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Re: .ORG problems this evening

  • From: just me
  • Date: Thu Sep 18 14:01:51 2003

On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Todd Vierling wrote:

  BGP has no way to know that an internal network problem occurred.  If
  someone mistakenly tripped over a network cable that disconnected DNS
  clusters from a router, how would the router know to drop anycast
  advertisements?

  (Sure, you could run zebra on the cluster.  But what about if the name
  server SEGVs?  There's a lot of possible scenarios....)


I can assure you, this is a solved problem.


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