Geographically Redundant DNS is now available
Published July 20th, 2011 by Keiran HollowayUp until recently we’ve done all DNS hosting locally in Australia on our multi-homed network.
Historically, this has been more than satisfactory for the vast majority of our clients. When the DNS is, for the most part, only pointing to other hosts on your own network then there isn’t a huge amount of gain from having DNS servers on the other side of the world pointing all the records back to the Australian hosts on the Anchor network.
In recent times this has changed somewhat with us getting involved in the remote management of hosting services around the world. With that in mind, announcing our US-based authoritative nameserver:
ns3.anchor.net.au
This host is being provided in addition to our existing name servers (ns1.anchor.net.au & ns2.anchor.net.au) and is available for all clients at no additional cost. We would encourage that all clients who have services hosted on networks remote from our primary point of presence in Sydney add this to their DNS configuration immediately.
Any questions? Please do not hesitate to get in contact with our support team via support@anchor.com.au or 1300 883 979.