[165613] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DNS Reliability
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George William Herbert)
Thu Sep 12 19:03:04 2013
In-Reply-To: <m2d2odfyvl.wl%randy@psg.com>
From: George William Herbert <george.herbert@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 16:02:45 -0700
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sep 12, 2013, at 3:39 PM, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:
>> we're already outside our operating envelope
>=20
> not really. just some folk seem not to understand things such as udp
> datagrams and the dns protocols.
>=20
> randy
Statistically, UDP sometimes arrives after an internet wide round trip. Hon=
est!
The worry is bimodal.
Most small sites, two or three servers, stop worrying.
Most medium sites, watch your server load and run external monitoring.
Most big sites are not sufficiently paranoid / redundant here.
-george william herbert
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