Re: Alternative to BGP-4 for multihoming?

["Gary E. Miller" <gem () rellim com>]

Yo All!

On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Randy Bush wrote:

> > a DNS oriented approach can be feasible in many situations.
>
> yup.  unfortunately the hack is not a good net citizen (some folk don't
> appreciate packets thrown at their servers), and some versions are not
> very accurate (as the server for foo.bar may be quite net.far from the
> host foo.bar).

I have DNS servers in Singapore and Germany for hosts in California
(and vice versa).

I do this so the next time NorCal has a major power outage, or Taiwan
has an earthquake, that I do not lose my DNS in major sections or
internet space!

Checking the path to my DNS servers tells you NOTHING about the
path to my hosts.

RGDS
GARY
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