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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Alternative to BGP-4 for multihoming?
Yo All! On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Randy Bush wrote: > > a DNS oriented approach can be feasible in many situations. > > yup. unfortunately the hack is not a good net citizen (some folk don't > appreciate packets thrown at their servers), and some versions are not > very accurate (as the server for foo.bar may be quite net.far from the > host foo.bar). I have DNS servers in Singapore and Germany for hosts in California (and vice versa). I do this so the next time NorCal has a major power outage, or Taiwan has an earthquake, that I do not lose my DNS in major sections or internet space! Checking the path to my DNS servers tells you NOTHING about the path to my hosts. RGDS GARY --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gary E. Miller Rellim 20340 Empire Ave, Suite E-3, Bend, OR 97701 [email protected] Tel:+1(541)382-8588 Fax: +1(541)382-8676
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