Walt Mankowski on 6 Dec 2004 18:16:02 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] routing question....


On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 12:48:23PM -0500, Eric Hidle wrote:
> While this is a good point, I read a document somewhere (forgive me for not
> being able to cite it directly) that said that the authoritative DNS servers
> for a domain should be hosted on servers with verifiable three 9's uptime..
> I will dig around to see if I can find it again - but it has been a few
> years (read it when I was setting up my stuff 3 years ago)...
> 
> I do run servers on my DSL, but there's no way I have 99.9% uptime just by
> virtue of the fact that occasionally I do lose my connection for an hour,
> occasionally have to install a new kernel, which can mean another hour or
> two, and so on.. .it adds up..

Of course, 99.9% uptime still gives you nearly 9 hours of downtime a
year... :)

Walt

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