All valid points, and of course you're correct.
Sorry ... it's been a busy day ;)
Charles Daminato
OpenSRS Product Manager
Tucows Inc. - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Taco Scargo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: May 29, 2001 3:31 PM
> To: Charles Daminato; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: OpenSRS Update - 05/29/01
>
>
> Charles, I need to correct you on this topic
>
> > Good point - however, due to the nature of our outage, secondary
> nameservers
> > would not have made any difference.
> It actually would ! (see below)
>
> > You would just have been able to resolve hosts that you could
> verify were
> unavailable ;)
> And therefore e.g. e-mail servers would not bounce e-mails 'because the
> domain does not exist', but have it queued because the mail
> exchanger would
> not be reachable. Also this would have allowed you to redirect any
> webtraffic to a 'network down' page giving status updates etc.
>
> Another issue is that nobody could reach http://www.opensrs.net/.emerg/ to
> page you... so maybe it would be wise you host this service on a different
> machine, at a different location
>
> > Moving our domains to secondary nameservers at a different geographical
> > location is in the works and will be completed shortly.
>
> ;)
>
> Good luck !
>
> Taco Scargo
>
>
