[09:33] <JonathanD> Morning.
[09:36] <rmg51> Morning
[09:39] <JonathanD> Hi rmg51
[09:57] <rmg51> o/
[10:02] <JonathanD> how goes?
[10:33] <rmg51> slow and steady
[12:20] <InHisName> chilly mornin'
[12:21] <teddy-dbear> Morning peoples,dogs, turkeys and everything else
[18:04] <ChinnoDog> Network Solutions is broken today
[18:04] <TheLordOfTime> old news
[18:06] <ChinnoDog> How do you guard against your root DNS server tanking?
[18:07] <TheLordOfTime> redundant backups
[18:08] <ChinnoDog> I mean how do you make sure your web site resolves during an outage like this?
[18:09] <ChinnoDog> The problem is that one or more of the Network Solutions DNS servers is not working
[18:09] <ChinnoDog> Multiple NS servers isn't going to help if the root server is offline
[18:13] <pleia2> network solutions doesn't run the root servers, those are run by ICANN
[18:13] <pleia2> unless you mean something else by "root server"?
[18:14] <pleia2> and your master dns server can go down, but the slaves should still work fine, they just won't get updated
[18:14] <TheLordOfTime> mhm
[18:14] <pleia2> (that's kind of the whole point :))
[18:14] <TheLordOfTime> exactly
[18:15] <pleia2> typically people put their nameservers in different physical locations to prevent multiple ones going out at once, or sync between multiple providers
[18:16] <pleia2> but honestly, most people stick with one provider and trust they are redundant as they should be (not great, but common enough, I do it)
[18:16] <ChinnoDog> It isn't one of the DNS servers for the domain, it is the Network Solutions server that points to the next level DNS servr. Does that make it a .com server? I'm not sure since I don't know how the load of TLDs are distributed.
[18:17] <ChinnoDog> When I try to resolve the affected domains the query times out
[18:18] <ChinnoDog> Looks like it is fixed now. Seems to be a single point of failure I can't do anything about though.
[18:21] <pleia2> yeah, this is a case of a whole provider failing
[18:21] <pleia2> on the bright side, you're not alone :D
[18:21] <ChinnoDog> Not very comforting. lol
[18:23] <ChinnoDog> This happened before and it was Network Solutions the last time as well
[18:26] <ChinnoDog> Looking for someone that has measured reliability of the registrars but I can't find any.