Possibly, although register.com does not allow this. Maybe other DNS hosting companies do... -----Original Message----- From: ML [mailto:ml@kenweb.org] Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2010 10:59 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Register.com DNS outages On 11/14/2010 10:20 PM, John Lightfoot wrote:
My company uses register.com for DNS hosting and we were hit by its troubles this weekend. I know there are companies that offer backup DNS services, but those seem to be aimed at companies that host their own DNS, which we're not really interested in doing at this time. Are
there mainstream DNS hosting companies that allow customers to use a second company for their backup DNS? Does register.com allow this?
-----Original Message----- From: Florian Weimer [mailto:fw@deneb.enyo.de] Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2010 1:49 PM To: Brandon Kim Cc: nanog group Subject: Re: Register.com DNS outages
* Brandon Kim:
Times like this, makes you curious what kind of infrastructure register.com has? How does one protect against DDOS?
You can outsource your DNS, but you better retain a server locally on your network, so that you suffer less from that particular shared toothbrush.
From the POV of someone who has never used an outsourced DNS service... Is there a reason you couldn't run a hidden master or two that replicates to slaves at one or more outsourced DNS hosts?