[62510] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: anycast (Re: .ORG problems this evening)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Todd Vierling)
Thu Sep 18 14:52:00 2003
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 14:38:18 -0400 (EDT)
From: Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0309181823280.19873-100000@pop.ict1.everquick.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, E.B. Dreger wrote:
: EBD> That's why one uses a daemon with main loop including
: EBD> something like:
: EBD>
: EBD> success = 0 ;
: EBD> for ( i = checklist ; i->callback != NULL ; i++ )
: EBD> success &= i->callback(foo) ;
: EBD> if ( success )
: EBD> send_keepalive(via_some_ipc_mechanism) ;
:
: Eek!
:
: s,success = 0,success = 1,
Heh. I'll send you some coffee.
Yes, I hope that UltraDNS implements something like this, if they have not
already. It's still not a guarantee that things will get withdrawn -- or be
reachable, even if working but not withdrawn -- in case of a problem. That
still leaves the DNS for a gTLD at risk for a single point of failure.
Maybe I should just chalk this up to history at this point. I have a
feeling, though, that the head of this thread's archive URL will show up as
a citation some time from now when something else goes wrong with the zone.
<sigh>
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-- Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org> <tv@pobox.com>
