Subj : proposed new nodelist
To   : Johannes Lundberg
From : Malcolm Miles
Date : Wed Oct 09 2002 04:42 pm

On Jul 21, 2002 Johannes Lundberg wrote to Peter Knapper:

JL> Relying on one single server is not very good. Especially not if ALL
JL> mail-transfers depends on it. That's one potential problem using
JL> such a system (as the DNS-system, or a system of our own). If the
JL> "root"-server (the DNS-server for the domain, like fidonet.net) goes
JL> down, not a single conversion from 4D-adress to IP and Services can
JL> be done during the downtime.

That is why you always have multiple domain servers set up. For example 
z3.fidonet.net is hosted on 2 DNS serers, verdi.tardis.net here in Australia 
and ns.fidonet.net in Russia. No reason why you could not add others.

Best wishes,
Malcolm

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