[132106] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Register.com DNS outages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Lightfoot)
Sun Nov 14 22:21:08 2010
From: "John Lightfoot" <jlightfoot@gmail.com>
To: "'nanog group'" <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <87mxpbagh4.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 22:20:52 -0500
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
My company uses register.com for DNS hosting and we were hit by its troubles
this weekend. I know there are companies that offer backup DNS services,
but those seem to be aimed at companies that host their own DNS, which we're
not really interested in doing at this time. Are there mainstream DNS
hosting companies that allow customers to use a second company for their
backup DNS? Does register.com allow this?
-----Original Message-----
From: Florian Weimer [mailto:fw@deneb.enyo.de]
Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2010 1:49 PM
To: Brandon Kim
Cc: nanog group
Subject: Re: Register.com DNS outages
* Brandon Kim:
> Times like this, makes you curious what kind of infrastructure
> register.com has? How does one protect against DDOS?
You can outsource your DNS, but you better retain a server locally on your
network, so that you suffer less from that particular shared toothbrush.
