Microsoft spokesperson blames ICANN
Bill Woodcock
woody at zocalo.net
Thu Jan 25 04:49:10 UTC 2001
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Henry Yen wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 10:17:19AM -0500, Richard A. Steenbergen wrote:
> > Super-redundant DNS hosting would make a good product. Akamai maybe?
>
> seems to me if a company bought a dedicated server in a couple of
> dozen of the largest hosting sites, that might be enough.
> you could run dns, remote network monitoring, traffic stats, whatever.
>
> does anyone out there know of such a service?
That's what Nominum's GNS service is. It's hosting some cc-tlds and
whatnot at the moment, although they haven't started selling it to smaller
customers yet. http://www.nominum.com/GNS/index.html No details on the
site, but David Conrad or Paul Vixie or I can tell you more about it.
Basically it's a global network of redundant pairs of heterogenous
nameservers (Solaris on Netra UltraSparc and NetBSD on IBM Netfinity x86)
with IP Anycast so you always get the nearest pair. For example:
MAE-West Looking Glass Results
Tracing the route to gns1.nominum.net (198.133.199.1)
1 mae-west.above.net (198.32.136.31) 0 msec 0 msec 4 msec
2 core1-core2-oc3-2.sjc6.above.net (209.133.31.177) [AS 6461] 0 msec 4
3 pao1-sjc6-oc12.pao1.above.net (207.126.96.54) [AS 6461] 4 msec 0 msec
4 64.124.11.252.nominum.com (64.124.11.252) [AS 6461] 0 msec 0 msec 4
5 gns1.nominum.net (198.133.199.1) [AS 17204] 4 msec 0 msec 0 msec
MAE-East Looking Glass Results
Tracing the route to gns1.nominum.net (198.133.199.1)
1 iad1-core4-pos1-0.atlas.icix.net (165.117.52.186) 4 msec 0 msec 0 msec
2 dca6-core2-pos1-3.atlas.icix.net (165.117.63.5) 0 msec 4 msec 0 msec
3 dca6-core3-pos7-0.atlas.icix.net (165.117.48.110) 0 msec 4 msec 0 msec
4 above-digex-oc3.iad.above.net (216.200.127.113) 0 msec 0 msec 4 msec
5 core5-core3-oc48.iad1.above.net (208.185.0.150) [AS 6461] 0 msec 4
6 core2-iad1-oc48.iad5.above.net (216.200.127.14) [AS 6461] 0 msec 4
7 above-gw.nominum.com (216.200.105.54) [AS 6461] 4 msec 4 msec 0 msec
8 gns1.nominum.net (198.133.199.1) [AS 17204] 4 msec 4 msec 0 msec
Both of those traces are running through AboveNet, but locations are BGP
transit multi-homed and peer with a lot of providers, and since it's
stateless UDP transactions, all the fail-over is transparent anyway.
-Bill
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