Re: Avoiding outages during (large) zone reload [was: Re: gTLD server losses]

Mans Nilsson <mansaxel@sunet.se> Sun, 06 May 2001 14:52 UTC

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Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 16:27:03 +0200
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Subject: Re: Avoiding outages during (large) zone reload [was: Re: gTLD server losses]
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Subject: Re: Avoiding outages during (large) zone reload [was: Re: gTLD server losses] Date: Sun, May 06, 2001 at 03:32:15PM +0200 Quoting bert hubert (ahu@ds9a.nl):
> On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 02:46:55PM +0200, Simon Leinen wrote:
> 
> > * Have a dual/cluster setup, and while one box is reloading its
> >   zone(s), the IP address is routed to the other one.  This seems easy
> >   enough and improves robustness in other areas as well.
> 
> As the GTLD servers are, reportedly, behind Alteon Acedirectors, this seems
> likely. I would be hesistant to assume that the GTLD servers consist of only
> two boxes each, though.

They do. It's a pair of big multiprocessor boxes with oodles of RAM. 
 
Måns, previous local maintainer of "I". 
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