How common is lack of DNS server diversity?

John Payne john at sackheads.org
Sat Jan 27 13:33:29 UTC 2001


On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 08:17:00AM -0500, Shawn McMahon wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 11:17:06PM -0400, Thomas Kernen wrote:
> > 
> > And what happens if the 4.0.0.0/8 route is flapped from the
> > routing table? No more DNS. So you still want route diversity
> 
> Then it probably doesn't matter if you resolve their DNS, because you won't be
> getting to any of their services anyway.

Only if all of their services are in 4.0.0.0/8  What if they're providing 
DNS services to customers who are not in 4.0.0.0/8 space, and who's route
hasn't flapped?

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