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Re: DNS anycasting - multiple DNS servers on same subnet Vs registrar/registry policies
From: Randy Bush <randy () psg com>
Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 15:13:33 +0900
It is more important that a domain registrar not refuse to register a domain, or erroneously declare a valid listing invalid. The purpose of using a registrar is to establish DNS delegation, not to validate your site's redundancy meets the absolute best possible practices for fault tolerance.
just for my curiosity, where do you draw the line for technical compliance? do the servers need to serve the zone? does the served zone need to have the same NS RRset as the request and hence parent? do the servers need to be able to answer compliant dns queries? over tcp too? your first paragraph quoted above would seem to say that none of this is needed. the registrar's job is to stick the delegation in the parent zone and actually functioning name service be damned. randy, a naggumite
Current thread:
- DNS anycasting - multiple DNS servers on same subnet Vs registrar/registry policies Anurag Bhatia (May 28)
- Re: DNS anycasting - multiple DNS servers on same subnet Vs registrar/registry policies David Conrad (May 28)
- Re: DNS anycasting - multiple DNS servers on same subnet Vs registrar/registry policies Jimmy Hess (May 28)
- Re: DNS anycasting - multiple DNS servers on same subnet Vs registrar/registry policies Randy Bush (May 28)
- Re: DNS anycasting - multiple DNS servers on same subnet Vs registrar/registry policies David Conrad (May 29)
- Re: DNS anycasting - multiple DNS servers on same subnet Vs registrar/registry policies Jimmy Hess (May 28)
- Re: DNS anycasting - multiple DNS servers on same subnet Vs registrar/registry policies Tony Finch (May 28)
- Re: DNS anycasting - multiple DNS servers on same subnet Vs registrar/registry policies Anurag Bhatia (May 28)
- Re: DNS anycasting - multiple DNS servers on same subnet Vs registrar/registry policies Patrick W. Gilmore (May 28)
- Re: DNS anycasting - multiple DNS servers on same subnet Vs registrar/registry policies Anurag Bhatia (May 28)
- Re: DNS anycasting - multiple DNS servers on same subnet Vs registrar/registry policies Randy Bush (May 28)
- Re: DNS anycasting - multiple DNS servers on same subnet Vs registrar/registry policies Anurag Bhatia (May 28)
- Re: DNS anycasting - multiple DNS servers on same subnet Vs registrar/registry policies David Conrad (May 28)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: DNS anycasting - multiple DNS servers on same subnet Vs registrar/registry policies Stephane Bortzmeyer (May 28)
- Re: DNS anycasting - multiple DNS servers on same subnet Vs registrar/registry policies Brett Frankenberger (May 28)
- Re: DNS anycasting - multiple DNS servers on same subnet Vs registrar/registry policies Mikkel Mondrup Kristensen (May 28)
- Re: DNS anycasting - multiple DNS servers on same subnet Vs registrar/registry policies Mark Andrews (May 28)
- Re: DNS anycasting - multiple DNS servers on same subnet Vs registrar/registry policies Brett Frankenberger (May 28)