[dns-wg] Re: DNS Maintenance on ns-tld.ripe.net, 12 Sept
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To: Jørgen Hovland jorgen@localhost
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From: Stephane Bortzmeyer bortzmeyer@localhost
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Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 16:03:32 +0200
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Cc: 'Sjoerd Oostdijck' sjoerdoo@localhost, dns-wg@localhost
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Organization: NIC France
On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 03:59:04PM +0200,
Jørgen Hovland jorgen@localhost 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.
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