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Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 09:10:08 +0200
From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] overlays.gentoo.org restoration & post-mortem
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On 18/01/2014 09:04, Patrick Lauer wrote:
>> which could link to the
>> > infra page would be good here perhaps, so when an outage occurred ( at
>> > least on the web side ) appropriate links to infra could be given.
> The more sane fix would be low DNS TTL and rotating DNS to a different
> IP if things are down.
>
>
That is already in place:
$ dig overlays.gentoo.org
; <<>> DiG 9.9.4 <<>> overlays.gentoo.org
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 49989
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1
;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4000
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;overlays.gentoo.org. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
overlays.gentoo.org. 600 IN CNAME spoonbill.gentoo.org.
spoonbill.gentoo.org. 604800 IN A 81.93.255.5
5 minutes downtime max if a switch needs to be done.
5 minutes is perfectly acceptable IMHO
--
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com