[57017] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The weak link? DNS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Wed Mar 26 16:05:57 2003
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 16:04:35 -0500 (EST)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: Matt Buford <matt@overloaded.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <014d01c2f3d2$443e71e0$e42aa8c0@datapipecorp.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Matt Buford wrote:
> I can not go into details, but suffice it to say DNS was just a symptom of
> other events, not the problem itself. DNS TTL on the global load balancing
> system was at 5 seconds and DNS load never rose above trivial.
Al Jazeera's main problem looks like its web site or upstream decided to
drop them as a customer.