[62556] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: .ORG problems this evening
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Todd Vierling)
Thu Sep 18 21:06:57 2003
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 14:09:23 -0400
From: "Todd Vierling" <tv@duh.org>
To: "Keptin Komrade Dr. BobWrench III esq." <bownes@web9.com>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Keptin Komrade Dr. BobWrench III esq. wrote:
: And, I might add, in the case of a highly complex anycast application,
: you will need to check not only for correctness, but for timeliness.
All this still assumes that DNS should be trusting a single anycast =
location
as the only point of access (a situation which is the case for UltraDNS =
if
both records' routes go to the same place).
There's a reason DNS does not trust exactly one server if multiple ones =
are
provided: too many things can and do go wrong. What is going on right =
now
with .ORG is that DNS is being forced to believe that BGP knows what is =
best
for it, and it's already demonstrated that BGP did not always know best.
--=20
-- Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org> <tv@pobox.com>
