Thanks to Mr. Campbell

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2003, Douglas J Hunley wrote:
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>Bill Campbell shocked and awed us all by speaking:
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>> When did the DNS authoritative name servers change for linux-sxs.org?
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>I sent you an email this morning. Obviously, it didn't get there (which 
>explains why I hadn't gotten a reply from you yet). As of this morning, the 
>DNS for the SxS is being hosted by the web-hosting company that is hosting 
>the website. I wasn't gonna switch it, but I ran into an issue with the 
>hosting, and they basically told me 'you're not using our DNS. we're not 
>debugging it'....

It would probably be a Good Idea(tm) then if they had geographically
separated name servers instead of only two which are on the same network.
As it stands now, it's essentially a single point of failure.  Microsoft
was totally hosed a couple of years ago when something happened in their
NOC, and all their name servers were on the same class C.

>I'd like to take this opportunity to publicly thank you for providing DNS 
>services for the StepByStep. You've been wonderfully responsive and the 
>service has rocked. We need to hook up sometime so I can buy you a brew or 
>something...

Sounds good so long as it's not someplace where the choices of ``beer'' are
Miller Lite, Bud Lite, and Coors.

Bill
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