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Alibaba Cloud DNS:Recursive management

Last Updated:Feb 05, 2026

Alibaba Cloud provides a default, free recursive DNS resolution service for endpoints such as Elastic Compute Service (ECS) instances and cloud containers in virtual private clouds (VPCs). This recursive DNS service interacts with external third-party DNS systems. Alibaba Cloud does not guarantee an SLA for DNS unavailability caused by external network issues or failures of external third-party DNS services.

Limits

Limit

Limit Threshold

Total DNS queries per ECS instance in a VPC

5,000 queries/second

Total DNS queries from all ECS instances in a VPC

Unlimited

External recursive queries per ECS instance in a VPC

600 queries/second

Total external recursive queries from all ECS instances in a VPC

5,000 queries/second

Important

If you encounter rate limiting on external recursive DNS queries, enable cache reserve for high-traffic domain names. This keeps their DNS records cached for longer periods and prevents resolution failures due to rate limits. For more information, see Add a cache reserve domain name (FQDN).