We use UltraDNS, www.ultradns.com<http://www.ultradns.com>.  They have DNS 
servers placed around the world.  Not sure of price, I do not handle that part 
of it.  They do have some nice features though.  We have used them for just 
over a year now and have had no issues.  Worth a look.


Regards,
Mark Kelsay


From: Mike Sullivan [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: 31 August 2011 16:10
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: When DNS for your ISP goes down...

Yesterday I stayed home since I was sick and I still am not 100% (I promise not 
to cough on you) when I start getting calls from my users saying they cannot 
reach our Citrix servers and web based email. So I try from home and sure 
enough, I cannot connect either. I also tried our main website to see it is not 
reachable as well. I try and nslookup only to find we no longer exist. OK, I 
call the ISP and tell them we are no longer on their DNS servers. The tech on 
the other end looks up our account and wants to know who we are using as our 
DNS provider. I bite my tongue so I don't just say "we use you stupid" and tell 
him we are on the o1.com<http://o1.com> name servers. He responds "who is 
o1.com<http://o1.com>?" I bite my tongue harder, you purchased them last year! 
He is now very confused by this whole situation and gives me a ticket number 
and says he will have someone call me back when they get this sorted out. Great.

Two hours pass with no call back so I call them back only to find they still do 
not know what is wrong. Really? Come on now! I want to go to bed and get 
better. To cut this story short it took them 7 hours from the time I opened the 
ticket to resolution. We ended up on new name servers still on 
o1.com<http://o1.com>. I wonder why they didn't move our stuff to TelePacific's 
name servers? They did say this was not just us so I think something happened 
to their name servers  and they built new ones. We never had problems when 
o1.com<http://o1.com> was their own company. So far, I am not impressed by 
TelePacific.

I do actually have a question here. Was there anything I could have done to get 
us up and running?

--
Thank you,
Mike Sullivan


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