[79728] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: New Outage Hits Comcast Subscribers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher L. Morrow)
Thu Apr 14 15:19:17 2005
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 19:17:26 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@mci.com>
In-reply-to: <1aca7a2bb570583ee28544588d03392e@cmu.edu>
To: Peter John Hill <peterjhill@cmu.edu>
Cc: Daniel Senie <dts@senie.com>, nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Peter John Hill wrote:
>
> Do you understand anycast? Do you understand how different operating
> systems react to failures of configured dns servers?
>
> You really need to look into anycast and see why it is used. Perhaps
> the comcast people are as naive as you about dns... Check out:
> http://www.net.cmu.edu/pres/anycast/
>
is attacking people necessary? I think Daniel's point was: "Perhaps
anycast isn't te only answer"
Perhaps it's not even appropriate for comcast's
network/design/pop/hub/area/infrastructure... Don't get me, or I think
Daniel, wrong, anycast is fun, but it's not for everyone. The main goal
for comcast should be stability, regardless of how they implement that,
eh?
