[23583] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network Solutions is now in the wringer
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dean Robb)
Sat Mar 27 23:18:36 1999
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 22:43:45 -0500
To: Sean Donelan <SEAN@SDG.DRA.COM>
From: Dean Robb <pceasy@norfolk.infi.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <990327012246.32ac2@SDG.DRA.COM>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
At 01:22 3/27/99 -0600, Sean Donelan wrote:
>
>pceasy@norfolk.INfi.NET (Dean Robb) writes:
>>While not a network operator, I think it would be most prudent to consider
>>and discuss (among those who ARE netops) what do to if, say, the root
>>server were suddenly comletely unaccessible for several days/permanently
>>for *whatever* reason.
>
>Duh, isn't that why there is more than one root server in the world?
My concern is with the master server that NSI operates. My hope was that a
netop who *didn't* have a contingency plan might start putting one together.
>However I feel some people confuse the data in the root servers, with
>the databases used to generate those zone files. There is a subtle, but
>important difference. And why simply copying the zone files is not
>sufficient.
So who has copies of the databases? If NSI's master (the a-root?) is
unavailable, new domains obviously wouldn't propagate, but how long can the
other root servers go without getting an update? Does the system as
currently configured *require* some server somewhere to be the master and
is there one that can take over if NSI's are toast?
"Small minds can only contemplate small ideas".....Unknown
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