Good afternoon, Everyone, I would appreciate some suggestions or practices that people out there have implemented regarding DNS and ISP backups. Feel free to email me off list if this thread gets too long and tedious.
Right before Christmas, our ISP went out of business without telling anyone. Our whole class C IP address block that we had used for years went off into cyberspace and we were literally left dead in a water. It's an experience that neither myself or my boss ever wants to repeat! Now the that initial crises is over, we are discussing ways to prevent this sort of total outage. Our company is willing to spend the extra bucks and obtain a "backup" internet provider. I host my own primary nameserver here. My question then, is, how is the best way to handle a quick tranfer of DNS? The backup ISP would provide us with several static IP addresses, however, all our DNS points to our current addressing scheme. Is there a way to register a "virtual" primary nameserver (we use Network Solutions) but not have it active? Has anyone else put this sort of backup plan into effect successfully? Just having the backup provider would help, but we would still experience a lot of downtime until the rest of the world knew how to get in touch with us. If anyone has ever used Network Solutions before, you will know that changing an IP address of a primary nameserver when you don't have internet access is worse than undergoing a full background investigation by the FBI. Fri afternoon food for thought. Thanks in advance, and like I said, feel free to email me off list. Sharyn We are the worldwide producer and marketer of the award winning Cruzan Single Barrel Rum, judged "Best in the World" at the annual San Francisco Wine and Spirits Championships. For more information, please click (go to) <html><a href="http://www.cruzanrums.com";>www.cruzanrums.com</a></html> To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
