[63562] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ftp.cisco.com broken ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Tue Oct 7 14:20:18 2003
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 18:15:29 +0000
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh@outblaze.com>
To: Crist Clark <crist.clark@globalstar.com>
Cc: Ezequiel Carson <ezequiel@ifxnw.com.ar>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <3F82FD3B.D134AF1A@globalstar.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Crist Clark [07/10/03 10:51 -0700]:
> ftp.cisco.com name server rtp5-dirty-ddir.cisco.com
> ftp.cisco.com name server sjce-dirty-ddir.cisco.com
>
> Look at the query time. The other NS for ftp.cisco.com has a similar
> time for me. I didn't show it here, but the NS records for ftp.cisco.com
> have a 10s TTL too. And look at the name of the servers. Odd. Not exactly
> sure what's going on down the street with them.
Load balanced nameservers. I assume these are all being DDoS'd as well, so
that the actual nameservers behind the hardware (cisco?) load balancer are
overloaded.
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