[Imc-aotearoa-tech] Re: Backup DNS

[Andrew McNaughton]

I've been quite closely involved in working with CAT on the recent
changes, particularly the DNS bits.

CAT's dns issues have settled down considerably, but for the time being
we're actually running indymedia.org.nz of servers at easydns.com
(Commercial service, but the first 5 domains are free).

CAT's nearly got the moving of servers and ISPs complete.  When that's
done, we'll move back to using their name servers.

Andrew


On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Danyl Strype wrote:

> Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 13:05:07 +1200
> From: Danyl Strype <strypey at riseup.net>
> To: imc-aotearoa-tech at indymedia.org
> Subject: [Imc-aotearoa-tech] Re: Backup DNS
>
> Kia ora koutou,
>
> Andrew, are you still on this list?
>
> I got this to a suggestion about back up DNS a few months ago and found it
> in a folder while I was responding to that list domains thread. I wonder
> if you (or Finn or anyone form CAT who've been dealing with DNS issues)
> might be able to advise them?
>
> RnB,
> Strypey
>
> Quoting Micah Anderson <micah at indymedia.org>:
>
> > Thanks for the message... DNS stuff should be sent to
> > dns at lists.indymedia.org, I am CC'ing this there.
> >
> > In response to your message... we do have backup/secondary DNS
> > servers, two of them in fact. What is not clear, or known by anyone in
> > particular, is how to properly do a secondary fail-over. In this
> > scenerio, one of the secondaries was out also, and it seemed as if
> > nobody would pick addresses from the terteriary server (becase it was
> > non-authoritative?).
> >
> > So we have thought of this, and have implemented it, to the best of
> > our knowledge, but we need to find a more smooth and better way to do
> > it, and we need someone to figure that out.
>
>
>

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