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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: DNS availability
Christian Nielsen <[email protected]> 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
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