[27789] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Alternative to BGP-4 for multihoming?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gary E. Miller)
Mon Mar 13 17:45:40 2000
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 14:43:32 -0800 (PST)
From: "Gary E. Miller" <gem@rellim.com>
Reply-To: gary miller <gem@rellim.com>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc: "Peter A. van Oene" <vantech@sympatico.ca>, nanog@merit.edu
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Yo All!
On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Randy Bush wrote:
> > a DNS oriented approach can be feasible in many situations.
>
> yup. unfortunately the hack is not a good net citizen (some folk don't
> appreciate packets thrown at their servers), and some versions are not
> very accurate (as the server for foo.bar may be quite net.far from the
> host foo.bar).
I have DNS servers in Singapore and Germany for hosts in California
(and vice versa).
I do this so the next time NorCal has a major power outage, or Taiwan
has an earthquake, that I do not lose my DNS in major sections or
internet space!
Checking the path to my DNS servers tells you NOTHING about the
path to my hosts.
RGDS
GARY
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