Re: Website questions/conserns

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 ...
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> 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.
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> - --
> Greg Sabino Mullane greg(at)turnstep(dot)com
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