Re: Repository services and budget

["Rick H. Wesson" <wessorh@ar.com>]

On Jan 13, 12:17am, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond wrote:
> Subject: 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.
>

I'm not the authority, but I don't believe that whom ever runs the CORE
database will also be running the primary root "." server. I believe
that zone files for each TLD will be generated and made available via FTP
for the DNS servers that are primary for the root "." zone.

-Rick

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Rick H. Wesson