>>I host my own primary nameserver here. My question then, is, how is the
>>best way to handle a quick tranfer of DNS?
>>  The backup ISP would provide
>>us with several static IP addresses, however, all our DNS points to our
>>current addressing scheme.

ESPECIALLY if you are an ISP (i.e. 100s if not 1000s of people are PAYING
you for reliable access), you need to be running BGP or a comparable
external routing protocol with at least two different backbone providers.

All other solutions will leave your customers in 'limbo' while waiting for
you to drive to the office or remote access in and 'switch stuff over to the
backup'.  Your customers become the christmas tree lights "when one goes
out, they all go out"

BGP, assuming you have picked decent upstream providers, allows you to route
your IP blocks from both upstream ISPs across both ISP's networks.  Outages
result in (almost) immediate routing updates - your users don't notice much
at all assuming proper network design on your part.

- Tony


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