[80571] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [dnsop] DNS Anycast revisited (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Todd Vierling)
Tue May 3 22:23:08 2005
Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 22:21:45 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
From: Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org>
To: Mark Boolootian <booloo@ucsc.edu>
Cc: Dean Anderson <dean@av8.com>, Nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20050503215920.GB27974@root.ucsc.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Tue, 3 May 2005, Mark Boolootian wrote:
> > Note the nonsense about anycast being "completely coherent".
>
> If you check, I think you'll see that he actually said "ultradns's
> anycast for .ORG is completely coherent".
And last time I checked -- on this list, mind you -- it certainly was not.
Cf. people trying to run and hide, or lash out at me for complaining, when I
pointed out how two anycast routes pointing to the same dead node made the
.ORG anycast implementation unusable.
I reserve judgment on whether their implementation has been fixed in the
meantime; I have no evidence either way at the moment.
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-- Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org> <tv@pobox.com> <todd@vierling.name>
