[20850] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: root name servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com)
Wed Oct 28 16:54:58 1998
From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
To: SEAN@SDG.DRA.COM (Sean Donelan)
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 12:36:12 -0800 (PST)
Cc: phil@whistler.intur.net, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <981028140142.164f8@SDG.DRA.COM> from "Sean Donelan" at Oct 28, 98 02:01:42 pm
> It is important to have both. You don't want all your name servers
> sitting in the same rack (plugged into the same 6-socket electric cord),
> nor do you want all your name servers sitting on the same subnet. It
> doesn't matter how many you have, if they all go away due to the same
> problem.
>
>
> $ whois intur.net
>
> Registrant:
> Inturnet, Inc. (INTUR-DOM)
> 811 Alpha Drive Suite 331
> Richardson, TX 75081
> USA
>
> Domain Name: INTUR.NET
>
> [...]
>
> Domain servers in listed order:
>
> NS1.INTUR.NET 206.97.151.9
> NS2.INTUR.NET 206.97.151.8
> NS3.INTUR.NET 206.97.151.14
> NS4.INTUR.NET 206.97.151.15
>
> --
> Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO
> Affiliation given for identification not representation
Sean,
You neglect to note that these are likely topologically diverse
and passed around as host routes.... :) Either that or they are virtual
interfaces on the same box... :)
