On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, Jared Mauch wrote:
Most "real" providers have diverse nameservers. For them, this is not a problem, but for the other 99% of domains that are delegated, they have their nameservers on the same ethernet segment.
Domain Name: MONICALEWINSKI.COM
Domain servers in listed order:
ZORK.TIAC.NET 199.0.65.2 SUNDOG.TIAC.NET 199.0.65.9
This means once your /24 drops from routing, you have no primary nor secondary nameservice.
Whelp I used to work for that company - and I know that 199.0.65.0/24 is on a FDDI ring shared by 2 7507's and all common services are on that ring - each 7507 has a HSSI with a DS3 to different exchanges to UUNET - so you're right if UUNET goes down then it is dead - I know the 2 DS3's terminate diferently but they will be down if UUNET is... -- I am nothing if not net-Q! - ras@poppa.thick.net