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Re: Reliable Cloud host ?
From: Randy Carpenter <rcarpen () network1 net>
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 12:36:00 -0500 (EST)
Pardon the weird question: Is the DNS service authoritative or recursive? If auth, you can solve this a few ways, either by giving the DNS name people point to multiple AAAA (and A) records pointing at a diverse set of instances.
Authoritative. But, also not the only thing that we are running that needs some geographic and route diversity.
DNS is designed to work around a host being down. Same goes for MX and several other services. While it may make the service slightly slower, it's certainly not the end of the world.
Oh, how I wish this were true in practice. If I had a dollar for every time we had serious issues because one of a few authoritative DNS servers was not responding... OK, I wouldn't be rich, but this happens all the time. Caching servers out on the net get a "non-answer" because the server they chose to ask was down, and it caches that. They shouldn't do that, but they do, and there's nothing that can be done about it. -Randy
Current thread:
- Re: Reliable Cloud host ?, (continued)
- Re: Reliable Cloud host ? Paul Graydon (Feb 27)
- Re: Reliable Cloud host ? William Herrin (Feb 27)
- Re: Reliable Cloud host ? George Herbert (Feb 27)
- Re: Reliable Cloud host ? Jimmy Hess (Feb 29)
- RE: Reliable Cloud host ? Jason Gurtz (Feb 27)
- Re: Reliable Cloud host ? David Miller (Feb 27)
- Re: Reliable Cloud host ? Randy Carpenter (Feb 27)