well documented help notes.
- Resilience and response. Service was impacted during a DDoS and a resolution was provided quickly.
- A very affordable solution that will improve the resilience and availability of your DNS.
- Some improvements to building a customized report would be welcomed.
August 29, 2018
Oracle Dyn DNS Management is secure, and is the best DNS service for any business looking for security and ease of use.
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
We are using Oracle Dyn DNS Management throughout our entire organization. Prior to Dyn we had multiple operating units using any DNS management service they could find. We had some operating units running their own in-house DNS servers. There was no consistency and management across operating units was a nightmare. We have since all migrated our DNS servers over to DYN. This has made DNS management consistent across all our operating units. Great product.
- The user interface is very easy to navigate and to be able to see all your DNS zones and records.
- Changes do not go live until you have reviewed and published them. Great way to check if there are any errors
- I am very happy with this product and do not have any issues with the service or think there is missing functionality.
August 28, 2018
Oracle Dyn Managed DNS
Oracle Dyn Managed DNS is used across our entire organization to provide high availability for our domains, servers, as well as disaster recovery (Traffic Director). This way our domains never go down, our servers can failover, and services remain highly accessible to clients, prospects, and employees via the internet.
- It Just Works - We've tried several other solutions including running our own DNS and at the end of it all we found that you get what you pay for when it comes to DNS. Oracle Dyn Managed DNS works right out of the box.
- 4 Name Servers - It is really nice having 4 name severs at our disposal instead of the traditional 2.
- Extra Click to Publish - All changes made to a record need to be reviewed and officially "Published" in order to stick. This is quite helpful as I can't tell you how many times mistakes were made upon initial data entry.
- Price - Oracle Dyn Managed DNS is on the upper end of price when compared to other solutions. While there is nothing wrong with a premium price for a premium service, we are just talking about DNS.
- Traffic Director is a bit clunky to setup and get going. It requires that you spend time with their technical team to understand. This should be more intuitive.
- False Positives with Downtime probes - There are several instances when a probe for detecting downtime experienced issues sending constant "Down" and "Up" signals. Its annoying, but not impactful.
August 28, 2018
Fantastic service
We use Dyn DNS for our external DNS for all of our sites. We use Dyn for DNS for any of the IPs we host, and our sites hosted by other providers.
- Fantastic communication with any outages or maintenance.
- Fast DNS response time across the globe!
- Fantastically easy to use.
- Very good protection for any DDOS attacks, or other malicious events.
- Dyn has a very good user interface, the only room for improvement would be a guided walk-through for some of the more complex DNS functions (ie. DNS security record options).
August 23, 2018
Dyn handles all aspects
DynDNS is used for our production level external DNS solution. We rely on DynDNS to handle all production load. DynDNS has many of the features required for various projects.
- DynDNS has MFA
- DynDNS also has API endpoints to integrate with command line tasks
- DynDNS has reports to show domain usage
- Reports could have more resolution, per domain.
August 17, 2018
Internet - think of DYN DNS
It has been used for External DNS & Cloud DNS Service for our whole organisation, as well as for our customers. It used for all kinds of DNS services from API, DNSSEC automation, global load balancing etc.,
- DNSSEC has become easier to manage
- Traffic Director helps us to get a GEO based resolution
- ANYCAST based DNS service which provides accuracy across all the regions without any downtime
- When we add any new subdomain, it should reflect its NS records in the parent domain by default but it is not happening at this moment.
- Traffic Manager methodology can be improved from a GUI perspective, it is a bit confusing at this moment.
- [The ability to] restart a particular domain option would help us to make any immediate reflection to External Slave Servers.
August 17, 2018
Dyn DNS Products and Services are worth looking into...
Dyn Managed DNS is our public facing DNS provider. One key product we enjoy is the Active Failover Product.
- The GUI interface is excellent
- The call center is first class and able and eager to assist with DNS questions and strategies
- The sales team is knowledgeable in their product offering
- I don't see room [for improvement] at this time for the products and services I use. I'm very satisfied.
Our non-profit company hosts a number (50+) of critical to our mission websites. Those websites spread across different platforms like AWS, Azure, on-premise IIS, but all the external DNS records are hosted on Dyn name servers. The management panel is easy to use and works fast. DNS configuration is flexible and reliable. For the last 2 years there was only 1 outage (you might remember when Twitter was also affected).
