[NTLUG:Discuss] "Back up dns server"?

[Chris Cox]

MadHat Unspecific wrote:
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> 
> Akamai makes shitloads doing the load balancing and availability.  That 
> is who Yahoo and other major plays use to offload traffic.  Akamai 
> answers for www.yahoo.com and redirects to one of their server farms, 
> the one logically closest to you and the one with the best response time 
> and  what ever other details you choose.  It's a great (and expensive) 
> service.  Yahoo syncs data/states between colos on a regular basis and 
> if one disappears they are not guaranteed to be synced, but they will be 
> close.  There is no perfect answer.

I agree.  Farming this out is not a bad way of handling it.