At 08:50 21/11/2000 +0000, Peter Gradwell wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Nominet is the .uk. Domain name Registry and I am part of it's policy advisory
>group. A bunch of people who attempt to say wise things when asked difficult
>questions. We have recently been asked by Nominet to give advice on the
>placement
>of the secondary name servers for the .uk domain name.
2 or so thoughts that don't seem to have surfaced yet:
- nameservers generally get selected on RTT.
This means that the only benefit of 2 servers within a short RTT of each
other is redundancy/load balancing.
- the US and EU are close together in RTT. EU and Asia are not.
Neither is Eastern Europe terribly close to West Europe, for that matter.
- Placing servers *on* exchange LANs is an awful idea, because a cracked
server there has entirely too much power. Think BGP session stealing.
Placing one *next to* an exchange LAN is to my mind a Good Thing.
My thoughts....
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