[outages] ultradns issues? unable to resolve amazon.com

[David Conrad]

On Dec 23, 2009, at 7:52 PM, Seth Mattinen wrote:
> David Conrad wrote:
>> On Dec 23, 2009, at 5:41 PM, mhernand1 at comcast.net wrote:
>>> So I guess this means they can't claim they don't have outages?
>> Actually, no.  Given some folks indicated they weren't having issues, I suspect their use of anycast did what it was supposed to do in the face of a massive D(D)oS -- limit the damage to the network topologically nearest transmitting nodes.  Of course, I have no real details...
> 
> Meh, technicality. It acts like an outage to the geographic area affected, and it should be considered as such.

Perhaps, however I'm sure their marketing folks will be happy to use the technicality to justify their 100% uptime claims (like every other anycast DNS provider)...

Regards,
-drc