2015-02-15 - News - Tony Finch
The DNS servers have been replaced with an entirely new setup.
The immediate improvements are:
Automatic failover for recursive DNS servers. There are servers in four different locations, two live, two backup.
DNSSEC signing moved off authdns0 onto a hidden master server, with support for signing Managed Zone Service domains.
There are extensive improvements to the DNS server management and administration infrastructure:
Configuration management and upgrade orchestration moved from ad-hoc to Ansible.
Revision control moved from SCCS to git, including a history of over 20,000 changes dating back to 1990.
Operating system moved from Solaris to Linux, to make better use of our local knowledge and supporting infrastructure.