[34019] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DNS availability
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (richb@pioneer.ci.net)
Sat Jan 27 00:09:38 2001
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Christian Nielsen <cnielsen@nielsen.net> wrote:
> ultradns does this and has a great product.
Interesting to read the faq on UltraDNS's website:
> Q. I read that your service is supposed to make use of several servers
> all over the world, but you only give people two server addresses to
> provide to their registrar. How do I make use of all the other
> servers?
> A. The two server addresses you supply your registrar when you set up
> a domain on the Managed DNS Service system are actually 'virtual'
> addresses that will route to the best possible server on our network,
> based on a number of factors. This highly intelligent mechanism allows
> you to achieve full redundancy and reliability with only two name
> server addresses actually listed. In fact, if the registrar would
> allow you to do so, you could achieve the same level of reliability
> with only one name server address.
Looks to me like most of their hiring lately has been in marketing
and business-dev. How could an engineer make statements like the
above with a straight face?
Or maybe there have been a few extensions to BGP which I haven't
learned about...;-)
-rich
