On 2016-04-08 Theodore Baschak wrote:
Have you looked at running multiple recursive resolvers on your system and using a load balancer to always hit a live one? http://dnsdist.org/
That's an idea... it would take care of named crashing. But I still need more to ensure The Big Hosting Provider isn't blocking 53 UDP in/out of my box at their firewall, or that the whole world's DNS isn't down / DDoS'd (don't laugh, I've seen a few times where several root NS's were being DDoS'd).
Thanks for all the ideas guys!