Re: Out-of-Bailiwick DNS? (Was: HE.net problem)

["Jay R. Ashworth" <jra () baylink com>]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert L Mathews" <lists () tigertech com>
>
> However, if "example.com" uses "ns1.he.net" and "ns2.he.net" as its nameservers,
> having the second of those instead be "ns2.he.org" will keep "www.example.com"
> reachable if he.net is placed on clientHold.
>
> That was presumably the emergency concern in this case -- not so much that
> www.he.net itself was offline, but that all the other domains using their
> nameservers were offline.

Correct.  I was not the person who made the original query/report, but that was
the concern which made me run the event up the flagpole here and on Outages.

> I run a registrar so there's no risk of our domain names getting put on
> clientHold, but I still don't trust the *registry* not to put one of our domain
> names on their equivalent "serverHold". 

And it is there that perhaps I overreacted one step; I had thought from the
data I heard that that *was* a registry-side hold (and hence it didn't matter
that it was NetSol).  Or perhaps that NetSol was still the registry for .net --
that's out of date now, isn't it?

Cheers,
-- jra

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