[128792] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Numbering nameservers and resolvers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Mon Aug 16 09:11:01 2010
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100816130336.GA703173@hiwaay.net>
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 06:08:02 -0700
To: Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
Cc: North American Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Aug 16, 2010, at 6:03 AM, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Patrick W. Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net> said:
>> 1) Use different prefixes. A single prefix going down should not kill
>> your entire network. (Nameservers and resolvers being unreachable
>> breaks the whole Internet as far as users are concerned.)
>
> How do you do this in the IPv6 world, where I get a single /32? Will
> others accept announcements of two /33s to better handle things like
> this?
>
The better solution is to trade secondary services with some other
provider. Sure, it's a bit of a pain keeping up with the new zones
to be added and old zones to be removed back and forth, but, it's
a great way to have your authoritative servers truly diverse and
independent.
Owen
