Is multihoming hard? [was: DNS amplification]

Sun Mar 24 04:13:05 UTC 2013

On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 07:47:12PM -0700, Kyle Creyts wrote:
> You do realize that there are quite a few people (home broadband
> subscribers?) who just "go do something else" when their internet goes
> down, right?

[...]

> Will they really demand ubiquitous, unabridged connectivity?
> 
> When?

Probably around the time their phone, TV, books, shopping, and *life* are
all delivered over that connectivity.  Especially if they don't have any
meaningful local storage or processing, as everything has been delegated to
"the cloud".

In practice, however, I suspect that we as providers will just get a whole
lot better at providing connectivity, rather than have everyone work out how
to do fully-diverse BGP from their homes.

- Matt