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Re: ftp.cisco.com broken ?

  • From: Suresh Ramasubramanian
  • Date: Tue Oct 07 14:22:23 2003 
Crist Clark [07/10/03 10:51 -0700]:
>   ftp.cisco.com name server rtp5-dirty-ddir.cisco.com
>   ftp.cisco.com name server sjce-dirty-ddir.cisco.com
> 
> Look at the query time. The other NS for ftp.cisco.com has a similar
> time for me. I didn't show it here, but the NS records for ftp.cisco.com
> have a 10s TTL too. And look at the name of the servers. Odd. Not exactly
> sure what's going on down the street with them.

Load balanced nameservers.  I assume these are all being DDoS'd as well, so
that the actual nameservers behind the hardware (cisco?) load balancer are
overloaded.

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