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What is SkyDNS?

SkyDNS is a distributed service for announcement and discovery of services built on top of etcd. It utilizes DNS queries to discover available services. This is done by leveraging SRV records in DNS, with special meaning given to subdomains, priorities and weights.

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SkyDNS is a distributed service for announcement and discovery of services built on top of etcd. It utilizes DNS queries to discover available services. This is done by leveraging SRV records in DNS, with special meaning given to subdomains, priorities and weights.


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SkyDNS
Year Founded
2008
HQ Location
San Francisco, CA
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Verified UserMid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
3.5 out of 5
"Great DNS service and Propagation"
I think the propagation times are fantastic and I never had to wait very long after changes are made.
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Maseera K.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"SkyDNS"
SkyDNS is a highly reliable and efficient DNS service. One of the standout features of SkyDNS is its impressive speed, ensuring quick access to web...
Itay S.
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Itay S.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Perfect open source DNS solution"
OpenSource solution perfect for thos who don't want to relay on Microsoft DNS in order to provide DNS service in their network.
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What do you like best about SkyDNS?

SkyDNS is a highly reliable and efficient DNS service. One of the standout features of SkyDNS is its impressive speed, ensuring quick access to websites and online services.SkyDNS stands out as a top-tier DNS service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SkyDNS?

One area that could be enhanced is the availability of advanced customization options. Apart from a user-friendly experience, it may lack some advanced features and fine-grained control that more technically savvy users might desire. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SkyDNS solving and how is that benefiting you?

SkyDNS solves several problems related to DNS resolution and management.

1. Fast and efficient Resolution

2. Reliable DNS service

3. Simplified DNS management

4. Advanced features for optimization

Responsive customer support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Itay S.
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What do you like best about SkyDNS?

OpenSource solution perfect for thos who don't want to relay on Microsoft DNS in order to provide DNS service in their network. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SkyDNS?

Not simple to configure................. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SkyDNS solving and how is that benefiting you?

Seving charges.

Indepented Service that is not related to microsoft server. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Mining & Metals
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What do you like best about SkyDNS?

I think the propagation times are fantastic and I never had to wait very long after changes are made. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SkyDNS?

The UI took some time to get used to, so I feel that could improve a bit. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SkyDNS solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helped us connect services by using domain names instead of IPs. This helped us keep better processes that were static. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about SkyDNS?

I really like DNS and hosting of thing but the setup of DNS server etc that I don`t like. apart from this, I would really recommend it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SkyDNS?

basically, there is nothing to dislike but if I have said make the full documents to use and some videos tutorial to explain how to use it in the right way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering SkyDNS:

I really share and recommends to users and my friends to use it. if anything goes wrong then it should easily resolve by support teams. then just go for it if you like the internet of things. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SkyDNS solving and how is that benefiting you?

like I said use of sky DNS is complicated but the benefit is that sky DNS is open source. there must be dedicated a support portal to help people to fix their problems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ashok M.
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Retail
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What do you like best about SkyDNS?

SkyDns is easy and good user interface, I like skydns because it helps me protect my privacy from other world. SkyDns have lot's of servers and choose what best for you to give you high bandwidth.

also you will get 15 days trial period for first use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SkyDNS?

15 days trial is too short, i hope they will change it to 30 days initially. most frustrating part is installing skydns because you have some knowledge to use it is not available to use direct you have to grab it from github and then execute it with command prompt. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering SkyDNS:

Highly recommend to keep safe your privacy from other world. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SkyDNS solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps me to keep my privacy hidden from other world and i can visit websites that are not allowed in my office. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Heather D.
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Small Business Owner
Publishing
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What do you like best about SkyDNS?

The DNS servers are quite a change of pace really. In my experience with I.t, software, a good VPN and DNS Provider are vital, this one is locked down and honestly very well developed with more than sufficient dns ports that are very new, fast, clean and reputation.. It's solid, they run solid dns ports to run through, New id's that' aren't washed up. From my dns provider this is a top shelf reliable company who will have your back for sure! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SkyDNS?

The price, and the over all extensive confusion that came with, due to the details and fine print,I myself whom is an I,T, major and savant, even found that the over all extensive nature it keeps, is almost overwhelming,but after you understand it gets easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering SkyDNS:

It's compicated and detailed. It's not for a beginner,if you stay on top of it, it's. Okay cause it will get easier.

It's expensive, and maybe a bit over priced but it's worth it for many reasons, I found it to be too much effort, too much confusion too expensive. But check it out, they're worth it, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SkyDNS solving and how is that benefiting you?

Locking down my small business secutiry for various reasons, I m a firm believer that internet traffic and web securiitps vital and it is also often overlooked.

It's smooth and efficient. It's effective and does exactly as it says, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Education Management
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What do you like best about SkyDNS?

The source record discovery or we call it srv discovery for etcd is really great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SkyDNS?

Despite the updates it has actually gotten to the point where it is almost up to its limits.

CoreDNS is a better alternative Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering SkyDNS:

I would say look for CoreDNS or other better than this. There are a lot of products better than this available in the market. Following are few recommendations

CoreDNS

Eureka

Bind

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What problems is SkyDNS solving and how is that benefiting you?

I switched to CoreDNS. SkyDNS helped me a lot. It took me time to learn but now I am more into CoreDNS and have completely switched to it. More companies prefer other products than this. Following are few that I would recommend

Eureka

CoreDNS

Consul

Bind Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about SkyDNS?

1. In the Wi-Fi router settings, the DNS is indicated and within 5 minutes everything starts working.

2. Filters for W-Fi routers are powerless over HTTPS, there is no such drawback.

3. Does not require any large investments or long settings.

4. You can fully understand and evaluate the service during the free test period (14 days).

5. Unlike Yandex.DNS, and other analogues, everything is configured here. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SkyDNS?

1. The interface seems a bit outdated, and, perhaps, could be clearer. For example, when you select access to sites only on the white list, all the checkboxes of the filter are immediately removed. By the way, filter switching does not always work.

2. When the filters turned off the Internet, the Android phone immediately recognized this and turned on LTE. Support could not tell which host to add to the exceptions. Found it by experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering SkyDNS:

Budget solution for home users, small and medium businesses, educational institutions, libraries and operators of access to the Internet, which allows you to differentiate access to websites and Internet services without large financial and technical costs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SkyDNS solving and how is that benefiting you?

Used at work and filtered bad sites and advertising. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Miguel Ángel D.
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Technical Advisor
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about SkyDNS?

skydns allows you to protect your privacy when you connect to the internet by browsing web pages blocking the dns you do not want to enter and allowing the blocking of intrusive advertising. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SkyDNS?

It is a service that allows only 15 days in its trial version, the free version filter only a few categories and has no payment by paypal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering SkyDNS:

There are other solutions such as pihole that do the same by installing it in a raspberry pi or in a linux distribution to block the traffic through dns. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SkyDNS solving and how is that benefiting you?

Filter the intrusive advertising of web pages and maintain privacy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about SkyDNS?

SkyDNS worked well for our environment we needed something to perform lightning speed queries , and this does just that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SkyDNS?

Initial setup and installation was very frustrating to say the least. No faults after setup though. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SkyDNS solving and how is that benefiting you?

We needed a open source option to provide us with service discovery that had minimal setup time and configuration. Unfortunately the installation and maintenance took far longer than expected. Once setup we were good to go. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.