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Yup. All my clients' sites are down. I wonder what the internet-wide impact is. And I wonder if I can migrate DNS providers while it is down.

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As long as you have the DNS data, yeah, you should be able to do so, unless DH is also your domain registrar.

Unless your domain itself is there with it's root records set on their dns... often called "glue" records.

If your registrar shows "DreamHost, LLC" this would be the case.

Does their domain control panel not allow you to set custom nameservers?

edit: oh, that is probably also under DDoS, whoops

I can highly recommend keeping your DNS stuff separate from hosting. For 'critical' stuff I've been quite happy to use DNSimple for that, and regular mom-and-pop LAMP hosting for the actual site.

In some cases I pipe it through Digital Ocean, because it's nice to have everything in one place, but I've wondered if that might have some performance impact. Can anyone confirm/deny this? So, domain registrar -> Digital Ocean -> hosting.

Your edit is right panel.dreamhost.com doesnt resolve. But when it loads it does have the ability to specify nameservers.

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