Numbering nameservers and resolvers
Owen DeLong
owen at delong.com
Mon Aug 16 13:08:02 UTC 2010
On Aug 16, 2010, at 6:03 AM, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Patrick W. Gilmore <patrick at ianai.net> said:
>> 1) Use different prefixes. A single prefix going down should not kill
>> your entire network. (Nameservers and resolvers being unreachable
>> breaks the whole Internet as far as users are concerned.)
>
> How do you do this in the IPv6 world, where I get a single /32? Will
> others accept announcements of two /33s to better handle things like
> this?
>
The better solution is to trade secondary services with some other
provider. Sure, it's a bit of a pain keeping up with the new zones
to be added and old zones to be removed back and forth, but, it's
a great way to have your authoritative servers truly diverse and
independent.
Owen
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