Ideal location of external DNS

[Brad Knowles]

At 2:25 PM -0400 5/31/01, Keith W. McCammon wrote:

>>  2. I need to figure out the most secure place to house the secondary
>>  external DNS server.
>
>  Request that your ISP act as a secondary for your domains.  This is the most
>  reliable way ensure that you don't have an outage (unless you have co-lo
>  space at a remote location, etc.).  Even if it's not free, the cost should
>  be minimal.

	Also keep in mind the free secondary service offered by 
Nominum/secondary.com.  They have a globally distributed set of 
nameservers in the GNS (Global Name Service), and if this is publicly 
accessible data, I can't imagine a better way to make the DNS service 
more robust.

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>

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