On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Jared Mauch wrote: : ultradns uses the power of anycast to have these ips that appear : to be on close subnets in geographyically diverse locations. Oh, that's brilliant. How nice of them to defeat the concept of redundancy by limiting me to only two of their servers for a gTLD. VeriSign might be doing some loathsome things lately, but at least my named has several more servers than just two to choose from. : could you provide some more technical details, other than : your postulations that they have two machines on : network-wise close subnets and that is the problem? I tracerouted to both IPs from two different locations in the USA; both took the same route before hitting !H from an ultradns.com rDNS machine. And both servers for that route were completely unresponsive from both tried locations during the outage period. -- -- Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org> <tv@pobox.com>