[79694] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: New Outage Hits Comcast Subscribers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Niels Bakker)
Thu Apr 14 08:47:40 2005
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 14:46:30 +0200
From: Niels Bakker <niels=nanog@bakker.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Mail-Followup-To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <OF96D5D084.8FF6AAC8-ON80256FE3.0036E6E3-80256FE3.00373E80@radianz.com>
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>> Let me inform you of an exciting new concept... Anycast DNS... It is
>> not difficult... Get with the freaking program...
* Michael.Dillon@radianz.com (Michael.Dillon@radianz.com) [Thu 14 Apr 2005, 12:03 CEST]:
> Are you suggesting that network operators should supply
> their customers with recursive DNS services by operating
> DNS servers on their network which share the same anycast
> addresses as the recursive DNS servers on other networks?
>
> Or are you suggesting that a network operator should set
> up anycast internal to their network so that all of their
> recursive DNS servers share the same IP address?
>
> I'd like to hear some more detail on this.
Michael, put down the crackpipe already, will you? *Of course* the
previous (unattributed) poster was not talking about hijacking other
people's address space, but suggested that it's a good idea to not make
your entire customer base reliant on two puny servers somewhere.
I find this obvious.
-- Niels.
--
The idle mind is the devil's playground
