Re: Who admins DNS?

On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, Andrew Sullivan wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 11:29:36AM +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> If we can look forward to some further info and possible help from such
>> DNS experts, I see no reason why we shouldn't wait. So, please let us
>> know when you're there.
>
> So, I spoke to my boss about this.  He is an enthusiastic supporter.
>
> The project, on which I am currently working, involves a new set of
> high-availability DNS servers distributed around the world.  The
> first of them is slated to turn up very late in 2006.
>
> I anticipate that we should be able to offer a secondary master node,
> if people would like, some time early in 2007.  That is, it would act
> as an authoritative master, allowing zone transfers to other slaves
> if we desired.
>
> In the meantime, I'm prepared to act as another slave server.  The
> location I'm thinking of putting it has 30Mb connectivity, 12 hour
> battery and on-site generators; but I could put it somewhere with
> more bandwidth if people think that'd be necessary.

Right now, we are up to two in the UK, 3 in the US, 1 in Toronto and 3 in
Panama ... not sure where "yet another" would be ideally located ...

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