h.gtld-servers.net offline...

Thu Jun 15 15:48:07 UTC 2006

On Thu, 15 Jun 2006, Christopher L. Morrow wrote:

> On Thu, 15 Jun 2006, Will Hargrave wrote:
>>
>> Joe Abley wrote:
>>> I think you're mistaken about the server being off-line, since I can see
>>> it just fine from many places. The RIPE NCC dnsmon tool can also see it
>>> from its various probes:
>> I did (and do) check on multiple ASs that I run and asked a few others to
>> check, also checked looking glasses and so on.
>
> So, out of curiousity, i loss of 1 of 13 gtld servers important? I believe
> (though I could be mistaken) that these are actually anycast as well. I
> think dropping even 2-3 of the servers probably wouldn't affect overall
> performance would it? won't bind pick the 'best' place to ask regardless
> and stick/prefer that over 'slow' servers?

I think he was right to report it here - its operational issue with very 
large TLD. But it is certainly nothing to seriously worry about as dns
compensates for such problems.

-- 
William Leibzon
Elan Networks
william at elan.net