Michael C. Toren on 6 Dec 2004 16:32:03 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] routing question....


On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 11:18:28AM -0500, Eric Hidle wrote:
> You don't need to (and shouldn't!) do your own DNS and MX over your
> DSL... it is not reliable enough to meet the generally accepted uptime
> requirements for DNS service.

DSL service from a decent provider *should* be reliable enough to run
servers on -- if not, something has gone wrong.  A number of people on
this list use a box located behind a DSL connection as their primary MX
and NS server, which works rather nicely so long as there are off-site
secondaries.

-mct

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