IP failover/migration question.

Tue Jun 27 16:15:17 UTC 2006

On 6/27/06, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu <Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 14:51:30 BST, Andy Davidson said:
> > Popular web browsers running on popular desktop operating systems
> > also display extra-long dns cache time 'bugs'.
>
> A well known fact, which leads right into your next comment...
>
> > 24 hours + outage whilst stale dns disappears will never do in
> > internet retail.
>
> And yet, with 90% of the net implementing the "will never do" scenario,
> we manage to get a lot of internet retail done anyhow.  I'm obviously going
> to need a *lot* more caffeine to sort through that conundrum....
>

Could you imagine slashdot, amazon or google going down for 24 hours?
I think there would be panic in the streets.

Uptime might not matter for small hosts that do mom and pop websites
or so-called "beta" blog-toys, but every time Level3 takes a dump,
it's my wallet that feels the pain. It's actually a rather frustrating
situation for people who aren't big enough to justify a /19 and an
AS#, but require geographically dispersed locations answering on the
same IP(s).