The plan is to set two DNS servers, zwinger.wikipedia.org, and joey.bomis.com. I was going to make this change yesterday, but there was some strangeness (I couldn't 'dig @zwinger.wikipedia.org www.wikipedia.org'). So, we will have 2 nameservers, but register.com will no longer be in control.
Eventually, both of the servers will be living in the same colocation facility. So, I suppose we can see that as a single point of failure as well. Of course, if the network connection in the colo goes down for any long period of time, DNS will not be our primary concern.
I intend to make the change soon (if I can nail down the problem I was having yesterday).
Jason Richey
Arne Klempert wrote:
On Wednesday, March 10, 2004 5:35 PM Gabriel Wicke groups@gabrielwicke.de wrote:
The german squid is ready to go, pending dns updates. The ttl for the de.wp.org entry should be short to allow a fast dns switch in case of trouble with the german machine. This depends on the dns server entry getting finally switched from register.com to zwinger. Same for load balancing, peaks like the ones after tv reports only hit one of the squids currently while the load will be distributed after the dns switch.
Perhaps I missed some mails. But I was somewhat surprised about this announcement. I'm not happy with this, because this server will be a new Single Point of Failure.
I strongly recommend to discuss this point before changing the dns entries. The actual performance seems to be ok, so we don't need to hurry.
We're still having a lot of press contacts in germany. And I would not be amused to answer questions why wikipedia is down (especially in a live interview on german radio) ...
Arne [[de:Benutzer:Akl]]
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