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On 18/01/2014 09:04, Patrick Lauer wrote: |
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>> which could link to the |
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>> > infra page would be good here perhaps, so when an outage occurred ( at |
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>> > least on the web side ) appropriate links to infra could be given. |
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> The more sane fix would be low DNS TTL and rotating DNS to a different |
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> IP if things are down. |
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That is already in place: |
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$ dig overlays.gentoo.org |
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; <<>> DiG 9.9.4 <<>> overlays.gentoo.org |
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;; global options: +cmd |
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;; Got answer: |
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;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 49989 |
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;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1 |
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;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION: |
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; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4000 |
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;; QUESTION SECTION: |
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;overlays.gentoo.org. IN A |
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;; ANSWER SECTION: |
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overlays.gentoo.org. 600 IN CNAME spoonbill.gentoo.org. |
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spoonbill.gentoo.org. 604800 IN A 81.93.255.5 |
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5 minutes downtime max if a switch needs to be done. |
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5 minutes is perfectly acceptable IMHO |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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