[62405] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: .ORG problems this evening
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Todd Vierling)
Thu Sep 18 07:40:03 2003
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 07:38:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org>
To: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.Nether.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20030918052240.GB12564@puck.nether.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Jared Mauch wrote:
: ultradns uses the power of anycast to have these ips that appear
: to be on close subnets in geographyically diverse locations.
Oh, that's brilliant. How nice of them to defeat the concept of redundancy
by limiting me to only two of their servers for a gTLD.
VeriSign might be doing some loathsome things lately, but at least my named
has several more servers than just two to choose from.
: could you provide some more technical details, other than
: your postulations that they have two machines on
: network-wise close subnets and that is the problem?
I tracerouted to both IPs from two different locations in the USA; both took
the same route before hitting !H from an ultradns.com rDNS machine. And
both servers for that route were completely unresponsive from both tried
locations during the outage period.
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-- Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org> <tv@pobox.com>
