Re: Website questions/conserns

done, thanks for the reminder ...

On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Larry Rosenman wrote:

> Yes there are 2ndary's out of hub's space. I run 2 of them:
>
> $ dig @ns-a.lerctr.org postgresql.org ns
>
> ; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> @ns-a.lerctr.org postgresql.org ns
> ; (1 server found)
> ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
> ;; got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 49993
> ;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 5, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 3
> ;; QUERY SECTION:
> ;; postgresql.org, type = NS, class = IN
>
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> postgresql.org. 5M IN NS ns-a.lerctr.org.
> postgresql.org. 5M IN NS ns-b.lerctr.org.
> postgresql.org. 5M IN NS ns.hub.org.
> postgresql.org. 5M IN NS ns2.hub.org.
> postgresql.org. 5M IN NS ns3.hub.org.
>
> ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
> ns-a.lerctr.org. 1D IN A 192.147.25.11
> ns-a.lerctr.org. 1D IN A 207.158.72.11
> ns-b.lerctr.org. 1D IN A 207.158.72.45
>
> ;; Total query time: 30 msec
> ;; FROM: lerlaptop-red.iadfw.net to SERVER: 207.158.72.11
> ;; WHEN: Tue Jul 22 14:13:41 2003
> ;; MSG SIZE sent: 32 rcvd: 182
>
> $
>
> They just aren't in the roots.
>
> Marc: Can we update the registrations to show me in the roots as well?
>
> LER
>
>
> --On Tuesday, July 22, 2003 19:10:15 +0000 greg(at)turnstep(dot)com wrote:
>
> >
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> >
> >> Actually, we do have secondary DNS servers setup already ... but if the
> >> main zone file gets hosed and the secondary pulls down that hosed file,
> >> it doesn't do any good now, does it? :) No amount of redundancy in DNS
> >> can compensate for that ...
> >
> > The idea of a secondary DNS server is that if the main server goes down
> > (or the whole subnet), people can still reach the rest of the
> > *.postgresql.org domains (especially the mirrors). It also looks as
> > though there are still no secondary DNS servers set up for
> > postgresql.org, where "secondary" means a server not in the same subnet
> > or geographical area. It would be nice to see another server set up;
> > myself and others have an outstanding offer to help do this.
> >
> > - --
> > Greg Sabino Mullane greg(at)turnstep(dot)com
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Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy
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