North American Network Operators Group
Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical

Re: register.com down sev0?

  • From: Jim Popovitch
  • Date: Thu Oct 26 00:27:15 2006
  • Domainkey-signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Received:Subject:From:To:In-Reply-To:References:Content-Type:Date:Message-Id:Mime-Version:X-Mailer:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=qWYE7jvXGAZp5/qc73+CnTsfR8NzZ/O6ZuipOKrof3+cCfSUwSurv+G/NmyNr/3a+12wmkBzsxNwL/YLdQrd/j0CMIk+YYpewtlJfXMsnUsTaETUizvYsjgAdBPwaFZPI5pZnugYFtCXx5DIpr5dMz3zPNp8Vej4OAbRpmR8dEk= ;
On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 18:41 -0700, Matt Ghali wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Oct 2006, [email protected] wrote:
> 
> > I'm seeing *.register.com down (including ns*) from everywhere. Just a
> > heads-up.
> 
> I'll take your word on exhaustively checking every possible 
> address. BTW, do you mean nameservers down, webservers down, or 
> something else? Did the Internet break?
> 
> > Would be interesting to see the RFO for that one, including the
> > "why we didn't have any DNS servers offsite
> 
> They colo in more than a half-dozen facilities around the world.
> 
> > or used anycast to at least limit amount of damage".
> 
> I also have information from a pretty good source that they actually 
> do quite a bit of anycast.

There are two sides to rcom, the mom&pop side (aka register.com) and the
partner side (Rconnection, for folks with ~25+ domains registered).   On
the mom&pop side they don't have (as far as I am concerned) a highly
redundant and distributed DNS system.  That opinion is based on a few
hours of research abt 2 years ago.  Over on the partner side they
outsource the DNS systems for their customers to eNom, which does use a
highly redundant and distributed anycast setup.  I haven't seen any
problems wrt DNS for my systems today (eNom via rcom), so I can only
presume the OP was referring to the mom&pop side of rcom.

-Jim P.