DNS Maintenance on ns-tld.ripe.net, 12 Sept
[Apologies for duplicate e-mails.] Dear Colleagues, On Wednesday, 12 September 2007, we will update our DNS server ns-tld.ripe.net between 17:00 and 17:15 (UTC). During this period, it will not be able to answer DNS queries. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause. If you have any questions or concerns about this, please send an e-mail to <dns-help@ripe.net>. Regards, Sjoerd Oostdijck, DNS Services RIPE NCC
Pardon me for asking, but why do you need a maintenance window to upgrade the DNS server? You can for example reroute the IP to another server while you perform the upgrade. Cheers, Joergen Hovland -----Original Message----- From: dns-wg-admin@ripe.net [mailto:dns-wg-admin@ripe.net] On Behalf Of Sjoerd Oostdijck Sent: 6. september 2007 15:43 To: dns-wg@ripe.net; ncc-services-wg@ripe.net Subject: [dns-wg] DNS Maintenance on ns-tld.ripe.net, 12 Sept [Apologies for duplicate e-mails.] Dear Colleagues, On Wednesday, 12 September 2007, we will update our DNS server ns-tld.ripe.net between 17:00 and 17:15 (UTC). During this period, it will not be able to answer DNS queries. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause. If you have any questions or concerns about this, please send an e-mail to <dns-help@ripe.net>. Regards, Sjoerd Oostdijck, DNS Services RIPE NCC
On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 03:59:04PM +0200, Jørgen Hovland <jorgen@hovland.cx> wrote a message of 35 lines which said:
but why do you need a maintenance window to upgrade the DNS server? You can for example reroute the IP to another server while you perform the upgrade.
It is not worth it, specially for fifteen minutes of maintenance. The DNS protocol can handle the lack of response from a server, without any problem. There is no need for the RIPE-NCC to bother with "Five nines" reliability, not only because this is a "best effort" and gratis service, but also because the DNS does not require it.
It would be slightly more involved than that I'm afraid. A scenario similar to what you describe would be a considerable amount of work. For an outage that is expected to be less than 15 minutes of what is a redundant service anyway. -- Brett Carr RIPE Network Coordination Centre Manager -- DNS Services Group Singel 258 Amsterdam NL GPG Key fingerprint = F20D B2A7 C91D E370 44CF F244 B6A1 EF48 E743 F7D8
-----Original Message----- From: dns-wg-admin@ripe.net [mailto:dns-wg-admin@ripe.net] On Behalf Of Jørgen Hovland Sent: 06 September 2007 15:59 To: 'Sjoerd Oostdijck'; dns-wg@ripe.net Subject: RE: [dns-wg] DNS Maintenance on ns-tld.ripe.net, 12 Sept
Pardon me for asking, but why do you need a maintenance window to upgrade the DNS server? You can for example reroute the IP to another server while you perform the upgrade.
Cheers,
Joergen Hovland
-----Original Message----- From: dns-wg-admin@ripe.net [mailto:dns-wg-admin@ripe.net] On Behalf Of Sjoerd Oostdijck Sent: 6. september 2007 15:43 To: dns-wg@ripe.net; ncc-services-wg@ripe.net Subject: [dns-wg] DNS Maintenance on ns-tld.ripe.net, 12 Sept
[Apologies for duplicate e-mails.]
Dear Colleagues,
On Wednesday, 12 September 2007, we will update our DNS server ns-tld.ripe.net between 17:00 and 17:15 (UTC). During this period, it will not be able to answer DNS queries.
We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
If you have any questions or concerns about this, please send an e-mail to <dns-help@ripe.net>.
Regards, Sjoerd Oostdijck, DNS Services RIPE NCC
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Stephane Bortzmeyer