To:
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From:
Mans Nilsson <mansaxel@sunet.se>
Date:
Sun, 6 May 2001 16:27:03 +0200
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Subject:
Re: Avoiding outages during (large) zone reload [was: Re: gTLD server losses]
Subject: Re: Avoiding outages during (large) zone reload [was: Re: gTLD server losses] Date: Sun, May 06, 2001 at 03:32:15PM +0200 Quoting bert hubert (ahu@ds9a.nl): > On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 02:46:55PM +0200, Simon Leinen wrote: > > > * Have a dual/cluster setup, and while one box is reloading its > > zone(s), the IP address is routed to the other one. This seems easy > > enough and improves robustness in other areas as well. > > As the GTLD servers are, reportedly, behind Alteon Acedirectors, this seems > likely. I would be hesistant to assume that the GTLD servers consist of only > two boxes each, though. They do. It's a pair of big multiprocessor boxes with oodles of RAM. Måns, previous local maintainer of "I". -- Måns Nilsson Systems Specialist +46 70 681 7204 KTHNOC MN1334-RIPE I invented skydiving in 1989!