DNSimple is widely know for the ALIAS pseudo-"record" because they invented it[1].
Small wonder that a proprietary syntactical sugar leaves you at the mercy of select vendors?
As for volumetric attacks: your point is correct, but is irrelevant if you're using multiple vendors, and a specific, single vendor is the target, like it appears here. Your other authoritative servers would be unaffected.
Small wonder that a proprietary syntactical sugar leaves you at the mercy of select vendors?
As for volumetric attacks: your point is correct, but is irrelevant if you're using multiple vendors, and a specific, single vendor is the target, like it appears here. Your other authoritative servers would be unaffected.
1 http://support.dnsimple.com/articles/alias-record/, or http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ST1BABj...