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Article #226Re: Yet Another SN@FU: "Excite@Home outage hits thousands"
From: Oliver Costich
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2000 00:00
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2000 00:00
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On Sat, 02 Dec 2000 07:16:53 -0500, Willy B. Back <willybback@athomesucks.com> wrote: >there is a program called ExtraDNS. One of the features is to allow up >to 10 DNS servers..plus it keeps a local version of DNS lookups....it >got me thru the outage > Where do you get ExtaDNS? > >On Sat, 02 Dec 2000 05:51:03 GMT, Barry@netbox.com (Barry Twycross) >wrote: > >>In article <HjVV5.491077$i5.8832493@news1.frmt1.sfba.home.com>, >>kenny@panix.com wrote: >> >>>Here's the funny part: I did a "whois" on HOME-DOM (the home.com top-level) >>>and found their primary DNS servers, NS1- and NS2- .home.net (24.0.0.27 and >>>24.2.0.27, respectively). "nslookup" using "server ns[12].home.net was able >>>to resolve every @Home address correctly- I used it to verify the news server >>>was up in the SFBA. I'm not sure why their top-level info didn't cascade out, >>>since it appeared to be valid- probably due to caching issues and/or TTL >>>values. >> >>When I was using cable, and the DNS went down (not infrequently) I pointed >>my DNS to those servers and everything was fine. When those servers stopped >>working I pointed it back at the ones I've been given. >> >>They don't seem to be able to keep DNS's running, and don't seem to treat >>it as a high priority when they do go down. > >
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