[62496] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: .ORG problems this evening
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (just me)
Thu Sep 18 14:00:20 2003
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 10:41:41 -0700 (PDT)
From: just me <matt@snark.net>
To: Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.4.58.0309181250260.8936@server.duh.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Todd Vierling wrote:
BGP has no way to know that an internal network problem occurred. If
someone mistakenly tripped over a network cable that disconnected DNS
clusters from a router, how would the router know to drop anycast
advertisements?
(Sure, you could run zebra on the cluster. But what about if the name
server SEGVs? There's a lot of possible scenarios....)
I can assure you, this is a solved problem.
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