For the most critical websites which have 2 ISPs we leverage Dyn's "Active Failover" service which saved us from outages a couple times already.
For the most critical websites which have 2 ISPs we leverage Dyn's "Active Failover" service which saved us from outages a couple times already.
- Dyn is reliable. For the last 2 years there was only 1 outage (you might remember when Twitter was also affected).
- Dyn's "Active Failover" service which saved us from outages a couple times already.
- Not much actually. 0 outages instead of 1 in the last 2 years wold be great, but that was not Dyn technical error - the outage was cause by DDoS attack.
August 15, 2018
Best DNS, but very expensive.
It is being used in the entire organization. We use it for DNS management. We have also tried dynamic IP, but that didn't worked for us. What I like about DNS is instant updates about DNS records and showing the preview before making it live.
- Preview of all the changes before saving.
- 2FA
- Ease of locating all the sub domains.
- Hard to reset password. (Too many constraints)
- At times the page does not load. We always need to switch to different network to use DYN/DNS which is not the same with other providers like AWS.
- UI is too slow when you release new features.
August 15, 2018
DNS that works
We use Oracle Dyn Managed DNS to manage all the aspects of our DNS entries. We had problems relying on our ISP's especially when they were hit with a DOS attack.
- Can manage all entries easily.
- Facilitates delegating of permissions.
- Always available.
- I'd like to setup and use multiple DNS providers since Oracle did have a DOS attack but so far have not drilled down into getting this setup.
July 20, 2018
Dyn Review
Oracle Dyn Managed DNS is the name server for all of our websites. GoDaddy is the host, but their DNS services are not reputable.
- Multi-account simplicity.
- It's not always the most intuitive dashboard. Often it's a little confusing to navigate. Could be user error.
We use it as our primary DNS service for our main web property. Although we do have a backup DNS outside of Dyn, we use this across our entire organization. Our previous DNS provider had failed one time too many, so we chose Dyn for it's fast and reliable DNS.
- Quick updates to DNS. Propagates changes quickly.
- Speed. Low latency and fast response times.
- Interface is old, but does the job.
- It has a steep learning curve, so you'll need to know a bit about DNS before you use this service.
July 16, 2018
Good DNS product
We use the managed DNS solution for most of our core domain names. Only our sysops employees have access to the product. The biggest problem it solves is redundancy in multiple geographic locations.
- Low latency
- Good redundancy
- Easy to use
- Geo-based DNS
- Better solutions for companies with hundreds of thousands of domains
- Support for comments in the IP restriction ACLs
- A better error message when an IP isn't added to ACL upon login
July 13, 2018
Review of Dyn at a large private internet company
Dyn is being used as one of two primary DNS providers for our main customer facing domain names. We chose Dyn over other offerings based on reputation and performance testing.
- High uptime
- Timely support
- Low latency
- Managed DNS API is very hard to work with, it is also slow when dealing with 1000s of records because the API requires lots of small sequential requests.
- Traffic Director user interface is hard to understand. And it is confusing that is managed outside of the primary managed DNS interface.
July 12, 2018
Enterprise grade DNS solution
Oracle Dyn Managed DNS service is used as our main DNS provider throughout our company; we chose to use it due to its high SLAs and advanced features that we used as a solution for our multi geo platform (traffic director) which helped us achieve our product needs while focusing more on the product and less on the infrastructure.
- Enterprise-grade SLAs for both their service and their management console/APIs
- Advanced features such as traffic director/active failover which removes the need to develop them yourself
- Easy to use APIs for automation in creating/updating DNS records
- Have more expert options for features such as traffic director where you can have more control over the underlying algorithms
- Provide better compatibility with other providers to better allow an addition of 2nd DNS providers for its customers (to avoid SPOF)
We switched to Managed DNS from the basic DNS product in order to gain access to the automatic monitors and failover of our critical systems. While the monitoring isn't particularly advanced (really just up/down) it is very effective and even fails over (and back again) during very brief server reboots.
The rest of the product isn't that different from a basic DNS provider and works adequately.
The rest of the product isn't that different from a basic DNS provider and works adequately.
- DNS Active Failover is fast and easy to set up.
- Basic DNS settings are easy to view and change.
- Dyn now has multiple control panels for its various products and services. It's not always easy to find what you are looking for.
- Switching to the Managed DNS product from the simple one was advertised as an instant changeover, but it didn't work that way for us. Months later we were still being charged for the basic service and our domain was still showing up in the old system.