[72231] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Who broke .org?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Per Gregers Bilse)
Sat Jul 3 06:28:51 2004
From: Per Gregers Bilse <bilse@networksignature.com>
Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2004 11:28:10 +0100
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Jul 2, 2:48pm, Jeff Wasilko <jeffw@smoe.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 02:38:12PM -0400, Patrick W Gilmore wrote:
> > run .org, I just think a blanket statement "anycast is bad" is, well,
> > bad.)
>
> I'd be totally happy to see a combination, too. It's just pretty
> obvious that the current solution isn't reliable over the long-haul.
At least the previous outage (a couple of weeks ago) had nothing to do
with anycast, I was getting NXDOMAIN replies back, and no kind of fallback
or non-anycast deployment would have helped. Anycast functionality
is well understood, and is less likely to cause problems than the
fact that the servers seem to be under a single "one typo breaks all"
management system. True redundancy requires the two sets of servers
to be managed by different people doing different things in different
ways at different times; this too is well understood, and I'm a little
dismayed this (or at least some weaker form thereof) seems not to be
the case. (Note I'm saying "seem", I'm just guessing based on the
observations I and other people have made.)
I think a statement from UltraDNS and/or Public Interest Registry as
to what caused the problems would have been, and still is, appropriate,
considering the public interest aspect.
-- Per
