[80068] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Slashdot: Providers Ignoring DNS TTL?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dean Anderson)
Fri Apr 22 23:20:57 2005
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 23:20:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: Dean Anderson <dean@av8.com>
To: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <B2135F58-CC28-4ECC-877C-1B4938FAA040@ianai.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
>
> On Apr 20, 2005, at 3:29 PM, Dean Anderson wrote:
>
> >> Or don't. No one here cares if you do. Reality trumps lab tests.
> >
> > "Reality" for the last ten years has been that no one did either
> > PPLB or
> > TCP DNS. That reality is changing. It'll probably start to change
> > faster,
> > sooner. Then, users will start to notice the problems.
>
> People have been using TCP applications on anycast for at least a
> decade, as I mentioned before. Since DNS responses tend to be very
> short lived TCP session, it seems to me that if it works for other
> applications (e.g. HTTP), it should work for DNS.
Its funny how I give you TWO conditions, and you ignore one of them. I'll
try to use little tiny baby words:
TCP Anycast does NOT work with PPLB (Per - packet - load - balancing)
Say it slowly several times.
> Either way, reality still trumps lab tests, or mailing lists posts.
> Since it has worked, and continues to work, in _THE REAL WORLD_ for
> TCP applications much longer lived than DNS, I suggest that your
> assertion that "users will start to notice the problems" is
> incorrect. Of course, time will tell which of us is correct.
>
> Maybe I'm insane. Or maybe you are. Although I think time has
> already told which of us is....
Yes, indeed, it has. I've been vindicated on a number of issues on a
number of subjects. You?
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