[1963] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Renumbering and the Feb 15-16 NANOG meeting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Zimmerman)
Tue Feb 20 14:34:19 1996
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 14:27:46 -0500 (EST)
From: Matt Zimmerman <mdz@netrail.net>
To: "Craig A. Huegen" <c-huegen@quad.quadrunner.com>
cc: Jon Zeeff <jon@branch.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960219194703.14547A-100000@quad.quadrunner.com>
On Mon, 19 Feb 1996, Craig A. Huegen wrote:
> > If this is that often, perhaps he should be doing his own secondary DNS.
> Even if you do your own secondary DNS, you still should have off-site
> backups 'just in case'.
From what I gather, the customers involved are downstream from
branch.com, and as such a backup there doesn't seem to be serving much
purpose. In the two most probable scenarios of unreachability:
1. branch.com has connectivity problems with the world: The "backup" servers
aren't reachable either.
2. Customer has connectivity problems with branch.com: The hosts to be
resolved probably aren't reachable anyway.
When it is necessary to maintain a backup nameserver on a network
administered by someone else, and frequent changes are required for
maintenance of said nameserver, a system would be necessary to oversee
such changes. I don't think that this situation is widespread enough to
justify standardization. Most of our customers here have one or two
domains, and rarely, if ever, add more (excepting the in-addr hierarchy,
but since we assign them address space anyway, we can't unload that part
of the duty).
// Matt Zimmerman Chief of System Management NetRail, Inc.
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