Re: h.gtld-servers.net offline...

["Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow () verizonbusiness com>]

On Thu, 15 Jun 2006, william(at)elan.net wrote:

> 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.

 Ooops, sorry, I didn't mean to harangue Will for reporting it, I was
asking if it was in fact not a big deal because the system has
compensation methods in place to deal with even 2-4 device outages.

sorry for the confusion.