[132107] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Register.com DNS outages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ML)
Sun Nov 14 22:59:07 2010
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 22:58:58 -0500
From: ML <ml@kenweb.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On 11/14/2010 10:20 PM, John Lightfoot wrote:
> 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.
From the POV of someone who has never used an outsourced DNS service...
Is there a reason you couldn't run a hidden master or two that
replicates to slaves at one or more outsourced DNS hosts?
