.ORG problems this evening

Thu Sep 18 17:41:41 UTC 2003

On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Todd Vierling wrote:

  BGP has no way to know that an internal network problem occurred.  If
  someone mistakenly tripped over a network cable that disconnected DNS
  clusters from a router, how would the router know to drop anycast
  advertisements?

  (Sure, you could run zebra on the cluster.  But what about if the name
  server SEGVs?  There's a lot of possible scenarios....)

I can assure you, this is a solved problem.

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