On Aug 7, 2025, at 9:41 PM, John Todd via NANOG <[email protected]> wrote:

> we split traffic on the "back-end" between PowerDNS recursor and Unbound


Using multiple products is definitely best practice. At my company, we have 
half of our (anycasted) authoritative DNS servers using BIND, and the other 
half using PowerDNS.

If you don't do this, you can be vulnerable to something like CVE-2025-40775, 
where an attacker can terminate all your DNS servers simultaneously by sending 
each a malicious packet. Or maybe there's some other bug in the software that 
makes it randomly crash at a certain time. If this happens, you want to make 
sure that only half of them go offline.

-- 
Robert L Mathews

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