On Friday, April 16, 2004, 5:10:50 PM, Raymond Dijkxhoorn wrote: >> As one can have multiple NS entries for a zone, DNS has some degree of >> built in diversity limiting the impact of a box being dead or >> unavailable for a period of time. My server is not dependent upon Bill >> Stearns' being up, only that I can continue to rsync frequently for >> updates, and even if I can't rsync, I can still serve whatever I last >> grabbed. >> >> As long as you have sufficient variation in your name servers registered >> with the root name servers, anyone wanting to DDOS SURBL would have to >> hit a large number of boxes.
> That, combined with views in the rootservers for the surbl.org domain can > be nice to have. Like Clamav mirrors currently work. Depending on the > source IP you get a set op nameservers listed. Based mostly on geographic > locations. OK This sounds like I should be asking our secondaries to carry the surbl.org parent domain also, right? Then I would update the root name servers to list all of them. Please comment, Jeff C.
