The Stability of External DNS Servers
I've discussed a proposal with Mark, and he's given me permission to make this post in response to this thread.
I'm one of those people who believe in the "Stability of External Nameservers" as one previous poster called it.
I already have multiple nameservers which act as independent master nameservers. Some are running already, others are ready to go the first of September.
We currenly host primary and secondary DNS for thousands of domains, and our solution is both robust and scalable.
Here's what we can do for the DirectAdmin community:
We've automated getting the list of hosted domains from properly configured nameservers (if your DirectAdmin nameserver isn't already properly configured we can explain how to do it or do it for you).
Once we've got the list of hosted domains we've also automated getting the zonefiles transferred to our servers.
If for some reason your nameserver fails to give us the list of domains, or to transfer the previous list to us, we continue to use the list we've already got.
Each of our servers operates independently of the others; if one of our nameservers go down the others continue to work and continue to get updates from your server as necessary.
You then simply point your ns1, ns2, etc., to IP#s you get from us.
No matter how many systems you have, you continue to use your DA to automatically set up DNS, and you continue to point everyone to your own NS1 and NS2 (and so forth) and DNS works, robustly, and automatically.
As Mark put it in an email to me:
What may be best right now is to post on our forum with this idea, and see
how the response is. It wouldn't be considered advertising. If the
response is good, then we would go from there.
What do you think?
Jeff