87: The Refrigerator Took Down Your Website

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
• Is Your Site Leaking Password Reset Links? with Comments from Hacker News

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