[62469] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: .ORG problems this evening
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Lesher)
Thu Sep 18 12:23:37 2003
From: David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu (nanog list)
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 11:54:15 -0400 (EDT)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.4.58.0309181130480.8936@server.duh.org> from "Todd Vierling" at Sep 18, 2003 11:39:17 AM
Reply-To: wb8foz@nrk.com
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Speaking on Deep Background, the Press Secretary whispered:
>
> : I think you'll find most people on the list would disagree with you
> : on this point. Many ISP's run anycast for customer facing DNS
> : servers, and I'll bet if you ask the first reason why isn't because
> : they provide faster service, or distribute load, but because the
> : average customer only wants one or two IP's to put in his DNS config,
> : and gets real annoyed when they don't work.
And/or, the networking stack may accept 3,4{...}50 DNS addresses,
but only really looks at the first.....
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A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz@nrk.com
& no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX
Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433
is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433
