ISP inbound failover without BGP

Joe Greco jgreco at ns.sol.net
Tue Mar 4 00:48:33 UTC 2014


> Depending on their business=2C using dynamic DNS providers could be a reall=
> y bad idea. If they deal only with home users who won't even know=2C it'll =
> probably work. If their customers are security-aware businesses=2C they pro=
> bably block all sites hosted with dynamic DNS systems.


Where do dynamic DNS /providers/ enter the picture?

You update *your own* DNS records.  Those could conceivably be hosted
with a dynamic DNS provider, but why not just use the API for whatever
system you currently use for DNS?


... JG
-- 
Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net
"We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I
won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN)
With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.




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