[80672] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Google DNS problems?!?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (aljuhani)
Sun May 8 14:37:45 2005
From: "aljuhani" <info@riyadmail.com>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Sun, 8 May 2005 21:37:13 +0300
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 8 May 2005, at 21:13, Andy Davidson wrote:
> gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com is at least two machines, but much more
> likely to be at least two clusters of machines ... :
>
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com. 232 IN A 64.233.185.27
> gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com. 232 IN A 64.233.185.114
>
>
> .. load-balanced in some way. One MX record doesn't mean one machine
> and no load-balancing by any means.
Yes you are right .. perhaps I did not put my point right when I mentioned
load balancing, I was trying to see the affect of DNS outage on Gmail
Services.
-aljuhani
