Re: DNS Reliability

[George William Herbert <george.herbert () gmail com>]

On Sep 12, 2013, at 3:39 PM, Randy Bush <randy () psg com> wrote:

> > we're already outside our operating envelope
>
> not really.  just some folk seem not to understand things such as udp
> datagrams and the dns protocols.
>
> randy

Statistically, UDP sometimes arrives after an internet wide round trip.  Honest!

The worry is bimodal.

Most small sites, two or three servers, stop worrying.

Most medium sites, watch your server load and run external monitoring.

Most big sites are not sufficiently paranoid / redundant here.


-george william herbert


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