Re: .ORG problems this evening

[David Lesher <wb8foz () nrk com>]

Speaking on Deep Background, the Press Secretary whispered:
> : I think you'll find most people on the list would disagree with you
> : on this point.  Many ISP's run anycast for customer facing DNS
> : servers, and I'll bet if you ask the first reason why isn't because
> : they provide faster service, or distribute load, but because the
> : average customer only wants one or two IP's to put in his DNS config,
> : and gets real annoyed when they don't work.

And/or, the networking stack may accept 3,4{...}50 DNS addresses,
but only really looks at the first.....




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