KPNQwest ns.eu.net server.

On Thu, 6 Jun 2002 01:08:46 +0200
Joao Luis Silva Damas <joao at ripe.net> wrote:

> 
> At 11:04 -0700 5/6/02, Randy Bush wrote:
> >  > Given the current situation of KPNQwest and the possibility
> >>  of its services going offline sometime soon, the RIPE NCC in
> >>  agreement with KPNQwest will be temporally hosting this
> >>  server (ns.eu.net) in its premises.
> >
> >nice emergency hack and sorry to whine.  but i used them both
> >to get diversity.
> 
> Hi Randy,
> 
> there are 16 ccTLDs for which ns.ripe.net and ns.eu.net are both 
> secondary. So we will definitely request those ccTLDs to look for a 
> new host as soon as possible.

Hi Randy, hi Joao, dear routing-wg,

probably my Company (GATEL, AS13129) is able to host a secondary
server for the ccTLDs.

The question is rather what are the hardware "requirements" for the secondary
server. 

We have sufficient bandwidth capacity available and rack space as well.

> The rest can take bit more time to think what they want to do since 
> ns.eu.net will keep running.

Well done ! Congrats for the good ideas and coordination work.

> 
> We are offering secondary service on ns.ripe.net for any ccTLD that 
> we weren't sencodaring for, as are other people.
> 
> The idea is not to have ns.eu.net running for ever, just to enable 
> people to have time to take rational decisions, without the fear of 
> having the server going away because of some unexpected turn of 
> events.
> 
> >
> >when in less of a panic, please move it to moscow or something.
> 
> Panic? what panic? this is just common sense
> 

right. it's not panic.

--jan

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