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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: C&W Peering
The loss of one or two (or as someone once calculated up to 40%) of the root servers has no or little effect. DNS is relatively robust, but not indestructible. However, no one outside of Cable & Wireless knows just how many networks or even which networks they eventually will cut-off. If C&W continues down the road of "de-peering", they may eventually cut off too much and cease to be a useful Internet provider. They may be a fine private network, but if you eliminate enough interconnectivity you aren't in the Internet any more. PSI was simply the most public case. But it doesn't appear that even Cable&Wireless's own sales force knows how bad C&W's network connectivity is going to get until after C&W finishes cutting off all the networks. There have been private reports that C&W sent out letters to several other providers. Will C&W still be a viable network after its management finishes? I don't know, I don't know if they know. They didn't seem to understand the effect cutting PSI would have. On Wed, 06 June 2001, Rafi Sadowsky wrote: > > Combine the loss of C.ROOT and the loss to E.ROOT for their loss of > > peering to NASA that happened last week and will happen again in a few > > weeks and they may have many issues related to this decision. > > Maybe I'm missing something obvious but I can't help wondering why given > the redundancy of the DNS system the loss of connectivity to 2 or 3 > root-servers should have a significant effect on an ISP who is otherwise > well connected and probably has a low latency/loss link to at least 2-3 of > the remaining root DNS servers > > Anyone care to enlighten me ? |