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Re: ISP network design of non-authoritative caches
- From: Alex Bligh
- Date: Sun Nov 18 05:23:02 2001
--On Saturday, 17 November, 2001 4:48 AM -0500 Sean Donelan
<sean@donelan.com> wrote:
We know this isn't good engineering practice, because another national
ISP with millions of subscribers configured their network the same way,
and experienced a multi-hour service disruption affecting most of their
users a couple of years ago when an error blocked access to their two
caching-only, name servers.
You mean there are national ISPs out there, who have exactly 2
caching nameservers, as opposed to configure their clients with
2 IP addresses (perhaps always the same 2) which perform name
resolution? Wow. Is this some sort of retro fashion?
--
Alex Bligh
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