[62396] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: .ORG problems this evening
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Brown)
Thu Sep 18 01:58:47 2003
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 23:58:04 -0600
From: John Brown <jmbrown@chagresventures.com>
To: Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.4.58.0309180044580.22249@server.duh.org>; from tv@duh.org on Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 12:50:28AM -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
um, dude, can you say ANYCAST.
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 12:50:28AM -0400, Todd Vierling wrote:
>
> tld[12].ultradns.net, the NS for .ORG, was completely unreachable for about
> an hour or two this evening, timing out on all DNS queries. Anyone else see
> similar? (The hosts are unpingable and untracerouteable, so I had to use
> DNS queries to determine when they were back up.)
>
> 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....
>
> <sigh>
>
> --
> -- Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org> <tv@pobox.com>
