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Re: QWest is having some pretty nice DNS issues right now

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Waters)
Tue Jan 10 04:13:10 2006

From: Simon Waters <simonw@zynet.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 09:15:14 +0000
In-Reply-To: <010a01c61533$d5f9a160$031ea8c0@thelt>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


On Monday 09 Jan 2006 15:46, you wrote:
> What do you mean by "the  authoritative name servers on different logical
> networks."

Whatever the logical division of IP routing is. 

On the internet this is usually AS number, but the network engineers might 
know of linkages between different networks at the same organisation. So it 
is probably wise to host one DNS server somewhere completely unrelated - 
different IX, different continent etc.

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