Service Upgrade

Alibaba Cloud DNS System Upgrade

Sep 15, 2022

Alibaba Cloud DNS
Upgrade time: Beijing Time 00:00 on Sep 21, 2022 - Beijing Time 23:59 on Sep 23, 2022


Upgrade content: In order to improve the precision of identifying overseas countries/regions, some countries/regions are re-grouped into specific continental lines from the existing "overseas" line.

Note: In this upgrade, only some countries/regions are re-grouped into specific continental lines, and no new countries/regions lines are added. The involved countries/regions include:
Asia: Armenia, British Indian Ocean Territory, Northern Mariana Islands
Europe: Kosovo, Swaba and Jan Mayen, Faroe Islands, Vatican City, Gibraltar, Aland Islands, Guernsey, Isle of Man, Andorra, Jersey, Bosnia and Herzegovina, SAN Marino
North America: Martinique, American Samoa, turks and caicos islands, saint Pierre and miquelon, curacao, the British virgin islands, the islands of Barbados, Nicaragua, st. Lucia, Bermuda, Greenland, Belize, saint kitts and nevis, st. Vincent and the grenadines, Dominic, antigua and barbuda, Montserrat, French Saint Martin, El Salvador, Anguilla, Saint Barthelemy, Aruba, Bahamas, Dutch Saint Martin, U.S. Virgin Islands, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Trinidad and Tobago, Guatemala, Puerto Rico
South America: Guyana, Falkland Islands, Dutch Caribbean, Suriname, French Guiana
Africa: Burkina Faso, Benin, Republic of Congo, SAO Tome and Principe, Guinea-Bissau, Gambia, Malawi, Cape Verde, Mali, Burundi, Libya, Eswatini, Mauritania, Reunion Island, Mayotte, Djibouti, Niger, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sierra Leone, Chad, Lesotho, Somalia, Liberia, Eritrea, Comoros
Oceania: Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, New Caledonia, Tuvalu, French Polynesia, Nauru, Samoa, Norfolk Island, Guam, Tokelau, Kiribati, Vanuatu, Small Outer Islands, Christmas Island, Cook Islands, Tonga, Wallis and Futuna Islands, Niue


Impact of the upgrade:
After this upgrade, the resolution result of the domain name in the above countries/regions lines will change from the "overseas" line (if configured) or the default line (if configured) to the "continent" line (if configured). The resolution result is more accurate.


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