In message <80616.1038101587(a)toybsd.zl2tnm.gen.nz>, Don Stokes writes:

Joe wrote:

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Incidentally, wasn't the original plan for AS9736 to be multi-homed? [.... yes, but didn't happen ....] But mainly the need was for registry services rather than the DNS. In real life, most of the automated stuff was going via the email template, and that could back off and retry quite happily.

FWIW, the primary site for the SRS systems is currently living outside the AS9736 address space (the secondary site is in a /24 inside that space). The primary site is in a long prefix CIDR block of ex-Paradise TelstraClear address space, which is also advertised into WIX (but not APE) as a long-prefix CIDR block, and that should help to ensure availabilty at least within NZ in the face of some outages, but otherwise it's not multihomed. (Although given a number of sites don't accept routes from WIX and/or don't accept prefixes that long, it may not help _that_ much. That said, I believe the current hosts of the SRS primary site are planning a renumbering into a shorter prefix CIDR block in the next month or two, which may help.) Given that the SRS is accessed through "online queries" there's probably going to be somewhat more need for AS9736 to be multi-homed if the primary site is moved into that space as well at some point. (AFAIK there'll be less reliance on the "email template" approach once the SRS opens up to competition in early December.) Ewen PS: The APNIC info for AS9736 looks to be somewhat out of date these days, which is interesting because I had thought at least some of the NZ DNS Politics were going to lead to it being updated.... - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog