[87962] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: GoDaddy.com shuts down entire data center?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Hannigan)
Sun Jan 15 21:04:57 2006
From: Martin Hannigan <hannigan@world.std.com>
To: jabley@isc.org (Joe Abley)
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 21:00:47 -0500 (EST)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu (Nanog), esavage@digitalrage.org (Elijah Savage)
In-Reply-To: <4387CD25-C778-4DC6-8058-F6AEB32E32DF@isc.org> from "Joe Abley" at Jan 15, 2006 08:38:52 PM
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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> On 15-Jan-2006, at 18:15, Elijah Savage wrote:
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> > Any validatity to this and if so I am suprised that our team has
> > got no calls on not be able to get to certain websites.
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> > http://webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=477562
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> I think the main thing I learned from that is that there are a
> surprising number of hosting companies and self-professed data centre
> operators who really don't know much about the DNS.
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The GoDaddy guy didn't do such a bad job. It sounds like they had
some procedures and they followed them.
http://marc.perkel.com/audio/godaddy.mp3
Operationally, not having someone on the shift who can make
decisions is not a good thing. It's like having a NOC with
no shift supervisor. If you're big enough - a manager.
Disclaimer: In now way, shape, or form, should that be inferred as
a plug for or against GoDaddy. I'm nuetral.
Best!
-M<
