The servers behind your zones
Two authoritative name servers, named after the people who invented the DNS.
Your zones are served by paul and jon — a hidden-primary/secondary pair on separate networks and continents, kept in sync automatically.
paul & jon
Both answer authoritatively for every hosted zone, on two independent locations.
Named after Paul Mockapetris, who designed the original Domain Name System in 1983.
Named after Jon Postel, long-time RFC Editor and steward of the early Internet and IANA.
A small tribute to the inventors of the DNS
We named our name servers after two people without whom the DNS would not exist as we know it.
Paul Mockapetris
Paul Mockapetris designed the Domain Name System and wrote the original specifications (RFC 882/883, later replaced by RFC 1034/1035). His design replaced the single, hand-maintained HOSTS.TXT file with a distributed, hierarchical naming system that still scales the Internet today.
Jon Postel
Jon Postel edited hundreds of RFCs, ran the IANA for decades and shaped the protocols and number/name allocation the Internet is built on. His pragmatic “be conservative in what you send, liberal in what you accept” is still quoted today.
A few technical details
Non-sensitive facts about how the authoritative DNS is operated.
Both servers run the PowerDNS authoritative engine with a database backend, driven by the same management API.
paul is the hidden primary; jon receives every change via authenticated zone transfer, so answers stay consistent across both locations.
Zones can be signed online with managed KSK/ZSK keys; matching DS records are provided for your registrar.
Every server answers over IPv4 and IPv6 on port 53 (UDP and TCP) with EDNS0 support for larger responses.
Zone changes and optional dynamic DNS updates are protected with TSIG keys, so only the platform can modify a zone.
New zones are delegated to paul.dremaxx.de and jon.dremaxx.de; you can add your own additional name servers on top.
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