[90818] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: h.gtld-servers.net offline...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (william(at)elan.net)
Thu Jun 15 11:48:47 2006
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 08:48:07 -0700 (PDT)
From: "william(at)elan.net" <william@elan.net>
To: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@verizonbusiness.com>
Cc: Will Hargrave <will@harg.net>,
Joe Abley <jabley@ca.afilias.info>, NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0606151509390.19686@marvin.argfrp.us.uu.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Thu, 15 Jun 2006, Christopher L. Morrow wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Jun 2006, Will Hargrave wrote:
>>
>> Joe Abley wrote:
>>> I think you're mistaken about the server being off-line, since I can see
>>> it just fine from many places. The RIPE NCC dnsmon tool can also see it
>>> from its various probes:
>> I did (and do) check on multiple ASs that I run and asked a few others to
>> check, also checked looking glasses and so on.
>
> So, out of curiousity, i loss of 1 of 13 gtld servers important? I believe
> (though I could be mistaken) that these are actually anycast as well. I
> think dropping even 2-3 of the servers probably wouldn't affect overall
> performance would it? won't bind pick the 'best' place to ask regardless
> and stick/prefer that over 'slow' servers?
I think he was right to report it here - its operational issue with very
large TLD. But it is certainly nothing to seriously worry about as dns
compensates for such problems.
--
William Leibzon
Elan Networks
william@elan.net
