At 7:24 AM -0700 2002/07/11, Rodney Thayer wrote:
DNS timeouts might be the wrong topic. How within the RIPE community you address the issue of TLD's dropping off the internet transiently, from odd-numbered counties within the UK, like .to did last night, might be relevant.
Distribution of RIPE-area TLDs across a robust set of servers that are geographically diverse, and making this a "Best Current Practice" advocated by the WG, and then taking the next step and making this an actual RIPE requirement (and something that RIPE NCC could help make happen), is something that I think would be *VERY* good. I think the benefit to the Internet community as a whole could be almost unbelievable. -- Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.