Announcing Virtual DNS: DDoS Mitigation and Global Distribution for DNS Traffic

This post introduces Virtual DNS, an authoritative DNS proxy service that extends Cloudflare's DDoS mitigation and global distribution capabilities to any organization's DNS nameservers. It acts as an edge cache for DNS responses, reducing load on origin nameservers, and filters malicious traffic before it reaches the origin. It also masks origin IP addresses and provides continued DNS resolution even if the origin nameserver is offline, leveraging Cloudflare's edge network for performance and resilience.