Re: History of 4.2.2.2. What's the story?

["Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick () ianai net>]

On Feb 14, 2010, at 5:43 PM, Mark Andrews wrote:
> In message <10BE7B64-46FF-46D8-A428-268897413EB4 () hopcount ca>, Joe Abley writes
> :
> > On 2010-02-14, at 17:17, Mark Andrews wrote:
> >
> > > I don't care what internal routing tricks are used, they are still
> > > under the *one* external route and as such subject to single points
> > > of failure and as such don't have enough independence.
> >
> > Are you asserting architectural control over what Level3 decide to do =
> > with their own servers, Mark? :-)
>
> No.  The reason for multiple nameservers is to remove single points
> of failures.  Using three consecutive addresses doesn't remove
> single points of failure in the routing system.
>
> > If their goal is distribute a service for the benefit of their own =
> > customers, then keeping all anycast nodes associated with that service =
> > on-net seems entirely sensible.
>
> Which only helps if *all* customers of those servers are also on net.

All _customers_ are.

People using a service which was not announced or support are not customers.

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TTFN,
patrick