Re: DNS Maintenance

2009-07-08 Thread Barry Dean
I have been thinking of this same issue lately when I had to move a dns service from one host to another to re-build the OS. I use virtual IPs on the host making it relatively easy to move the service around. But as I use Solaris 10 as the platform I am thinking that Zones would be a winner

Re: DNS Maintenance

2009-07-08 Thread Chris Hills
On 08/07/09 15:46, Alans wrote: Hi, Can someone tell me how webhosting providers or ISPs do maintenance on their DNSs? I mean, can they take it offline? What is the procedure usually? Hi You can use a load balancer in front of your DNS servers, and remove the host from the pool when mainten

Re: DNS Maintenance

2009-07-08 Thread Mohamed Navas V
What u mean by Offline ..! On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Alan Clegg wrote: > Alans wrote: > > > Can someone tell me how webhosting providers or ISPs do maintenance on > > their DNSs? > > > > I mean, can they take it offline? What is the procedure usually? > > You need to define "maintenance".

Re: DNS Maintenance

2009-07-08 Thread Alan Clegg
Alans wrote: > Can someone tell me how webhosting providers or ISPs do maintenance on > their DNSs? > > I mean, can they take it offline? What is the procedure usually? You need to define "maintenance". With very few exceptions (none?) I can't think of a reason to take a DNS server off-line to