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Re: Yet Another SN@FU: "Excite@Home outage hits thousands"

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From: Oliver Costich
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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From: Oliver Costich <olc-ca@home.com>
Subject: Re: Yet Another SN@FU: "Excite@Home outage hits thousands"
Date: 2000/12/02
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