On 18/01/2014 09:04, Patrick Lauer wrote: >> which could link to the >> > infra page would be good here perhaps, so when an outage occurred ( at >> > least on the web side ) appropriate links to infra could be given. > The more sane fix would be low DNS TTL and rotating DNS to a different > IP if things are down. > >
That is already in place: $ dig overlays.gentoo.org ; <<>> DiG 9.9.4 <<>> overlays.gentoo.org ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 49989 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1 ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION: ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4000 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;overlays.gentoo.org. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: overlays.gentoo.org. 600 IN CNAME spoonbill.gentoo.org. spoonbill.gentoo.org. 604800 IN A 81.93.255.5 5 minutes downtime max if a switch needs to be done. 5 minutes is perfectly acceptable IMHO -- Alan McKinnon [email protected]
