On 9/27/06, Chris Withers <chris@simplistix.co.uk> wrote:
> Justizin wrote:
> > Perhaps I am making a wild and sweeping assumption here, but I think
> > that Chris is talking about the DNS servers which are controlled by
> > software the team I worked on at Rackspace was responsible for, and
> > look like ns.rackspace.com. ;)
>
> Yep, so you're responsible for that crappy ui?
> Dotster's wins for ease of use so far...
>
Not personally, but I will take the hit. ;)
Actually, the UI that I worked on was AJAX before AJAX had a name, and
was primarily directed toward employees.
The tools were all written when the company was very young, and, eh,
yeh, they have not been rewritten.
Let's simply say that I felt rather strongly that we should have moved
to Zope, and we didn't, so I don't work on that PHP anymore. It was
an interesting project, however.
> > So, I'm actually curious if they have implemented a feature which was
> > not high priority when I worked there, and that is the ability to
> > configure their nameservers as slaves.
>
> Don't think so, it's just that I can "host dns" there for stuff that
> isn't hosted on their servers.
>
> I'd hope their nameservers are also pretty robust?
>
When I left, I believe NS and NS2 were both load balanced clusters of
three large machines, which probably sit behind PrevenTier, a patented
DoS-aversion system, now. They may also have moved onto geographic
load balancing. I wouldn't really know.
> > Tom - do you know if Rackspace's nameservers are capable of serving up
> > a slave copy of a zone which is managed at ZoneEdit.com?
>
> When I wrote that email, I was actually proposing hosting the masters
> there. I don't mind being "DNS boy" for zope.org and I'd hope
> rackspace's nameservers would scale to the challenge...
>
If you want to do that, I don't object to losing Czar status. ;)
I am concerned that we can't easily allow a team of people who aren't
on your private customer account access to do this. I'm already
concerned that with my ZoneEdit account I can't give anyone else
access, and was going to propose opening a Zope Foundation account
which several people could have access to.
That said, concern raised, what do Martijin and others think?
We could still slave to Rack's nameservers.
> > We'd like to
> > de-centralize the zope.org zone so that no one individual or
> > organization such as Zope Corp are responsible for / in control of it.
>
> If I ever did stop doing Zope stuff (hahahaha) then I'd happilly hand
> the records on to someone else.
But of course, or the foundation would steal them back. :-P
> If I dropped dead (or got taken out by that hitman Jens keeps on
> promising), the DNS could similarly be moved elsewhere...
>
> > I presume one of our volunteers is a Rackspace customer, and is thus
> > offering to host our domain as part of their account.
>
> That'd be me ;-)
>
> cheers,
>
> Chris
>
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