On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 09:58:20AM +0200, Hank Nussbacher wrote:
Love this quote from Verisign: "We tested Anycast for about a year...to monitor its behavior," Silva says. "These are important servers, and we didn't want to make any rash decisions about deploying it." -- Barney Wolff http://www.databus.com/bwresume.pdf I'm available by contract or FT, in the NYC metro area or via the 'Net.
It is a little bit surreal - its not like anycast is some weird, new, or revolutionary technology. BGP is surely not a black art to the folks at Verisign - and little is required to do anycast, other than some minor routing configuration. Two possible solutions - Verisign is so big that institutional paralysis has set in, or, they now say this when asked about any configuration change. Either way, its unacceptable for them to be fulfilling their contract in this manner. -- Daniel Golding Network and Telecommunications Strategies Burton Group
From: Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com> Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 10:41:56 -0500 To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: 'Net security gets root-level boost
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 09:58:20AM +0200, Hank Nussbacher wrote:
Love this quote from Verisign:
"We tested Anycast for about a year...to monitor its behavior," Silva says. "These are important servers, and we didn't want to make any rash decisions about deploying it."
-- Barney Wolff http://www.databus.com/bwresume.pdf I'm available by contract or FT, in the NYC metro area or via the 'Net.
BW> Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 10:41:56 -0500 BW> From: Barney Wolff BW> On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 09:58:20AM +0200, Hank Nussbacher wrote: BW> > BW> > http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/1027ddos.html BW> BW> Love this quote from Verisign: BW> BW> "We tested Anycast for about a year...to monitor its behavior," BW> Silva says. "These are important servers, and we didn't want to BW> make any rash decisions about deploying it." *gag* And wildcard entries? Eddy -- Brotsman & Dreger, Inc. - EverQuick Internet Division 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 : blacklist@brics.com -or- alfra@intc.net -or- curbjmp@intc.net Sending mail to spambait addresses is a great way to get blocked.
BW> Love this quote from Verisign: BW> BW> "We tested Anycast for about a year...to monitor its behavior," BW> Silva says. "These are important servers, and we didn't want to BW> make any rash decisions about deploying it."
*gag*
And wildcard entries?
at the icann-secsac meeting in wdc on 15oct03, verisign said that they had turned the wildcard on several times, for a minute or two each time, without notice to the community, in order to ensure that there were no operational problems with it. so, apparently, testing is a way of life. (sadly for me personally, they didn't give dates or times that these tests had been run, nor did they say they would preannounce future tests, so nobody but verisign will be able to synchronize other measurements with these tests.) -- Paul Vixie
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