Re: .ORG problems this evening

["Christopher L. Morrow" <chris () UU NET>]

On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Christopher L. Morrow wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Todd Vierling wrote:
>
> > It makes me wonder how UltraDNS got a contract to manage the domain on all
> > of two nameservers hosted on the same subnet, given that they were supposed
> > to have deployed "geographically diverse" (or something like that) servers.
> > But then, we know ICANN smokes the crack liberally at times....
>
> Just because they hosts are on the same subnet and are apparently behind
> the same end device for you doesn't make them non-geographically diverse
> if they are really anycast pods, does it? It really just means one anycast
> pod was down for a time :(
>
> It is one of the things that anycast makes difficult though :(
> Troubleshooting anycast from the outside is a bear.

Oh, and 'same subnet' doesn't mean 'same ethernet' all auth dns servers in
198.6.1.0/24 aren't on one ethernet, though it'd sure make MY life easier
if they were :)