From: Eugene Leitl (eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Tue Jan 04 2000 - 13:36:30 MST
Robert Bradbury writes:
> Gentlemen, come on. I case you haven't looked inside a computer
> lately, most of them still have a single fan on the processor
> and a single power supply. The same is true for almost all of
> the routers on the net. In my experience over the years of
> managing dozens of systems, these components do break frequently
> enough to cause systems to be down for days until replacement
> parts can be found or new systems are installed.
Redundant DNS setup is one of most basic architectures there
is. Triple-redundancy is pretty common these days.
> Until everything is redundant and replicated, these problems will
> occur. Now, since the problem is "unable to resolve target system
> name", the problem may not be with aleph.se at all, but the nameserver
> for the system.
Yes, DNS is notoriously broken.
> Since the nameserver for nordu.net refuses queries for the aleph.se
> domain, this sounds more like a configuration problem than a
> hardware problem.
DNS is distributed. "Parallel system: where you can't get any work
done because a machine you've never heard of has crashed".
> R.
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