[nylug-talk] thoughts on distributed DNS?

[Ruben Safir]

On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 04:59:13PM -0400, Joachim Rosenfeld wrote:
> hello,
> 
> I was recently tasked to redo the DNS at a company that is currently
> outsourcing their DNS.
> 
> They are using a well-known provider, but they are getting raped on the
> price -- think on the order of $10k/month. So they clearly need to move
> to someone else.
> 
> (Also, the DNS provider in question uses very sleazy sales tactics to
> get people to use their service -- they will call you up (or more
> likely, your CTO) and say, "Hey, did you know your DNS guys are dropping
> 20% of your queries?")
> 
> 
> I had initially told them they should set up their own DNS servers on
> two Linux boxes and forget it, but they were hit with a DDOS attack a
> few years ago which interfered severely with their DNS traffic until
> they were able to mitigate it, so they are terrified of that scenario.
> 
> They only have about 15 domains and maybe 300 records total, but their 3
> most popular domains get about 90 million queries per month.
> 
> The current idea is to setup a Linux box as an authoritative DNS server,
> and then distribute the rest with Akamai's CDN. This is doable, but I am
> told Akamai charges $2k/month for this (I haven't verified that though).
> 
> $2k/month is acceptable to them, but I think they can get just as much
> resiliency for a lower price by going with someone else for CDN.
> 
> Any suggestions? Perhaps something similar to the Akamai setup, but with
> a different CDN provider? Basically, what they want is to setup DNS and
> not worry about it. The price is a factor, but not *that* much of a
> factor.

Eyah, if they donate $500 a month to NYLXS we'll do it for them through COVAD

Ruben

> 
> thanks,
> Joe
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