[TriLUG] REMINDER: October 10 Meeting: Choosing a secondary DNS server, now with data!

[Barry Peddycord III]

Topic: Choosing a secondary DNS server, now with data!
Presenter: Aaron Joyner
Sponsor: Peak10
When: Thursday, 10th October 2013, 7pm
Where: NC State Engineering Building II Room 1025, Centennial Campus
Parking: Parking decks and Oval Drive street parking are free after 5pm

http://trilug.org/2013-10-10/dns

Abstract:
Are you responsible for a DNS domain, perhaps professionally, or a
"vanity" domain for your personal email?  Have you given much thought
to the DNS resolvers for that domain?  Every domain requires at least
one DNS server, and everyone has probably heard that they should have
a geographically disparate secondary server to hedge against
catastrophic outages (network, building, etc).  Assuming you don’t
have the luxury of a globally distributed set of datacenters, where
should your secondary DNS server be hosted?  This talk will present
one man's quest to answer that question, along with the data used to
visualize and understand the available options.  There will also be a
brief discussion of how that data was collected, and open source code
(in Go, http://golang.org) to do it yourself.

Bio:
Aaron S. Joyner is a Sr. Systems Engineer in the Site Reliability
Engineering (SRE) group at Google. He has been working as a SysAdmin
for more than 15 years at companies such as Global Knowledge,
Intrex.net, and MWG Biotech. When living in Raleigh, he was actively
involved with the Triangle Linux Users Group, serving on the steering
committee as SysAdmin in 2004-2005, and giving talks on DNS for NC*SA
and TriLUG. Since joining Google in 2005, he has helped to maintain
their internal DNS infrastructure and been primarily responsible for
designing, implementing, and supporting Google's serial console
systems.  For the past ~4 years, he has been leading a team of SREs
responsible for supporting production authentication and machine
management systems.

Sponsor: Peak 10
Peak 10 provides reliable, tailored cloud computing, data center and
other information technology (IT) infrastructure solutions and managed
services, primarily for mid-market businesses. Customer-centric,
responsive and cost-effective, Peak 10 solutions are designed to scale
and adapt to customers' changing business needs, enabling them to
increase agility, lower costs, improve performance and focus internal
resources on their core competencies. Peak 10 holds the Cisco® Cloud
Provider Certification with a Cisco Powered Cloud
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) designation. Peak 10 is SSAE 16
audited and helps companies meet the requirements of various
regulatory compliance acts such as Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), HIPAA/HITECH,
PCI DSS and Gramm-Leach-Bliley (GLBA). For more information, visit
www.peak10.com.

NCSU Host:
A big thanks to the Office of Information Technology and NCSU for
making the room available during Fall Break.

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