[34417] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How common is lack of DNS server diversity?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Mon Feb 5 17:06:41 2001
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
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To: "Tony Rall" <trall@almaden.ibm.com>
Cc: Shawn McMahon <smcmahon@eiv.com>, nanog@merit.edu
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Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 16:34:26 +0100
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> Several folks have mentioned that they don't see a problem with dns
> failure caused by an inability to reach all of the nameservers for a
> domain - because presumably clients won't be able to reach any of the
> hosts in that domain.
lesson: if you are multi-homed, don't let a dns-risky provider hold your
data, don't get two dns-risky providers, ...
then again, if you have enough clue to multi-home, there is hope that you
have enough clue to provide your own dns service and diversely.
randy
