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Re: Repository services and budget

On Jan 9,  0:57, Kent Crispin wrote:

> It doesn't keep any record of domains -- only pending updates and 
> reservations.  The information concerning domains is in DNS.  If DNS 
> goes down for the zone, then you have a serious problem.  But that is 
> almost impossible -- there should be multiple secondary DNS servers 
> for the zone.

... and the way the Internet works nowadays, and with the current
worldwide peering arrangements, the "almost impossible" situation is likely 
to happen because of network outages. You'll have to put the secondary
DNS servers at the four corners of the globe.


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