[132112] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Register.com DNS outages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (esanborn@tsd-inc.com)
Mon Nov 15 08:08:00 2010
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 08:08:45 -0500
From: <esanborn@tsd-inc.com>
To: <ml@kenweb.org>,
<nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Possibly, although register.com does not allow this. Maybe other DNS
hosting companies do...
-----Original Message-----
From: ML [mailto:ml@kenweb.org]=20
Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2010 10:59 PM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Register.com DNS outages
On 11/14/2010 10:20 PM, John Lightfoot wrote:
> My company uses register.com for DNS hosting and we were hit by its=20
> troubles this weekend. I know there are companies that offer backup=20
> DNS services, but those seem to be aimed at companies that host their=20
> 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=20
> 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=20
>> register.com has? How does one protect against DDOS?
>
> You can outsource your DNS, but you better retain a server locally on=20
> 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?
