87: The Refrigerator Took Down Your Website - a podcast by thoughtbot

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 ALIAS Record?


• ANAME records


• Why can't a CNAME record be used at the apex (aka root) of a domain?


• Avoid using non-standard DNS entries


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