From owner-freebsd-isp Tue May 20 15:33:10 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA01588 for isp-outgoing; Tue, 20 May 1997 15:33:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from panda.hilink.com.au (panda.hilink.com.au [203.2.144.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA01578; Tue, 20 May 1997 15:32:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from danny@localhost) by panda.hilink.com.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA19319; Wed, 21 May 1997 08:32:52 +1000 (EST) Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 08:32:51 +1000 (EST) From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" cc: freebsd-isp@hub.freebsd.org, "Jonathan M. Bresler" Subject: Re: NS and MX records In-Reply-To: <199705201634.JAA12064@hub.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Excellently said, Jonathan. The slogan for this campaign is: "Even if a site is not reachable, it should be resolvable." I have written a small program which runs as a sendmail "|prog" (same as majordomo). It allows authorised remote hostmasters to update the records of their secondary NS - list, add, delete domains. If people would like to look at it it can be found at: ftp.hilink.com.au:/pub/autodns-1.0.tgz It is a work in progress, and I have ideas for 1.1, but comments are most welcome. The other gripe some hostmasters have is hostmasters who remove a zone from their ns, but don't delete it at the parent zone file. There are ridiculous numbers of lame delegations out there now, and InterNIC sent me a terse message saying effectively, "bugger off!" when I asked them to do something about it. Danny On Tue, 20 May 1997, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote: > the internet is becoming increasingly brittle. > NS and MX records for many sites funnel thru a single link, > their upstream provider. when their upstream provider fails, > the site disappears from the internet. baase all the NS are > lost mail bounces immediately. after 30 bounces, or so, i unsubscribe > the site. > > i am asking you cooperate with other sites by providing secondary > NS services to other FreeBSD sites in exchange for them providing > the same service to you. > > the first person to volunteer is: Steve Roome. > he can be reached at networks@vis.net.uk > > unless you have a scondary NS that is connected to the net via > diferent providers at different pops via separate physical feeds > (billy the backhoe wants you ;) > > you *need* this service ;) > > jmb > > -- > Jonathan M. Bresler FreeBSD Postmaster jmb@FreeBSD.ORG > FreeBSD--4.4BSD Unix for PC clones, source included. http://www.freebsd.org/ > PGP 2.6.2 Fingerprint: 31 57 41 56 06 C1 40 13 C5 1C E3 E5 DC 62 0E FB >