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On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 05:30:12PM +0000, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: > > On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, Simon Waters wrote: > > > > > On Saturday 07 Jan 2006 02:54, you wrote: > > > > > > While it's tempting to make fun of Qwest here, variations on this theme - > > > > I do agree the management issue with DNS are far harder, and here longer TTL > > are a double edged sword. But it is hard to design a system where the > > mistakes don't propagate to every DNS server, although some of the common > > tools do make it easier to check things are okay before updates are unleased. > > What's interesting to me, atleast, is that this is about the 5th time > someone has said similar things in the last 6 months: "DNS is harder than > I thought it was" (or something along that line...) > > So, do most folks think: > 1) get domain-name > 2) get 2 machines for DNS servers > 3) put ips in TLD system and roll! > > It seems like maybe that is all too common. Are the 'best practices' > documented for Authoritative DNS somewhere central? Are they just not well > publicized? Do registrars offer this information for end-users/clients? Do > they show how their hosted solutions are better/works/in-compliance-with > these best practices? (worldnic comes to mind) > > Should this perhaps be better documented and presented at a future NANOG > meeting? (and thus placed online in presentation format) > > -Chris IETF tech transfer failure... see RFC 2870 (mislabled as root-server) for TLD zone machine best practices from several years ago... for even older guidelines ... RFC 1219. --bill
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