[62788] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: anycast (Re: .ORG problems this evening)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (just me)
Mon Sep 22 19:05:02 2003
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 16:04:18 -0700 (PDT)
From: just me <matt@snark.net>
To: "David G. Andersen" <dga@lcs.mit.edu>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20030922223219.GC24356@lcs.mit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, David G. Andersen wrote:
With load balancing, traffic can get routed down a non-functional
path while routing takes place over the other one - BBN did that
to us once, was very entertaining).
Ah yes, I'll always have a special place in my heart for those
Localdirectors. *cough*
In contrast, talking to a few DNS servers gives you an end-to-end
test of how well the service is working. You still depend on the
answers being correct, but you can intuit a lot from whether
or not you actually get answers, instead of sitting around twiddling
your thumbs thinking, "gee, I sure wish that routing update would
get sent out so I could use the 'net."
Anycast isn't the only thing possibly stuck waiting for routing
convergence... Let's not get carried away here.
matto
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