Re: DNS availability
Christian Nielsen <cnielsen@nielsen.net> wrote:
ultradns does this and has a great product.
Interesting to read the faq on UltraDNS's website:
Q. I read that your service is supposed to make use of several servers all over the world, but you only give people two server addresses to provide to their registrar. How do I make use of all the other servers?
A. The two server addresses you supply your registrar when you set up a domain on the Managed DNS Service system are actually 'virtual' addresses that will route to the best possible server on our network, based on a number of factors. This highly intelligent mechanism allows you to achieve full redundancy and reliability with only two name server addresses actually listed. In fact, if the registrar would allow you to do so, you could achieve the same level of reliability with only one name server address.
Looks to me like most of their hiring lately has been in marketing and business-dev. How could an engineer make statements like the above with a straight face? Or maybe there have been a few extensions to BGP which I haven't learned about...;-) -rich
richb@pioneer.ci.net wrote:
Q. I read that your service is supposed to make use of several servers all over the world, but you only give people two server addresses to provide to their registrar. How do I make use of all the other servers?
A. The two server addresses you supply your registrar when you set up a domain on the Managed DNS Service system are actually 'virtual' addresses that will route to the best possible server on our network, based on a number of factors. This highly intelligent mechanism allows you to achieve full redundancy and reliability with only two name server addresses actually listed. In fact, if the registrar would allow you to do so, you could achieve the same level of reliability with only one name server address.
Looks to me like most of their hiring lately has been in marketing and business-dev. How could an engineer make statements like the above with a straight face?
Or maybe there have been a few extensions to BGP which I haven't learned about...;-)
Quite possibly. Which part of this is confusing to you? -- Rodney Joffe CenterGate Research Group, LLC. http://www.centergate.com "Technology so advanced, even we don't understand it!"(R)
> Or maybe there have been a few extensions to BGP which I haven't > learned about...;-) It isn't BGP that you haven't learned about, it's just routing. Specifically, you're making the unwarranted assumption that people are advertising the unique addresses of machines, rather than the non-unique addresses of services. -Bill
participants (3)
-
Bill Woodcock -
richb＠pioneer.ci.net -
Rodney Joffe