[outages] 4.2.2.x DNS?

[Patrick W. Gilmore]

On May 11, 2009, at 4:36 PM, ChrisSerafin wrote:

> Which is why everyone I know uses them, and they have to be the  
> single biggest self inflicted point of failure on the net!

If by 'self inflicted' you mean "I used their resources without asking  
or permission, and now they took those resources away making me fail",  
then we agree.

BTW, setting up anycast NSes is trivial.  And Jay knows this. :)

-- 
TTFN,
patrick



> Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
>> ----- "Scott Berkman" <scott at sberkman.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Also while these servers have been around for some time and are  
>>> great
>>> to use in a pinch or for testing, they are not officially  
>>> supported servers
>>> and are not what Level 3 would ever give a direct customer to use,  
>>> so you
>>> should generally avoid using them for anything production,  
>>> especially without
>>> other resolvers in your list.
>>>
>>
>> Configuring anycast isn't the easiest thing to do; if they're *not*  
>> "officially supported" even for L3 customers (which, happily, I  
>> am), then why
>> *do* the still operate them?  Cause they have the coolest IP  
>> addresses on the Internet?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> -- jra
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