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Re: large organization nameservers sending icmp packets to dns servers.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Mon Aug 6 16:50:23 2007

To: Matthew Crocker <matthew@crocker.com>
Cc: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>, Leigh Porter <leigh.porter@ukbroadband.com>,
        Drew Weaver <drew.weaver@thenap.com>,
        "'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 06 Aug 2007 16:11:36 EDT."
             <91950559-F40E-4370-8AC1-707F93BFDB4A@crocker.com>
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 16:43:15 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


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On Mon, 06 Aug 2007 16:11:36 EDT, Matthew Crocker said:

> But you could,  it isn't hard to dump a BGP view into a box from a  
> border router and use that map to determine the proper DNS records to  
> return.

It's harder than it looks, given the number of people who pop up on this list
and ask how to get BGP to Do The Right Thing when 2 paths are the same length
but vastly differing in bandwidth, number-of-actual-hops, and/or latency....

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