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DNS outages, read closely
What actually failed in real incidents, and how a zone on two providers behaves in each one. Including the cases where it would not have helped.
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Incident: August 14, 2026
13 outages in August 2026: resolution, management and the provider in the middle
Cloudflare logged 13 incidents in eight days, Namecheap lost DNS management for a day, Proofpoint's email domain stopped resolving. What each one means for a zone on two DNS providers.
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Incident: February 20, 2026
Two Cloudflare outages, November 2025 and February 2026: where DNS fits
A bad feature file on November 18, 2025 and withdrawn BGP routes on February 20, 2026. What broke, what kept working, and how a zone on two DNS providers behaves when Cloudflare has a bad day.
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Incident: October 20, 2025
The AWS us-east-1 outage of October 20, 2025 was a DNS failure
An empty DNS record for DynamoDB's regional endpoint took down much of us-east-1 for about 15 hours. What failed, and what a second DNS provider would and would not have changed.