Thankfully I work for a company that understands how important DNS is. However, the buzz has been "upgrade everything immediately because the Internet is going to stop working". If you upgrade everything to -P1 you have the potential for all of your redundancy to be crashing as well. -- -Ben Croswell
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Alan Clegg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ben Croswell wrote: > > I am not saying burn ISC at the stake by any stretch of the imagination, > but > > I think your comment about people not dying if a nameserver is down is a > > little understating things. Perhaps in your DNS environment servers > > crashing and being unable to resolve is not a big deal, but I bet a lot > of > > the folks here who run DNS for large organizations would beg to differ. > I think that DNS redundancy is something that people might have put on > the back burner in the past. > > Perhaps this exercise, along with bringing up some issues with staying > current will also get people to reconsider how important DNS is and how > they should re-structure their network to provide redundancy. > > Perhaps. > > AlanC > > > >
