[dns-wg] Re: DNS Maintenance on ns-tld.ripe.net, 12 Sept

[Stephane Bortzmeyer bortzmeyer@localhost]

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.