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.