- Both name servers for the domain (ns1.bissly.com and ns2.bissly.com) are on consecutive IPs. This is bad. You name servers should be in different geographical places / different networks.
2.5 Network diversity
2.5.1 The name servers must be in at least two topologically separate networks.
2.5.2 A network is defined as an origin autonomous system in the BGP routing table.
@easyhostmedia I did not invent this, IANA did. Look here - "Technical requirements for authoritative name servers" - http://www.iana.org/procedures/nameserver-requirements.html
2.5 Network diversity
2.5.1 The name servers must be in at least two topologically separate networks.
2.5.2 A network is defined as an origin autonomous system in the BGP routing table.
Legal requirement? On the internet? Come on
It is the best practice and highly recommended to have your DNS servers on different networks. Nobody will kill you if you don't. But having your DNS servers on consecutive IPs (and probably on the same server) is an easily avoidable single point of failure. Which is probably OK for your grandma's website, but for a hosting provider... you should know better.
as i stated 99.99999% of nameservers use consecutive IPS. I have even seen some hosts use a single IP for both nameservers
anyone that gets a VPS will either be given a single IP or 2 consecutive IPs.
my legal requirement comment was the fact that ICANN can say its a requirement, but its not enforceable. If they want this to be a requirement then they should make it so that a single IP or consecutive IPS would be rejected in setting up nameservers, but a system like this would cost too much too implement
Do you even know what that guy is trying to explain and what you are saying. Its for our good practice and yes we don't even follow and thats same with me. Is best practice to have that to be on safer side. so you are arguing without any reason.
@easyhostmedia stop being cheap. Get a $5-$10 VPS or two from some reputable providers, install cPanel dnsonly (free) and you can have your own DNS cluster, with good diversity and reliability. Would make you look better in the eyes of some of your potential customers.
yes i am fully aware of DNS cluster and use this myself across all my our servers
Yes, i see ;-)
$ host -t ns niceday-hosting.co.uk
niceday-hosting.co.uk name server ns2.easyasabc-hosting.com.
niceday-hosting.co.uk name server ns1.easyasabc-hosting.com.
$ host ns1.easyasabc-hosting.com.
ns1.easyasabc-hosting.com has address 176.31.147.73
$ host ns2.easyasabc-hosting.com.
ns2.easyasabc-hosting.com has address 176.31.147.75
Nice cluster - 176.31.147.73 and 176.31.147.75
Anyway, enough with the offtopic. My suggestion to the OP still stands - his hosting company would look better if he had a secondary name server somewhere else.
Strange indeed. Check here - http://intodns.com/niceday-hosting.co.uk
yes i do and i was just saying 99.99999% of nameservers dont follow what ICANN require and ICANN cant enforce this. which is a FACT.
You name servers should be in different geographical places / different networks.