DNS
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* secondary: gunther.bomis.com | * secondary: gunther.bomis.com | ||
| + | : Both of which are on-site and on the same physical net. Recommend, especially in light of the recent outage, that we look into offsite secondary DNS. This could be tradeout, or squid site, but we might ought to consider places like http://www.secondarydns.com/ as well. I know the guy who runs that; he's a NANOG regular, and knows what he's doing, and might well be able to reasonable secondary GeoDNS as well. At the least, we'd have something we could point at the offsite "crash page" when we go down next time, that would still be resolvable. How fast we could switch delegation to it depends mostly on our domain registrar. I have had good results with DomainDiscover, if anyone's interested. And they will *do* the DNS, possibly including secondary. At the very least, they'd make it easy to redirect in near-real-time in outage situations. --Baylink | ||
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Revision as of 18:27, 24 February 2005
wikipedia.org:
- primary: zwinger.wikipedia.org
- secondary: gunther.bomis.com
- Both of which are on-site and on the same physical net. Recommend, especially in light of the recent outage, that we look into offsite secondary DNS. This could be tradeout, or squid site, but we might ought to consider places like http://www.secondarydns.com/ as well. I know the guy who runs that; he's a NANOG regular, and knows what he's doing, and might well be able to reasonable secondary GeoDNS as well. At the least, we'd have something we could point at the offsite "crash page" when we go down next time, that would still be resolvable. How fast we could switch delegation to it depends mostly on our domain registrar. I have had good results with DomainDiscover, if anyone's interested. And they will *do* the DNS, possibly including secondary. At the very least, they'd make it easy to redirect in near-real-time in outage situations. --Baylink
wikimedia.org:
- ns19a.nameservers.net and ns19b.nameservers.net (GoDaddy?)
- registrant is Daniel Mayer but he appears not to have access
- where do requests for configuration changes go?
- wikimedia.org zone file (for reference; may not be up to date)
- 207.142.131 zone file (for reference; may not be up to date)
