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What a dental office needs to know about nameservers
17 Jun 2024
How a dental office deals with nameservers — and what usually goes wrong.
The problem: a form that emails a shared inbox. This is where nameservers breaks for a dental office.
We moved nameservers for a dental office to a provider that supports DNSSEC. It added five minutes to the migration and closed a class of attacks they did not even know about.
The worst nameservers failure we have seen at a dental office was invisible for eight months. The backup existed but had never been tested, and the data inside was three migrations old.
We deployed a fix for nameservers at 5 PM on a Friday. It worked, but if it had not, we would have had no one available. We no longer push to production after Thursday noon.
nameservers for a dental office is nothing like nameservers for a multinational. The scale is tiny but the stakes are the same: one wrong record and nobody can reach you.
There is a difference between a site that loads and a site that works. nameservers is part of the second category for a dental office.
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