[NANOG] Did Youtube not pay their domain bill?

Steve Gibbard scg at gibbard.org
Mon May 5 10:25:51 UTC 2008


On Sun, 4 May 2008, Paul Vixie wrote:

> scg at gibbard.org (Steve Gibbard) writes:
>> The right solution is to design the anycast servers to be as sure as
>> possible that the route will go away when you want it gone, but to have
>> multiple non-interdependent anycast clouds in the NS records for each
>> zone.  If the local node in one cloud does fail improperly, something will
>> still be responding on the other cloud's IP address.
>
> the need for multiple independent anycast clouds is an RFC 2182 topic, but
> joe's innovation both in ISC-TN-2004-1 and in his earlier ISC-TN-2003-1 (see
> <http://www.isc.org/pubs/tn/isc-tn-2003-1.txt> is that if each anycast cluster
> is really several servers, each using OSPF ECMP, then you can lose a server
> and still have that cluster advertising the route upstream, and only when you
> lose all servers in a cluster will that route be withdrawn.

This is getting into minutia, but using multipath BGP will also accomplish 
this without having to get the route from OSPF to BGP.  This simplifies 
things a bit, and makes it safer to have the servers and routers under 
independent control.

But yes, Joe's ISC TechNote is an excellent document, and was a big help 
in figuring out how to set this up a few years ago.

-Steve




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