----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Warren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 2:06 AM Subject: Nameservers
> Welp, time to rename my DNS servers. yaay! > > I'm trying to decide on a naming scheme for the nameservers. I'm a good 'ol > fashioned "basement hosting company", and although my IP pools are > relatively static, I don't own my own block, and when one of my ISPs runs > into issues, I need the flexibility to move to another set of IPs relatively > quickly if needed. > > Is there any advantage/disadvantage to putting nameservers in .biz vs > .net? -- Our "primary" domain is a .biz and it would make sense to use > ns[1-3].primarydomain.biz, but I could just as easily use a .net domain > instead. Here is a story that might influence you: A friend of mines fairly large hosting company had two name servers base don the same .com domain. The domain was renewed for multiple years at "the original" .com registrar and the transaction went through. Then a year later the domain stopped resolving and so did his name servers. It turned out they had taken his money but not renewed the domain name. It caised severl days downtime while he battled to get the domain working again. He now has his secondary based on a .co.uk domain. We still use the same ,.com for our name servers but when I add ns3 and ns4 they will be based on .biz and .uk respectively to prevent a similar issue ever occuring. Also if you are naming web hsoting servers please come up with a better system than ours. I started by naming ours after colours of the rainbow thinking we would never have more than four or five servers. We now have more than 50. Its amazing how quickly we ran out of colours to name them after! We now have about four parallel naming schemes in operation including the classic serverXX.domain.com where XX is a number...... Regards Gordon Hudson Hostroute.com Ltd www.hostroute.net ------------------------------------------------
