JW> Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2004 11:22:34 -0400 JW> From: Jeff Wasilko JW> On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 06:45:44AM -0700, Bill Woodcock wrote: JW> > JW> > Uh, how much additional down-time did you want? Rolling JW> > the clock back a decade isn't going to make things JW> > _better_. JW> JW> Why do you say that? JW> JW> .com and .net seem to work just fine without the extreme JW> reliance on 2 anycasted servers (i.e. they are serving up 13 JW> different NS records). "One anycast implementation is having trouble, therefore anycast must be inherently bad" is hardly good logic. Something I forgot to add to my anycast ramblings the other evening: Say one has ns1.domain.tld and ns2.domain.tld both anycasted. Assuming pods have two machines, set your MEDs[*] such that ns1 prefers server "A" and ns2 prefers server "B". This helps queries destined for different NSes hit different machines. [*] Or whatever knob you use. JW> I realize .com/.net may be using anycast as well, but they've JW> managed to engineer a solution that is stable. I don't think gtld-servers.net uses anycast; someone correct me if I'm wrong. F-root != gtld-servers.net. Eddy -- EverQuick Internet - http://www.everquick.net/ A division of Brotsman & Dreger, Inc. - http://www.brotsman.com/ Bandwidth, consulting, e-commerce, hosting, and network building Phone: +1 785 865 5885 Lawrence and [inter]national Phone: +1 316 794 8922 Wichita _________________________________________________________________ DO NOT send mail to the following addresses: davidc@brics.com -*- jfconmaapaq@intc.net -*- sam@everquick.net Sending mail to spambait addresses is a great way to get blocked.