[ale] OT: XO dns outage?

[Edward Holcroft]

They are back up now. 24 hour outage. Pretty bad communication from them
... no notification on their website, no e-mail, nothing.

We were dead in the water for that time, even our Google Apps was set up to
resolve through them.

How does this happen? Isn't the whole point of DNS that there are multiple
name servers globally so that an outage at one service provider does not
cause all our url's to stop resolving? This event leads me to conclude that
our entire zone file was referenced only on the XO servers and nowhere
else. Can someone explain this?

cheers
ed


On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Edward Holcroft <eholcroft at mkainc.com>wrote:

> Anyone aware of an outage at XO dns? I cannot connect to any of my
> servers, except by IP address.
>
> ed
>
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