ISC statement about BIND9's recent -P1 releases

[Ben Croswell]

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 <Alan_Clegg at isc.org> 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
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