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Re: NSI policy on lame delagations
From: "Steven J. Sobol" <sjsobol () nacs net>
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:53:16 -0500
On Sat, Nov 21, 1998 at 10:17:49AM -0800, Michael Dillon wrote:
On the other hand, maybe there is another solution. Don't put all your eggs in one basket. Run at least two nameservers.
This is a no-brainer. 1. If you're running only a primary and no secondaries, your DNS is an accident waiting to happen. 2. You're required to have at least two nameservers operational for each domain anyhow. This is true of the InterNIC, it's true of USC-ISI (the .US TLD), and I'm sure it's true of the foreign registries too. If you ARE running at least one secondary, it can pick up the slack while the primary is relaoding.
Add all new domains to a nameserver that has a small enough number of zones that it can easily handle being reloaded every hour. Then every week, transfer them all to your HUMUNGO server.
And I think this is an excellent idea. -- Steve Sobol [sjsobol () nacs net] Part-time Support Droid [support () nacs net] NACS Spaminator [abuse () nacs net] Spotted on a bumper sticker: "Possum. The other white meat."
Current thread:
- Re: NSI policy on lame delagations, (continued)
- Re: NSI policy on lame delagations Randy Bush (Nov 21)
- Re: NSI policy on lame delagations Steven J. Sobol (Nov 21)
- Re: NSI policy on lame delagations Jon Lewis (Nov 21)
- Re: NSI policy on lame delagations Mike Leber (Nov 21)
- Re: NSI policy on lame delagations Randy Bush (Nov 21)
- Re: NSI policy on lame delagations Mike Leber (Nov 21)
- Re: NSI policy on lame delagations Jon Zeeff (Nov 21)
- Re: NSI policy on lame delagations Paul Vixie (Nov 21)
- Re: NSI policy on lame delagations Randy Bush (Nov 21)
- Re: NSI policy on lame delagations Michael Dillon (Nov 21)
- Re: NSI policy on lame delagations Steven J. Sobol (Nov 21)
- Re: NSI policy on lame delagations Michael Dillon (Nov 21)
- Re: NSI policy on lame delagations Steven J. Sobol (Nov 21)
- Re: NSI policy on lame delagations Roeland M.J. Meyer (Nov 21)
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- Re: NSI policy on lame delagations Jay R. Ashworth (Nov 21)
- Re: NSI policy on lame delagations bmanning (Nov 21)
- Re: NSI policy on lame delagations Paul Vixie (Nov 22)
- Re: NSI policy on lame delagations Vadim Antonov (Nov 22)
- Re: NSI policy on lame delagations Paul A Vixie (Nov 23)
- Re: NSI policy on lame delagations Jon Zeeff (Nov 23)
- Re: NSI policy on lame delagations jmalcolm (Nov 23)