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Re: New Outage Hits Comcast Subscribers

  • From: John Payne
  • Date: Thu Apr 14 18:50:26 2005

On Apr 14, 2005, at 3:03 PM, Peter John Hill wrote:

Do you understand anycast? Do you understand how different operating systems react to failures of configured dns servers?
Do you? Relying 100% on anycast is MUCH worse than not deploying anycast at all. Spend some time thinking about various failure modes. (*sigh* just read NANOG archives if you want the short cut)

There is more than one solution to every problem. Don't fixate on anycast purely because your university hosts a couple of web pages on it.