[87754] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: QWest is having some pretty nice DNS issues right now
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com)
Mon Jan 9 12:41:05 2006
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 17:40:33 +0000
From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
To: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@mci.com>
Cc: Simon Waters <simonw@zynet.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0601091726420.20032@marvin.argfrp.us.uu.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 05:30:12PM +0000, Christopher L. Morrow wrote:
>
> On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, Simon Waters wrote:
>
> >
> > On Saturday 07 Jan 2006 02:54, you wrote:
> > >
> > > While it's tempting to make fun of Qwest here, variations on this theme -
> >
> > I do agree the management issue with DNS are far harder, and here longer TTL
> > are a double edged sword. But it is hard to design a system where the
> > mistakes don't propagate to every DNS server, although some of the common
> > tools do make it easier to check things are okay before updates are unleased.
>
> What's interesting to me, atleast, is that this is about the 5th time
> someone has said similar things in the last 6 months: "DNS is harder than
> I thought it was" (or something along that line...)
>
> So, do most folks think:
> 1) get domain-name
> 2) get 2 machines for DNS servers
> 3) put ips in TLD system and roll!
>
> It seems like maybe that is all too common. Are the 'best practices'
> documented for Authoritative DNS somewhere central? Are they just not well
> publicized? Do registrars offer this information for end-users/clients? Do
> they show how their hosted solutions are better/works/in-compliance-with
> these best practices? (worldnic comes to mind)
>
> Should this perhaps be better documented and presented at a future NANOG
> meeting? (and thus placed online in presentation format)
>
> -Chris
IETF tech transfer failure... see RFC 2870 (mislabled as
root-server) for TLD zone machine best practices from several
years ago... for even older guidelines ... RFC 1219.
--bill
