.ORG problems this evening

Thu Sep 18 18:09:23 UTC 2003

On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Keptin Komrade Dr. BobWrench III esq. wrote:

: And, I might add, in the case of a highly complex anycast application,
: you will need to check not only for correctness, but for timeliness.

All this still assumes that DNS should be trusting a single anycast location
as the only point of access (a situation which is the case for UltraDNS if
both records' routes go to the same place).

There's a reason DNS does not trust exactly one server if multiple ones are
provided:  too many things can and do go wrong.  What is going on right now
with .ORG is that DNS is being forced to believe that BGP knows what is best
for it, and it's already demonstrated that BGP did not always know best.

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