[62393] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: .ORG problems this evening
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher L. Morrow)
Thu Sep 18 01:34:35 2003
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 05:30:48 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Christopher L. Morrow" <chris@UU.NET>
To: Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0309180526110.11397@rampart.argfrp.us.uu.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Christopher L. Morrow wrote:
>
> On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Todd Vierling wrote:
>
> >
> > It makes me wonder how UltraDNS got a contract to manage the domain on all
> > of two nameservers hosted on the same subnet, given that they were supposed
> > to have deployed "geographically diverse" (or something like that) servers.
> > But then, we know ICANN smokes the crack liberally at times....
>
> Just because they hosts are on the same subnet and are apparently behind
> the same end device for you doesn't make them non-geographically diverse
> if they are really anycast pods, does it? It really just means one anycast
> pod was down for a time :(
>
> It is one of the things that anycast makes difficult though :(
> Troubleshooting anycast from the outside is a bear.
>
Oh, and 'same subnet' doesn't mean 'same ethernet' all auth dns servers in
198.6.1.0/24 aren't on one ethernet, though it'd sure make MY life easier
if they were :)
